What Is the Evidence Base for Climate-Smart Agriculture in East and Southern Africa? A Systematic Map

Rosenstock, Todd S.; Lamanna, Christine; Namoi, Nictor; Arslan, Aslıhan; Richards, Meryl

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“…To identify relevant literature associated to CSA, we combined the search terms "climat* smart*" OR "climat* friend*" with descriptors (or keywords) related to agricultural sector (see Supplementary Materials Table S1 for a complete list of search strings used for the review). For the scope of this study, we partly based our methods on the work of Rosenstock, et al [26]. In the study, we conceptualize agriculture as referring to crops, livestock, and fisheries sectors in the broadest sense, including soil/land and water management (see Table S1).…”

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“…Therefore, the objective of this paper is to explore specifically whether and how institutional perspectives are reflected in the existing CSA literature. This study aims enlarge the scope of the previous syntheses on CSA practices conducted by Rosenstock, et al [26] and to contribute to the broader debate about the potential role of institutions and institutional innovation in agricultural development in low-and middle-income regions. This is an issue which has only been investigated to a limited extent [27].…”

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“…An on-going systematic review is being conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of 73 promising farm-level technological management practices to achieve the CSA intended benefits and inform discourse on food, agriculture, and climate change [26]. This review targets CSA practices and technologies across five categories (agronomy, agroforestry, livestock, postharvest management, and energy systems) to assess their contributions to the three CSA pillars.…”

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Institutional Perspectives of Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Systematic Literature Review

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Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is increasingly seen as a promising approach to feed the growing world population under climate change. The review explored how institutional perspectives are reflected in the CSA literature. In total, 137 publications were analyzed using institutional analysis framework, of which 55.5% make specific reference to institutional dimensions. While the CSA concept encompasses three pillars (productivity, adaptation, and mitigation), the literature has hardly addressed them in an integrated way. The development status of study sites also seems to influence which pillars are promoted. Mitigation was predominantly addressed in high-income countries, while productivity and adaptation were priorities for middle and low-income countries. Interest in institutional aspects has been gradual in the CSA literature. It has largely focused on knowledge infrastructure, market structure, and hard institutional aspects. There has been less attention to understand whether investments in physical infrastructure and actors' interaction, or how historical, political, and social context may influence the uptake of CSA options. Rethinking the approach to promoting CSA technologies by integrating technology packages and institutional enabling factors can provide potential opportunities for effective scaling of CSA options.

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“…The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations proposed the climate-smart agriculture (CSA) concept, which has attracted international attention for its innovative use of technology in addressing agricultural challenges [ 1 , 2 ]. The objectives of CSA are threefold: sustainably increase food productivity, increase the adaptive capacity of farming systems, and increase climate change mitigation where possible [ 3 , 4 , 5 ]. Smart agriculture (SA) emphasizes the roles and applications of innovative technology in agricultural practices.…”

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Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Adoption of Smart Agriculture Technology in Taiwan

Chuang

Wang

Liou

2020

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Climate change and food security are critical topics in sustainable agricultural development. The climate-smart agriculture initiative proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has attracted international attention. Smart agriculture (SA) has since been recognized as an influential trend contributing to agricultural development. Therefore, encouraging farmers to adopt digital technologies and mobile devices in farming practices has become a policy priority worldwide. However, the literature on the psychological factors driving farmers’ intentions to adopt SA technologies remains limited. This study investigated how farmers’ knowledge and attitudes regarding SA affect their adoption of smart technologies in Taiwan. A total of 321 farmers participated in a survey in 2017 and 2018, and the data were used to construct an ordinary least squares regression model of SA adoption. This study provides a preliminary understanding of the relationship between psychological factors and innovation adoption of SA technologies in a small-scale farming economic context. The findings suggest that policymakers and research and development institutes should concentrate on improving market access to established and critical SA technologies.

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“…CSA is currently lively debated in this regard. Apart from the studies that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations directly or indirectly publishes (e.g., [43,[73][74][75]), which all show encouraging results, two recent documents screened in this review both assessed the impacts of Climate-Smart Agriculture on the resilience of agriculture and have shown positive results in terms of yields, the concentration of inputs, and resource use efficiency [76,77].…”

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How Can Sustainable Agriculture Increase Climate Resilience? A Systematic Review

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Moujabber

2020

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In the last few decades, a great deal has been written on the use of sustainable agriculture to improve the resilience of ecosystem services to climate change. However, no tangible and systematic evidence exists on how this agriculture would participate in alleviating impacts on vulnerable rural communities. This paper provides a narrative systematic review (SR) integrated with a bibliometric analysis and a concept network analysis to determine how, in this changing climate, sustainable agriculture can increase the resilience of agrosystems. Our search ranged from the date of the first relevant article until the end of 2018. The results generated demonstrated the following: (a) Only single practices and methods have been studied to assess the impacts on single ecosystem services; (b) Soil quality and health are considered a key indicator of sustainable agriculture; (c) Although the assessed practices and methods were shown to improve the biodiversity of agrosystems, which makes them more resilient to extreme climate events, we are still far from developing interdisciplinary and multidimensional agriculture that integrates all management aspects and generates a full range of ecosystem services. In conclusion, this study addressed the following recommendations for the scientific community and policymakers to orient future research strategies and efforts: (a) The integration of all agrosystem services into sustainable management using an ecosystem-based approach on a life-cycle basis using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method; (b) Improving the scientific understanding of traditional knowledge to facilitate greater synergy and further integration; (c) The unification of assessment methods and indicators for the quantification of impacts; (d) The creation of a platform to share, monitor, screen, and approve assessments and evaluations of sustainable agriculture by region.

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What Is the Evidence Base for Climate-Smart Agriculture in East and Southern Africa? A Systematic Map

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Institutional Perspectives of Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Systematic Literature Review

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How Can Sustainable Agriculture Increase Climate Resilience? A Systematic Review

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