1、Agriculture PracticeWhat climate-smart agriculture means for smallholder farmersMcKinsey research identified more than 30 measures that smallholder farmers can pursue to adapt to and mitigate climate change.February 2023by Chania Frost,Kartik Jayaram,and Gillian Pais pixelfusion3d/Getty ImagesWhat c

2、limate-smart agriculture means for smallholder farmersSmallholder farmers1 generate an estimated 32 percent of global greenhouse-gas(GHG)emissions from agriculture.2 They are also one of the populations most at risk from climate change.Our analysis shows that in three countriesIndia,Ethiopia,and Mex

3、iconearly 80 percent of all smallholder farmers could be affected by at least one climate hazard by 2050(Exhibit 1).Moreover,climate change will affect land suitability for crop production.For example,by 2050,India could lose 450,000 square kilometers of land currently suitable for rainfed rice cult

4、ivation(Exhibit 2).Stakeholders have focused on climate-smart agri-culture for the past two decades.Nonetheless,there is no clear road map for the types of mitigation and adaptation measures smallholder farmers can adopt and how to prioritize investments and efforts to support those measures.In this

5、 article,we try to fill this gap.Our work is informed by a geospatial analysis of climate risk in key smallholder markets;an extensive review of current technologies and tools that smallholder farmers can deploy to adapt to and mitigate climate change;and a prioritization of those measures based on

6、agroecological and farming systems in different countries.Identifying adaptation and mitigation measures that the worlds 510 million smallholder farmers can adopt is critical to the protection and support of their livelihoods in the face of climate-related hazards.3 They are also key to global food