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Table 2: Environmental benefits and adaptation potential of organic agricultureBog'liq 34. FS-Green-TechnologyTable 2: Environmental benefits and adaptation potential of organic agriculture
Source: Nadia El-Hage Scialabba and Maria Müller-Lindenlauf, “Organic agriculture and climate change”, Renewable Agriculture and
Food Systems
(2010), vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 158-169. Available from www.redagres.org/Organic-agric.pdf (accessed 06 March 2012).
Box 4: Climate-smart agriculture
FAO and the COP16 in 2010 have both recognized the future dilemma of feeding a climate-change ridden
world whose population is ever-increasing. Thus, they emphasized the need to transform the agricultural sector
from being part of the problem to being part of the solution, by making it ‘climate smart’. Climate smart means
agriculture that sustainably increases productivity and resilience against environmental pressures while at the
same time reducing greenhouse gas emissions or removing them from the atmosphere. The FAO stresses that
climate smart practices do not need to be newly invented in many cases, but that a variety of them already
exists that could be widely instilled in developing countries, where food production is bound to change due to
changing economic, environmental and social circumstances.
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Source: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific,
The Role of Trade and Investment in the Context of Track
4 (Turning Green into a Business Opportunity) and Track 5 (Low Carbon Economics) of the LC GG Roadmap for the Asia-Pacific Region
(Bangkok, Trade and Investment Division, 2011).
Country experience: Roadmap for the agriculture sector in the Republic of Korea
The Korean Government has already started adapting its agriculture sector in the face of a changing climate.
The adaptation strategy was charted in a roadmap for 2030 designed in three phases: short-term base build-up
phase (2010–2013), mid-term take-off phase (2014–2019) and long-term settlement phase (2020–2030). Each
phase covers seven categories, and a total of 19 adaptation measures listed below:
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R&D
– breeding, production technology development, base technology development, resource
management innovation and climate information system
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