GSCM's experienced and dedicated in-house team that assesses, selects and monitors investments in climate resilient agriculture (CRA) around the world.

 

What is Climate Resilient Agriculture? Climate-smart agriculture, forestry and fisheries is a strategy for sustainably ensuring food security in a growing population. GSCM also balances CRA investments to improve climate resilience. GSCM has additional, proprietary sustainability metrics and principles that guide our decision making process. Our metrics include:

 

• Sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and income

• Adapting to the effects of climate change to reduce the effects over time

• Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

 

Agroforestry systems are an important element of CRA. They include traditional and modern land-use systems where trees are managed together with crops and/or animal production systems. The tangible benefits of this include:

 

• Increased resilience to environmental hazards

• Higher yields for small and large scale farms

• Creation of a permanent soil cover that prevents erosion

• Minimisation of damage from flooding

• Building environments and soil structure that enhance water conservation