Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction

Hansen, James; Hellin, Jon; Rosenstock, Todd S.; Fisher, Eleanor; Cairns, Jill E.; Stirling, Clare M.; Lamanna, Christine; Etten, Jacob van; Rose, Alison; Campbell, Bruce M.

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2018.01.019

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“…According to Lowder et al, "small farms (less than 2 ha) operate about 12% and family farms about 75% of the world's agricultural land." This paper used two sources of information to select the priorities for action on adaptation and mitigation: (i) the work implemented as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security and (ii) a set of review papers that include priority setting analyses [10][11][12][13][14].…”

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“…Index insurance builds resilience and contributes to adaptation both by protecting farmers' assets in the face of major climate shocks, by promoting access to credit, and adoption of improved farm technologies and practices [10,[57][58][59]. Index insurance triggers payouts based on an index (e.g., rainfall, remote sensing) that is correlated with losses, rather than actual losses, eliminating costly farm visits to verify losses, reducing administration costs, lowering premiums, and providing more timely payments.…”

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“…For example, Ethiopia's Livelihoods Early Assessment and Protection (LEAP) program adds a layer of contingent finance, triggering additional funds to scale up its Productive Safety Net Program when a climate index indicates emerging drought [88,89]. In cases where agricultural production may not offer a realistic near-term pathway out of poverty, PSSN may allow poor smallholder and family farmers to build up sufficient assets to move out of poverty through improvements to their farming, or provide a level of security until growth in other sectors expands off-farm employment opportunities [10]. Whilst the primary purpose of such PSSN is to protect the food security and livelihood resilience of chronically vulnerable households against severe climate shocks, it has been shown that Ethiopia's PSSN, covering approximate 600,000 ha, has also resulted in a total reduction in net GHG emissions of 3.4 million Mg CO 2 e y −1 , which is approximately 1.5% of the emissions reductions in Ethiopia's NDC for the Paris Agreement, even though it did not form an integral part of that NDC [90].…”

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Human activities and their relation with land, through agriculture and forestry, are significantly impacting Earth system functioning. Specifically, agriculture has increasingly become a key sector for adaptation and mitigation initiatives that address climate change and help ensure food security for a growing global population. Climate change and agricultural outcomes influence our ability to reach targets for at least seven of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. By 2015, 103 nations had committed themselves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, while 102 countries had prioritized agriculture in their adaptation agenda. Adaptation and mitigation actions within agriculture still receive insufficient support across scales, from local to international level. This paper reviews a series of climate change adaptation and mitigation options that can support increased production, production efficiency and greater food security for 9 billion people by 2050. Climate-smart agriculture can help foster synergies between productivity, adaptation, and mitigation, although trade-offs may be equally apparent. This study highlights the importance of identifying and exploiting those synergies in the context of Nationally Determined Contributions. Finally, the paper points out that keeping global warming to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2100 requires going beyond the agriculture sector and exploring possibilities with respect to reduced emissions from deforestation, food loss, and waste, as well as from rethinking human diets.

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“…Random climate shocks, such as floods and drought, reduce assets and threaten livelihoods, intensifying households' vulnerability. 135 If agroforestry reduces the severity of such an event or even the perceptions of the event, such as when households in western Kenya that practice agroforestry had a reduced fear of flood and drought risk, 136 it could buffer against migration. As well as extreme events driving migration, slowly developing environmental change may also catalyze population movement.…”

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A Planetary Health Perspective on Agroforestry in Sub-Saharan Africa

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“…According to the data of Food Outlook [3], global food production in 2018 was estimated to be 9.751 billion tons, of which grain production reached 2.652 billion tons, an increase of 34.55% and 28.8%, respectively, compared with 7.247 billion tons and 2.059 billion tons in 2000 [4]. However, in recent years, since climate change, resource constraints, and environmental protection have had an increasing impact on food security, global food security is still facing considerable challenges [5][6][7]. According to World Food Security prospects and path of food security cooperation between the BRICS countries.…”

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Development and Prospect of Food Security Cooperation in the BRICS Countries

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In recent years, the international status of agriculture in the BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—has been continuously improved. In 2018, the gross agricultural production of the BRICS countries accounted for more than 50% of the world’s total. Further strengthening the developing cooperation of the BRICS countries is of great significance for ensuring global food security. Based on the data from FAOSTAT and UN Comtrade Database, this study builds a food self-sufficiency rate and food security cooperation potential index to quantitatively analyze the food security status, cooperation effectiveness, and future trends of the BRICS countries. The study finds that the overall food security of the BRICS countries is generally showing a trend of volatility and growth, with high rates for cereals and relatively low rates for fresh products. In the future, BRICS food security cooperation should be based on their own resource endowment and socioeconomic characteristics. The BRICS countries need to constantly improve the awareness of joint cooperation and action in the future, focusing on scientific and technological cooperation, information sharing, complementary advantages in trade, and improving the global competitiveness of products. With the help of agricultural science and technology, Brazil is growing as a strong export country of food products. Russia needs to increase the introduction of agricultural science and technology and foreign capital to give full play to its resource advantages. India can improve its food self-sufficiency faster by the construction of a BRICS Agricultural Research Platform. China makes full use of BRICS resources, actively promotes agricultural enterprises to go global, and constantly optimizes the food supply structure. South Africa maintains the advantages of fruit and vegetable industry and increases the introduction and promotion of agricultural science and technology to improve the domestic food production capacity.

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Climate risk management and rural poverty reduction

Cited by 199 publications

References 122 publications

Food and Earth Systems: Priorities for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Agriculture and Food Systems

Food and Earth Systems: Priorities for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Agriculture and Food Systems

A Planetary Health Perspective on Agroforestry in Sub-Saharan Africa

Development and Prospect of Food Security Cooperation in the BRICS Countries

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