Discussion: Food security and sustainable food systems: The role of soil

Zanella, Matheus Alves; Rahmanian, Maryam; Perch, Leisa; Callenius, Carolin; Rubio, J. L.; Vuningoma, Faustin; Rist, Stephan; Mapfumo, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.iswcr.2015.06.001

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“…Scholars have proposed changes in farming systems to increase land-based mitigation from the agricultural sector, where soil carbon has highest returns to food security (e.g. Zanella et al, 2015). Furthermore, the IPCC assessment reports provide a discussion on important overlaps and non-linear interactions between food, water, land, and climate systems (Klein et al, 2007;Smith et al, 2007).…”

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Climate-smart agriculture: perspectives and framings

2017

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This paper offers a systematic analysis of the concepts and contexts that frame the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) discourse in the academic and policy literature. Documents (n = 113) related to CSA and published in peer-reviewed journals, books, working papers, and scientific reports from 2004 to 2016 were reviewed. Three key trends emerged from the analysis: studies are biased towards global policy agendas; research focuses on scientific and technical issues; and the integration of mitigation, adaptation, and food security (the three pillars of CSA) is becoming a popular scholarly solution. Findings suggest that CSA is a fairly new concept used to describe a range of adaptation and mitigation practices without a specific set of criteria. Although CSA is often framed around the three pillars, the underlying issues constructing the discourse differ at global, developing, and developed country scales. Although there is increasing research on developing countries, particularly in relation to how CSA can transform smallholder agriculture, there is a paucity of research documenting the experiences from developed countries. The findings suggest that research on CSA needs to move beyond solely focussing on scientific approaches and only in certain geographical contexts. If CSA is to be applicable for farmers across the globe, then cross-disciplinary research that is underpinned by broad socio-economic and political contexts is essential to understand how differences in narratives might affect implementation on-theground in both developing and developed countries. Policy relevanceAlthough policy makers are increasingly supportive of the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approach, the rhetoric has largely been developed on the basis of scientific and technical arguments. The political implications of varying perspectives have resulted in a growing divide between how developing and developed countries frame solutions to the impacts of climate change on agriculture under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Different framings are part of the explanation for why the scope of CSA is being rethought, with the scientific community redirecting attention to seeking a separate work programme under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The current policy framing of CSA will give no new policy direction unless it grounds itself in the smallholder farmer and civil society contexts. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: What Are Climate-smart Practices and Technologies?mentioning

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Climate-smart agriculture: perspectives and framings

2017

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“…Más allá de cuál índice usar, tanto el manejo del suelo, como su evaluación bajo un enfoque sostenible, deben concebirse como actividades permanentes en el tiempo, de tal manera que se logren beneficios a largo plazo y se reduzca paulatinamente su vulnerabilidad al desgaste (Ayerdirs 2017). En este sentido, el manejo sostenible del suelo genera un impacto positivo a la sociedad si se toma en cuenta que existe una estrecha relación entre la calidad del suelo y la seguridad alimentaria (Zanella et al 2015); así mismo, constituye respuesta a los efectos adversos del cambio climático global (Zhang et al 2017).…”

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Sustainably soil management in agroecological transition processes

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2021

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La agricultura industrial en gran escala promueve una explotación intensiva del suelo que puede comprometer su sostenibilidad en el tiempo. Como respuesta, la Agroecología propone una serie de prácticas que devuelven al suelo su capacidad productiva. Esta investigación empleó un marco de análisis sobre sostenibilidad, para identificar indicadores que relacionen el estado y manejo del suelo con las dimensiones física, química y biológica. Fueron seleccionados nueve indicadores de sostenibilidad aplicados en veintitrés fincas con distintas trayectorias en el proceso de transición agroecológica localizadas en Subachoque, Cundinamarca, Colombia. Los sistemas productivos con cinco o más años en transición obtuvieron los valores máximos para ocho de los indicadores evaluados. Se evidencia cómo la agroecología genera cambios en la sostenibilidad del manejo del suelo, asegurando características edáficas apropiadas para mantener su capacidad productiva a través del tiempo

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“…Scholars have proposed changes in farming systems to increase land-based mitigation from the agricultural sector, where soil carbon has highest returns to food security (e.g. Zanella et al 2015). Furthermore, the IPCC assessment reports provide a discussion on important overlaps and non-linear interactions between food, water, land and climate systems (Klein et al 2007;).…”

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Climate-smart agriculture in practice: insights from smallholder farmers, Timor-Leste and the Philippines, Southeast Asia

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The climate challenges confronting agriculture are multiple, interconnected and multi-scaled.Agriculture is a source of increasing greenhouse gas emissions, but it is also vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adopting resilient approaches in the agricultural industry can help to contribute to both climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation. Climate-smart agriculture has emerged as a solution to address the multiple challenges of climate change and food security by sustainably increasing productivity, enhancing resilience and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To date, there is limited scholarly evidence on what constitutes climate-smart agriculture, and how it is framed globally and practiced by smallholder farming communities. This research helps to bridge this gap by analysing the international discourse around climate-smart agriculture, and providing local empirical evidence derived from smallholder farming communities in the Philippines and TimorLeste.At the broad level, this research aims to identify how climate-smart agriculture within communitybased adaptation programs is contributing to the integration of mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change. Drawing from political ecology and climate change (adaptation and mitigation sciences) theories, the research explains how socio-institutional factors -inequality, unequal power relations and social injustice -influence climate-smart agriculture. The theoretical arguments are illustrated with empirical case studies of smallholder farmers and civil society organisations in the two case studies. Using mixed qualitative methods and descriptive analysis of over 150 semistructured interviews, focus group discussions and participant observation, the research examines climate-smart agriculture practices across three broad categories: vulnerability of smallholder farmers (socioeconomic factors), synergistic relationships (adaptation, mitigation and food security) and governance (socio-institutional determinants).This research argues that mitigation and adaptation interventions are climate-smart for smallholder farmers when they directly address local climate risks, support a combination of adaptation, food security and livelihood strategies, and empower at-risk and marginalised populations. Results indicate that climate-smart agriculture in the Philippines and Timor-Leste are characterised and influenced by multiple socio-institutional factors. The increasing burden of loss and damage as a result of extreme climate events subject women to migration, increased discrimination, loss of customary rights to land, resource poverty and food insecurity. In terms of farming practices implemented by smallholder farmers, most adaptation actions were found to have corresponding positive mitigation, food security and livelihood co-benefits. At the community level, climate-smart interventions are highly locationspecific, technically rigorous, involve knowledge-intensive processes, and are influenced by the finance and capacities of local farming com...

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Discussion: Food security and sustainable food systems: The role of soil

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Climate-smart agriculture: perspectives and framings

Climate-smart agriculture: perspectives and framings

Sustainably soil management in agroecological transition processes

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