Costs and effectiveness of climate change adaptation in agriculture: a systematic review from the NENA region

Chami, Daniel El; Trabucco, Antonio; Wong, T.; Monem, Mohamed Abdel; Mereu, Valentina

doi:10.1080/14693062.2021.1997703

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“…In Colombia, GM technologies have already reduced the application of insecticides and pesticides by 19 percent and have been especially effective in vulnerable, rural regions ( Klümper and Qaim, 2014 ; Brookes, 2022 ). In general, GM technology can be enacted over a smaller time period, at a smaller cost, than conventional methods ( El Chami et al, 2022 ; Woźniak-Gientka et al, 2022 ). In Colombian rural campuses like Utopía, GM methods can be integrated into the education of future agricultural leaders that can discuss, apply and analyze these solutions, in their local regions, where attention to new technologies is and will be especially important in the future and will help to preserve economic, ecological, social (i.e., cultural) resources.…”

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“…The use of new techniques within current, established systems can mitigate climate change to an extent ( Adam et al, 2020 ). However, some recent studies point out limitations: for example, applying soil conservation methods can take a significant number of years before yield profits are generated, if at all, which does not respond to the immediate needs of farmers ( Thierfelder et al, 2017 ; El Chami et al, 2022 ). Long implementations are also incompatible with current rapid shifts in regional climates caused by overall global warming ( Singh et al, 2017 ).…”

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Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia

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The security of Earth’s food systems is challenged by shifting regional climates. While agricultural processes are disrupted by climate change, they also play a large role in contributing to destabilizing greenhouse gases. Finding new strategies to increase yields while decreasing agricultural environmental impacts is essential. Tropical agriculture is particularly susceptible to climate change: local, smallholder farming, which provides a majority of the food supply, is high risk and has limited adaptation capacity. Rapid, inexpensive, intuitive solutions are needed, like the implementation of genetically modified (GM) crops. In the Latin American tropics, high awareness and acceptance of GM technologies, opportunities to test GM crops as part of local agricultural educations, and their known economic benefits, support their use. However, this is not all that is needed for the future of GM technologies in these areas: GM implementation must also consider environmental and social sustainability, which can be unique to a locality. Primarily from the perspective of its educators, the potential of a rural Colombian university in driving GM implementation is explored, including the role of this type of university in producing agricultural engineers who can innovate with GM to meet regionally-dependent environmental and cultural needs that could increase their sustainability.

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“…A narrative approach suits references with broad subject content and a disparate range of potential outcomes. It also can highlight, for stakeholders and decision-makers, existing knowledge gaps in the subject and areas suitable for targeting [ 24 , 25 , 30 ]. The review team exercised high care in interpreting records reporting mitigation and adaptation to climate change impacts across coffee agrosystems to avoid any source of bias.…”

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“…It is used to draw scientific conclusions reducing susceptibility to bias [ 23 ]. Recently, it has had several applications in agrosystems and climate change science [ 24 , 25 ]. Previous reviews have assessed the impacts and adaptation of climate variability and change on coffee production [ 21 , 26 , 27 , 28 ] and have indicated increasing interest in its climate-related risks.…”

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A Systematic Review on the Impacts of Climate Change on Coffee Agrosystems

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Mereu

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Coffee production is fragile, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports indicate that climate change (CC) will reduce worldwide yields on average and decrease coffee-suitable land by 2050. This article adopted the systematic review approach to provide an update of the literature available on the impacts of climate change on coffee production and other ecosystem services following the framework proposed by the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment. The review identified 148 records from literature considering the effects of climate change and climate variability on coffee production, covering countries mostly from three continents (America, Africa, and Asia). The current literature evaluates and analyses various climate change impacts on single services using qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Impacts have been classified and described according to different impact groups. However, available research products lacked important analytical functions on the precise relationships between the potential risks of CC on coffee farming systems and associated ecosystem services. Consequently, the manuscript recommends further work on ecosystem services and their interrelation to assess the impacts of climate change on coffee following the ecosystem services framework.

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“…An increased population and higher sensitivity to a changing climate further exacerbates the impacts of climate change on peoples’ lives and stresses the need for an accurate knowledge of how the climate has changed and is projected to continue to do so. This is needed for the development of adaptation and mitigation strategies for the infrastructure 46 , agriculture 63 and human health 64 . On the other hand, the usage of renewable energy sources in the MENA region has increased exponentially in the last few decades, in particular solar energy 65 , 66 a trend expected to further accelerate in the future.…”

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Recent and projected changes in climate patterns in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

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2024

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Observational and reanalysis datasets reveal a northward shift of the convective regions over northern Africa in summer and an eastward shift in winter in the last four decades, with the changes in the location and intensity of the thermal lows and subtropical highs also modulating the dust loading and cloud cover over the Middle East and North Africa region. A multi-model ensemble from ten models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project—sixth phase gives skillful simulations when compared to in-situ measurements and generally captures the trends in the ERA-5 data over the historical period. For the most extreme climate change scenario and towards the end of the twenty-first century, the subtropical highs are projected to migrate poleward by 1.5°, consistent with the projected expansion of the Hadley Cells, with a weakening of the tropical easterly jet in the summer by up to a third and a strengthening of the subtropical jet in winter typically by 10% except over the eastern Mediterranean where the storm track is projected to shift polewards. The length of the seasons is projected to remain about the same, suggesting the warming is likely to be felt uniformly throughout the year.

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Costs and effectiveness of climate change adaptation in agriculture: a systematic review from the NENA region

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Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia

Exploring the future of GM technology in sustainable local food systems in Colombia

A Systematic Review on the Impacts of Climate Change on Coffee Agrosystems

Recent and projected changes in climate patterns in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

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