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{{Climate initiative
|Name of initiative=Global Alliance For Climate-Smart Agriculture (GACSA)
|LPAA initiative=No
|NAZCA Initiative=No
|Website address=http://www.fao.org/gacsa/en/
|Starting year=2014
|Secretariat=GACSA Facilitation Unit hosted by FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153, Rome,  Italy, GACSA-Facilitation-Unit@fao.org
|Organisational structure=The SC serves as a representative body of Alliance members and the decision authority for approving an annual Program of Work and a budget for the Facilitation Unit.  Among other responsibilities the SC oversees the implementation of the programme of work and main activities of the Alliance, and provides guidance to the Facilitation Unit. For the first inception year (2015) of the alliance, all GACSA members may volunteer to be members of the GACSA Steering Committee.
|Geographical coverage=Global,North America,Asia and the Pacific,Latin America and The Caribbean,Africa,Western Europe,Eastern Europe
|Type of initiative=Political dialogue
|Primary function=Knowledge production and innovation including research and development (e.g. output of research paper or database)
|Secondary functions=Campaigning and awareness raising (e.g. output advocacy or awareness raising publication),Policy planning / Institutional policy and economic framework (e.g. output policy documents / workshops),Knowledge dissemination and exchange / Information and Networking (e.g. output databases / workshops / conference),Lobbying (e.g. output publication advocating a particular policy option / workshops),Training and education (e.g. training publications and workshops),Institutional capacity building (e.g. training publication / workshops / conferences)
|Name of lead organisation=Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
|Type of lead organisation=International organisation
|Location/Nationality of lead organisation=Italy
|LPAA Theme Transport=No
|LPAA Theme Agriculture=Yes
|LPAA Theme Forestry=No
|LPAA Theme Business=No
|LPAA Theme Financial institutions=No
|LPAA Theme Buildings=No
|LPAA Theme Industry=No
|LPAA Theme Waste=No
|LPAA Theme Cities and subnational governments=No
|LPAA Theme Short Term Pollutants=No
|LPAA Theme International maritime transport=No
|LPAA Theme Energy Supply=No
|LPAA Theme Fluorinated gases=No
|LPAA Theme Energy efficiency=No
|LPAA Theme Renewable energy=No
|LPAA Theme Supply chain emission reductions=No
|LPAA Theme Adaptation=No
|LPAA Theme Other=No
|LPAA Theme Resilience=No
|LPAA Theme Innovation=No
|LPAA Theme Energy Access and Efficiency=No
|LPAA Theme Private Finance=No
|Description=GACSA is an inclusive, voluntary and action-oriented multi-stakeholder platform on Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA)
|Goals=GACSAs vision is to improve food security, nutrition and resilience in the face of climate change. GACSA aims to catalyse and help create transformational partnerships to encourage actions that reflect an integrated approach to the three pillars of CSA. 

GACSA works towards three aspirational outcomes to:

Improve farmers’ agricultural productivity and incomes in a sustainable way;
Build farmers’ resilience to extreme weather and changing climate;
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with agriculture, when possible.
|Activities=Within the Alliance there are three initial action groups on:

Knowledge: Increasing and promoting knowledge, research, and development into technologies, practices, and policy approaches for CSA.
Investment: Improving the effectiveness of public and private investments that support the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture.
Enabling environments: Integrating climate-smart agriculture into policy, strategies and planning at regional, national, and local levels and across landscapes.

The objectives of the action groups is to provide the services and address knowledge gaps required by members and other entities to undertake their CSA up-scaling actions and interventions.
|Participants=As of August 2016, GACSA hosts 144 Members including:

Governments from developed and developing countries;
Research and academic institutions;
Farmer’s organizations;
Businesses;
Non Governmental Organization’s (NGOs);
Inter-governmental organizations (IGOs).
|Have only national states as participators=No
|How to join your initiative=GACSA is a voluntary platform open to governments, international and regional organizations, institutions, civil society, farmers’ organizations and businesses who agree with its vision and its Framework Document. Individuals cannot become members of GACSA.
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