Climate-smart agriculture for the Kyrgyz Republic

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is agriculture that has been transformed and reoriented to support development and ensure food security in the face of climate change. CSA aims to tackle three main objectives: sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and farmers’ income, adapting and building resilience to climate change, and reducing and or removing greenhouse gas emissions in line with national development priorities.

This CSA country profile describes the risks posed by climate change to agriculture in the Kyrgyz Republic, discusses the potential of CSA to attenuate those risks, identifies factors that can influence the adoption of CSA practices, and highlights potential entry points for investment in CSA at scale.