A Holistic Approach to Address Food Security Risks and Climate Change Adaptation—Insights from Burundi

Abstract

This chapter presents an approach to combine improved land governance and tenure security with agricultural practices suitable to adapt farming to changing climatic conditions (climate smart agriculture) in order to tackle food security risks in fragile contexts. The core argument presented is that functioning land governance needs to be at the heart of sustainable approaches for addressing food security risks in climatically challenged settings. The chapter describes two tested approaches, one for creating inclusive and functional land tenure systems and one for peer-learning systems that enable sustainable agricultural practices and explains how these can be integrated. The contribution draws on experience and evidence from Burundi.