thus it has the potential to facilitate smallholder farmers adaptation to climate change and their becoming more resilient to the increase in climate extremes while potentially reducing ghg emissions an example of the use of the eba approach is in uganda where various projects implemented agroforestry conservation agriculture integrated nutrient management and the establishment of woodlots the result of these projects were an increase in productivity by conserving soil and water as well as the use of leguminous cover crops further planting costs were reduced by because of conservation techniques