Position Paper – read full original here
A detailed analysis of current farming policies in the context of “Climate Smart Agriculture” and the need for a radical rethink on attitudes to smallholder agriculture and relevant climate change adaptation practices.
Among the recommendations:
- Any bilateral and multi-lateral climate finance flows should support bottom up, community-driven climate adaptation solutions.
- Climate funds should not support technologies and approaches that increase the dependence of family and small-scale farmers on costly inputs.
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The funds should prioritise support projects in line with principles of agroecology and food sovereignty.
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Climate change mitigation initiatives in the agriculture sector should focus primarily on transforming and phasing-out the industrial agriculture system.
- National mitigation and adaptation should respect a list of criteria to support transformational change towards agroecology, ensuring food security and sovereignty, restoring ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as defending human rights.