Operationalizing climate-smart agricultural landscapes: the case of a tea- producing landscape in Kericho, Kenya

World Agroforestry Centre

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Description: Effective implementation of CSA often requires an integrated landscape management strategy that synergistically combines a diversity of land uses and economic activities. The Kericho landscape was a useful case for considering how local stakeholders could play an active role in assessing and defining a holistic programme of CSA investment within a priority landscape. Research and planning tools, such as the one developed for this study, provide a framework for landscape stakeholders to identify the concrete steps that can move them toward a climate-smart landscape. Such tools should continue to be refined, and, as more landscapes begin to plan and implement climate-smart activities, experiences from using them should be documented systematically and shared widely to support the mainstream practice of climate-smart agriculture.