Concern and climate smart agriculture

Last updated:

30 October 2014

Language:

For Concern, it is not just about promoting improvements in crop yields (or even reducing the seasonal variability of these) – we also want to see a stronger link between Climate Smart Agriculture and nutritional outcomes.

Concern has worked with the communities in Dessie-Zuria in the northern part of Ethiopia. Photo: Petterik Wiggers / Concern Worldwide.

Concern's approach to Climate Smart Agriculture is informed by our understanding of extreme poverty – recognising that extremely poor people often have few assets, gain poor returns on those assets, experience wide-ranging structural inequalities and are exposed to risks and vulnerabilities in many shapes and forms