Messages and Way Forward

Abstract

The CSA has three pillars. Those are “sustainable food security,” “system-resilience and adaptation,” and “mitigation to climate change.” It is a powerful concept that directly focuses on agriculture and climate change nexus with location-specific flexibilities. Therefore, the CSA is a triple win for farmers/producers, investors, and consumers without regrets, trade-offs, and losses. So, CSA could easily fitted for a vast range of agendas even conflicting with each other. However, the broad political will, efficient implementation capacity; enough financial commitment from GCF and private sectors are necessary for promoting CSA as a tool to be adapted for sustainable agriculture. Specifically, the future needs of CSA are large shifts in land-use patterns and crop choices; mapping of vulnerable zones and climate-hazard-risk; change in research aptitude; safe operating spaces in the context of climate change; transformational changes; integration of private and public sector financing; changing the policy-portfolios; and the changes in socio-cultural and political outlooks.