Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change

Vervoort, Joost; Thornton, Philip K.; Kristjanson, Patti; Förch, Wiebke; Ericksen, Polly J.; Kok, Kasper; Ingram, John; Herrero, Mario; Palazzo, Amanda; Helfgott, Ariella; Wilkinson, A.J.; Havlík, Petr; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Jost, Chris

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.03.001

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“…Innovations generated by agricultural research are communicated by extension agents to farmers. This approach may place too much emphasis on traditional socioeconomic variables and ignore how other social factors (for example, networks, gender, social norms, values, climate-change attitudes), and uncertainty may be implicated by practices that are ostensibly consistent with CSA priorities (for example, adoption of new crops and cultivars or changes in N fertilization) [135][136][137].…”

Section: Livestock Management and Animal Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

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Background: Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) addresses the challenge of meeting the growing demand for food, fibre and fuel, despite the changing climate and fewer opportunities for agricultural expansion on additional lands. CSA focuses on contributing to economic development, poverty reduction and food security; maintaining and enhancing the productivity and resilience of natural and agricultural ecosystem functions, thus building natural capital; and reducing trade-offs involved in meeting these goals. Current gaps in knowledge, work within CSA, and agendas for interdisciplinary research and science-based actions identified at the 2013 Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture (Davis, CA, USA) are described here within three themes: (1) farm and food systems, (2) landscape and regional issues and (3) institutional and policy aspects. The first two themes comprise crop physiology and genetics, mitigation and adaptation for livestock and agriculture, barriers to adoption of CSA practices, climate risk management and energy and biofuels (theme 1); and modelling adaptation and uncertainty, achieving multifunctionality, food and fishery systems, forest biodiversity and ecosystem services, rural migration from climate change and metrics (theme 2). Theme 3 comprises designing research that bridges disciplines, integrating stakeholder input to directly link science, action and governance.

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Section: Livestock Management and Animal Healthmentioning

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Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

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“…changes in temperature, rainfall and frequency of climatic hazards compared to the past) and demography (i.e. changes in the number and distribution of people on earth) (Khan et al 2014;Reilly and Willenbockel 2010;Beddington et al 2012;Vervoort et al 2014). The studies also show a strong tendency to highlight policy and governance as key drivers; indeed policy and governance are increasingly considered not just as part of the solution but also as part of the problem.…”

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Food Insecurity: The Future Challenge

Bourgeois

2016

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“…This remains a serious challenge. The CSVs address this issue by indepth analysis of each technology in present climates and also assess their effectiveness in rapidly changing future socioeconomic scenarios (Vervoort et al 2014). Modeling is therefore a very important tool in CSVs for supplementing technology evaluation done in on-farm research platforms.…”

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The climate-smart village approach: framework of an integrative strategy for scaling up adaptation options in agriculture

Aggarwal¹,

Jarvis²,

Campbell³

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ABSTRACT. Increasing weather risks threaten agricultural production systems and food security across the world. Maintaining agricultural growth while minimizing climate shocks is crucial to building a resilient food production system and meeting developmental goals in vulnerable countries. Experts have proposed several technological, institutional, and policy interventions to help farmers adapt to current and future weather variability and to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This paper presents the climate-smart village (CSV) approach as a means of performing agricultural research for development that robustly tests technological and institutional options for dealing with climatic variability and climate change in agriculture using participatory methods. It aims to scale up and scale out the appropriate options and draw out lessons for policy makers from local to global levels. The approach incorporates evaluation of climate-smart technologies, practices, services, and processes relevant to local climatic risk management and identifies opportunities for maximizing adaptation gains from synergies across different interventions and recognizing potential maladaptation and trade-offs. It ensures that these are aligned with local knowledge and link into development plans. This paper describes early results in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to illustrate different examples of the CSV approach in diverse agroecological settings. Results from initial studies indicate that the CSV approach has a high potential for scaling out promising climate-smart agricultural technologies, practices, and services. Climate analog studies indicate that the lessons learned at the CSV sites would be relevant to adaptation planning in a large part of global agricultural land even under scenarios of climate change. Key barriers and opportunities for further work are also discussed.

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Challenges to scenario-guided adaptive action on food security under climate change

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Cited by 173 publications

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Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

Climate-smart agriculture global research agenda: scientific basis for action

Food Insecurity: The Future Challenge

The climate-smart village approach: framework of an integrative strategy for scaling up adaptation options in agriculture

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