Climate Resilient Agriculture

Climate resilient agriculture practices can help reduce hunger and poverty in the face of
climate change

Smart agriculture for environment conservation
& poverty reduction

With harsh climate change conditions, LEC has integrated environmental conversation in all key programmes within the organization. Communities are being encouraged to plant trees and also sensitize rural based communities on harsh climatic resistant agricultural practices. Rain harvesting programmes have been integrated in our programming to help communities harvest and secure rain water that usually go into waste during rainy seasons.

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LEC community climate resilience program

LEC community organization climate resilience program

Facts and figures about
climate smart agriculture

Climate change can reduce productivity

Climate change can reduce agricultural income by 15-25 per cent; it is high time that rationale of climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) is valued and implemented more rigorously.
Climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) is an approach that includes sustainably using existing natural resources through crop and livestock production systems to achieve long-term higher productivity and farm incomes under climate variabilities.

Smart use of water resource

Water-smart technologies like a furrow-irrigated raised bed, micro-irrigation, rainwater harvesting structure, cover-crop method, greenhouse, laser land levelling, reuse wastewater, deficit irrigation and drainage management can support farmers to decrease the effect of variations of climate.

Benefits of climate resilient agriculture

Increased productivity

Produce more and better food to improve nutrition security and boost incomes, especially of 75 percent of the world’s poor who live in rural areas and mainly rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.

Enhanced resilience

Reduce vulnerability to drought, pests, diseases and other climate-related risks and shocks; and improve capacity to adapt and grow in the face of longer-term stresses like shortened seasons and erratic weather patterns.