EIP-AGRI Brochure Climate-smart agriculture: Solutions for resilient farming and forestry

The realities of a changing climate are increasingly affecting European farming and forestry. Climate-smart agriculture is an approach that can help farmers and foresters build resilience and adapt to the effects of climate change, and increase productivity and incomes in a sustainable way.

Climate-smart practices can focus on ways to reduce emissions in livestock production, to reduce farm inputs (such as fuels, energy, pesticides, mineral fertilisers) for more resource-efficiency, or to keep carbon stored in the soil. Making farming systems more diverse can also make them more resilient in the face of climate change.

This brochure highlights a number of EIP-AGRI Operational Groups and other innovative projects in which farmers and foresters are developing and testing climate-smart practices that address local challenges, thus helping to build a more resilient European agriculture and forestry.