CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

The global climate affects everyone and everything on the planet. As the climate changes, significant impacts will be felt by all Americans, including farmers, ranchers, private forest landowners, and their surrounding communities. Producers and land managers are experiencing these impacts firsthand on their operations through shifting weather patterns and increasingly frequent and severe storms, floods, drought, and wildfire.

Farmers, ranchers and forest landowners have an important role to play in the nation’s climate solutions, regardless of the size, location, or type of their operation. Climate-smart agriculture and forestry is an integrated approach that enables farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners to respond to climate change by reducing or removing greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation) and adapting and building resilience (adaptation), while sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes. With support from NRCS, producers and land managers can engage in climate-smart agriculture and forestry to adapt to the impacts of climate change and contribute to solutions that help to limit future climate change.

Read the full publication linked here.

Click here or image below to find the mitigation activity list for FY2024.