CSA PILLAR 1

CSA PILLAR 2

CSA PILLAR 3

The 3 pillars of
Climate-Smart Agriculture
and the
Sustainable Development Goals
Synergies & Trade-offs

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Sustainably increase Adapt and build resilience Reduce and/or remove
agricultural productivity of people and food greenhouse gas emissions,
and incomes systems to climate change where possible
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Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) has strong potential to contribute

to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
A critical precondition for realizing this scope is to identify
potential synergies and trade-offs between the 3 pillars
and 5 implementation steps of CSA and the SDGs.
These provide entry points for targeted CSA
planning, so as to enhance synergies and
reduce trade-offs.

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Strengthening Enhancing CSA on the ground
national and local financing implementing practices at field level
institutions options

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Supporting
enabling policy
frameworks

Inform / Expand Inform / Expand

Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)

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Expanding the evidence base
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CSA STEP 2

CSA STEP 3

CSA STEP 4

CSA STEP 5

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The 5 implementation steps of
Climate-Smart Agriculture
and the
Sustainable Development Goals
Synergies & Trade-offs