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Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) aims to achieve three outcomes (triple wins): i) sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes; ii) adapting agricultural systems and building resilience to climate change; and iii) reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It offers an appropriate strategic framework for responding to the challenges. Meeting these challenges requires technologies, innovations and management practices (TIMPs) to build resilience and adaption to climate change.

TIMPs exist within the National Agricultural Research System (KALRO, KEFRI, KIRDI, KMFRI, agricultural universities and others), developed by scientists in these institutions, which can respond to CSA needs of the country. Some of these TIMPs require further testing, prior to their up-scaling for adoption in the target project counties.

The Project: The Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project (KCSAP) is a Government of Kenya (GoK) project, supported by the World Bank, under the State Department for Crops Development in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries & Irrigation (MoALF&I). The Project Development Objective (PDO) is “To increase agricultural productivity and build resilience to climate change risks in targeted smallholder farming and pastoral communities in Kenya.” The project focuses primarily on: