2. Literature review and conceptual framework
CSA can involve the implementation of a wide array of technologies,
practices or actions, including for example water management,
intercropping, agroforestry, integrated crop-livestock
management approaches or the integration of renewable energy
systems (Taneja et al., 2014). Although CSA includes a multiplicity
of technological, policy and institutional approaches, the focus of
this research concerns CSA technological innovations. In this paper
we define these as hardware, software and org-ware that help solve
climate induced problems in agriculture, including increased agricultural
productivity, reduced vulnerability of agro-food systems to
climate impacts and the reduction of GHG emissions (or enhanced
GHG emission storage) (McCarthy, 2001).