Myanmar Climate Smart Agriculture Strategy 2015.

Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategy (CSA) seeks to optimize the benefits and minimize the negative trade-offs across food security, agricultural development and climate change adaptation and mitigation. The key elements of CSA include food security by increasing agricultural productivity, resilience of agricultural systems through adaptation, and mitigation by reducing GHG emission or enhancing carbon sequestration and managing interfaces with other land use management. The CSA encompasses the development of technical, policy and investment conditions to achieve a sustainable agricultural development for food security and nutrition through climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture. Myanmar has committed to apply CSA to contribute to regional food security and environmental protection during the 24th ASEAN Summit on May 10, 2014. The MOAI and the MLFRD have laid down polices, objectives and strategies for the development of the agriculture sector, putting priority on food security and rural poverty reduction. Climate change affects men and women differently. Likewise, they each respond to climate change differently. Training and extension education regarding CSA technologies should enhance women’s participation. The development of gender-informed climate policy is required.