Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies for Environmental Management: The Intersection of Sustainability, Resilience, Wellbeing and Development

Venkatramanan, V.; Shah, Shachi

doi:10.1007/978-981-13-2772-8_2

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“…To this end, the Food and Agricultural Organization in partnership with government and non-governmental bodies have launched key innovative initiatives and agendas including Climate Smart Agriculture (Venkatramanan and Shah, 2019), Regenerative Agriculture (Duncan, 2016), Agricultural intensification (Matson et al, 1997;Tscharntke et al, 2005), Precision farming (Auernhammer, 2001), and Circular Economy (Kirchherr et al, 2017) to drive the food system toward sustainability in the rural and periurban space. These agendas have promoted soil health, improved biodiversity, reduced cost in farm inputs, and, more importantly, delivered nutritious farm produce.…”

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Response-to-Failure Analysis of Global Food System Initiatives: A Resilience Perspective

Agyemang

Kwofie

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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International food system initiatives have led the efforts to combat the threats to global food security resulting from the failure of the current food systems. This study set out to investigate and assess the contributions of global food system initiatives in tackling the food system challenges. In assessing the food system initiatives, we develop a three-step methodology for Food System Initiative (FSI) selection and then conduct a qualitative evaluation using relevant indicators based on food system failure narratives. Furthermore, the authors synthesize present literature in the context of the extent to which coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has compounded food system challenges and, together with the response-to-failure analysis, recreate a resilient transformational framework, which will be an invaluable tool to FSI during and after the COVID-19 era, and guarantee we build back better. The findings show that while considerable effort is being made in addressing food system failures, the current COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenges and would require a paradigm shift not only in the implementation of conventional food system initiatives but also in the role of food system actors. The food system resilience framework presented provides useful pathway in expanding the understanding of the role of all key stakeholders and in identifying tipping points for building the desired resilience moving forward.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Response-to-Failure Analysis of Global Food System Initiatives: A Resilience Perspective

Agyemang

Kwofie

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…There are several proposed approaches to address the increased need for food and feed. These include shifts to more nutrient-efficient diets [121], strategic intensification and technological improvement [29], restoration and maintenance of soil fertility and stability [122] and enhancing resilience in the face of global change [5,123]. These and other innovative approaches will be needed to sustain the contribution of soils to the provision of food and feed into the future.…”

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“…Several soil management approaches have been proposed to address the increased need for food. These include shifts to more nutrient-efficient diets [121], strategic intensification and technological improvements [29], restoration and maintenance of soil fertility and stability [122] and enhancing resilience in the face of climate change [5,123]. Feed crops currently account for almost 40% of global agricultural production, including the use of some of the most fertile soils in the world.…”

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The role of soil in the contribution of food and feed

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Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Soils play a critical role in the production of food and feed for a growing global population. Here, we review global patterns in soil characteristics, agricultural production and the fate of embedded soil nutrients. Nitrogen- and organic-rich soils supported the highest crop yields, yet the efficiency of nutrient utilization was concentrated in regions with lower crop productivity and lower rates of chemical fertilizer inputs. Globally, soil resources were concentrated in animal feed, resulting in large inefficiencies in nutrient utilization and losses from the food system. Intercontinental transport of soil-derived nutrients displaced millions of tonnes of nitrogen and phosphorus annually, much of which was ultimately concentrated in urban waste streams. Approximately 40% of the global agricultural land area was in small farms providing over 50% of the world's food and feed needs but yield gaps and economic constraints limit the ability to intensify production on these lands. To better use and protect soil resources in the global food system, policies and actions should encourage shifts to more nutrient-efficient diets, strategic intensification and technological improvement, restoration and maintenance of soil fertility and stability, and enhanced resilience in the face of global change. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The role of soils in delivering Nature's Contributions to People’.

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“…As regards the GHG emissions, crop residue burning contributes about 0.027 GtCO 2 eq. So, adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices (Venkatramanan and Shah, 2019) and conservation agriculture practices which entail the incorporation of crop stubbles into the soil in addition to sequestering carbon (SDG 13-Climate action), increase the soil organic carbon content through enhanced activity of soil organisms (SDG 15-Life on land). The crop residues with wide 'Carbon/Nitrogen' ratio are food resources to the soil micro-organisms and the straw incorporation into the soil increases the metabolic activity of and diversity of soil microorganisms (SDG 15).…”

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“…The focus of agricultural bioeconomy is on the "production, utilisation and conservation of biological resources". In the sphere of agriculture production, the aim is to increase agricultural production through sustainable intensification (Garnett et al, 2013;Campbell et al, 2014); multi-functional agriculture (Jordan (Lal, 2005;Lal and Pimentel, 2007); climate-smart agriculture (Venkatramanan and Shah, 2019); and conservation agriculture. These strategies, in effect, aim to sustain crop production, use and re-use agricultural resources sustainably, mitigate the GHG emissions and adapt the agricultural production system to changing climate.…”

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Nexus Between Crop Residue Burning, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Goals Over North-Western India

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The crop residue burning in India particularly North-western India is responsible for air pollution episodes and public health concerns; greenhouse gases emissions and radiation imbalance; and declining soil organic matter and soil productivity. The objectives of this paper are to estimate the crop residue burning and emissions from crop residue burning, to recommend interventions in crop residue management and to propose a crop residue management-bioeconomy model incorporating strategies to sustainably manage the crop residues through interventions that enable waste valorization, food and nutritional security, farmers’ livelihood and sustainable agricultural production system. A national inventory on crop residue burning including the pollutant species was prepared using the IPCC methodology. The crop types included for the estimation are cereals, pulses, oilseeds, sugarcane, cotton, jute and Mesta. The total amount of crop residues generated and burned for the year 2017–18 was estimated at 516 million tonnes and 116 million tonnes respectively. It is estimated that 116.3 Tg of crop residues burning released about 176.1 Tg of CO2, 10 Tg of CO, 313.9 Gg of CH4, 8.14 Gg of N2O, 151.14 Gg of NH3, 813.8 Gg of NMVOC, 453.4 Gg of PM2.5, and 935.9 Gg of PM10. The emission estimates can be a proxy to prepare the national level inventory of air pollutant species from crop residue burning. The crop residue management (CRM) demands a transition from the traditional zone of CRM to bioeconomy zone of CRM, wherein the interventions aim at the sustainability of agroecosystem. The proposed bioeconomy model has a four-pronged strategy that includes smart agriculture practices, waste bioeconomy involving aspirational principles of bioeconomy, capacity building of stakeholders’ and proactive government policy. Sustainable agricultural bioeconomy provides ample opportunities to reduce crop residue burning, increase farmers’ livelihood and decarbonize the agricultural production. India’s efforts and policies can provide lessons for other agricultural regions having similar environmental constraints.

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Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies for Environmental Management: The Intersection of Sustainability, Resilience, Wellbeing and Development

Cited by 47 publications

References 24 publications

Response-to-Failure Analysis of Global Food System Initiatives: A Resilience Perspective

Response-to-Failure Analysis of Global Food System Initiatives: A Resilience Perspective

The role of soil in the contribution of food and feed

Nexus Between Crop Residue Burning, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development Goals Over North-Western India

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