for instance local farmers and communities have shown a great capacity to innovate in response to weather and other shocks there are thousands of successful experiences of localized enhanced pest and weed management water efficiency and biodiversity including stories of highly successful innovation in the most challenging circumstances characterized by a poor natural resource base and widespread poverty traditional practices such as lowtillage farming crop rotation and interplanting water harvesting and recycling waterefficient cropping and integrated pest management have also proved their relevance to increasing productivity and ensuring environmental sustainability adaptation measures involving organic soil nutrient enhancement and other ecologically sound methods an approach popularly known as climatesmart agriculture can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions