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Climate smart pest management (CSPM) sets up integrated pest management practices within climate smart agriculture to reduce pest induced crop losses, strengthen farm and land scape resilience to climate change and decrease greenhouse gas intensity per unit of food. The effective CSPM needed to coordinate action across farmers, extension departments, research policy and finance sectors. Development of toolbox of preventive agroecological practices, monitoring and forecasting or resilient varieties and an enabling environment are required that reward adoption. This present study enclosed the need for CSPM practices, key benefits, core components and toolbox, and innovative technologies that affect CSPM. This study also provides an insight into policies that enable environment protection. In conclusion, CSPM reframes pest management as an essential, cross sectoral component of climate smart agriculture that simultaneously advances food security, adaptation and mitigation. Scaling CSPM requires political leadership, investment in surveillance and forecasting, breeding for resilient cultivars, finance mechanisms and gender responsive extension.