[PDF] Technological Approaches For Climate Smart Agriculture eBook

Author : Pratap Bhattacharyya
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9811591326

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The books deals with the critical issues of climate change and its impact on agriculture and proposes climate smart agriculture as the probable solution to this issue. It discusses the impact of climate change and greenhouse gases emission on agriculture. It covers the strategies and management options of climate smart agriculture by including crop, water, soil, and energy management with examples and case studies. The subject matter has been presented in a very lucid language, containing real-time case studies, questions and few solved problems in specific chapters. The text is further enriched with simple line diagram and figures, chart, flow charts and tables. The book is primarily intended for researchers and professionals in the research areas of environmental science, agriculture, soil science, etc.

Author : Taneja, Garima
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The research outputs will be helpful in integrating farmers’ choices with government programs in the selected regions. The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) was selected because it is highly vulnerable to climate change, which may adversely affect the sustainability of the rice-wheat production system and the food security of the region. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can mitigate the negative impacts of climate change and improve the efficiency of the rice-wheat-based production system. CSA requires a complete package of practices to achieve the desired objectives, but adoption is largely dependent on farmers’ preferences and their capacity and WTP. To assess farmers’ choices and their WTP for the potential climate-smart technologies and other interventions, we used scoring and bidding protocols implemented through focus group meetings in two distinct regions of Eastern and Western IGP. We find that laser land leveling (LLL), crop insurance, and weather advisory services were the preferred interventions in Eastern IGP. Farmers preferred LLL, direct seeding, zero tillage, irrigation scheduling, and crop insurance in Western IGP. Through the bidding approach, farmers implicitly express their WTP for new technologies that could transform current agricultural practices into relatively low-carbon and more productive farming methods. But actual large-scale adoption of the preferred climate-smart technologies and other interventions would require access to funding as well as capacity building among technology promoters and users.

Author : V. Venkatramanan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2020-09-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9813298561

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This book provides essential insights into methods and practices of ‘Climate-smart Agriculture,’ which is driven by the principles of climate resilience and smart resource use in agricultural production. Climate-smart agriculture is a key policy instrument for achieving poverty eradication and a hunger-free world, as well as mitigating the effects of climate change. This book discusses in detail climate-smart agricultural technologies and practices that can reduce the vulnerability of agricultural systems, improve the livelihoods of farmers and other stakeholders, and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from crop production and livestock husbandry. The agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector produces roughly 10–12 gigatons of CO2-equivalent per year; therefore, sustainable practices for agriculture and related land use hold immense potential to mitigate climate change. The potential impacts of climate variability and climate change on agriculture are extensively documented and articulated, especially with regard to global and national environmental agendas that call for innovation, transformation and climate-resilient advances in agriculture. As the book demonstrates, climate-smart agriculture offers an excellent tool for boosting agricultural output to feed the growing global population; for reducing greenhouse gases emissions from agriculture and other land use; and for protecting agricultural production systems from the impending dangers of climate change.

Author : Wajid Nasim Jatoi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030794083

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This volume discusses the need to adopt Climate-Resilient Agriculture (CRA) practices to address the increasing global impact that climate change has on agricultural productivity and agriculture-dependent communities. This approach applies technological, policy and economic measures to achieve sustainable agricultural growth in the sectors of grain, fruit, vegetable, fiber, feed, livestock, fisheries and forestry, with the ultimate goal of adapting and building resilience to climate change. The book also uses GIS, crop modeling and remote sensing techniques for future climate resilience applications in agriculture, and covers pest control measures that avoid the use of pesticides to boost crop and livestock productivity for improved food security. The book will be of interest to researchers and students in environmental science, climate science, sustainability and agriculture, as well as policy makers and environmental organizations.

Author : Emily Woods
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,76 MB
Release : 2022-09-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781639891078

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Climate-smart agriculture is a practice that helps to guide activities needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate. It aims to sustainably increase agricultural productivity and incomes, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and adapt and build resilience to climate change. Climate-smart agriculture supplies the means to help economic agents from local to national and international levels identify agricultural strategies suitable to their local conditions. Landscape approach is adopted by climate smart agriculture which builds upon the principles of sustainable agriculture but goes beyond the narrow sectoral approaches, resulting in uncoordinated and competing land uses in order to integrate planning and management. This book discusses the fundamentals as well as modern approaches to climate-smart agriculture. While understanding the long-term perspectives of the topics, it makes an effort in highlighting their impact as a modern tool for the growth of the discipline. This book will provide comprehensive knowledge to the readers.

Author : Atanu Sarkar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319778781

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This volume is the first centralized source of technological and policy solutions for sustainable agriculture and food systems resilience in the face of climate change. The editors have compiled a comprehensive collection of the latest tested, replicable green technologies and approaches for food security, including smart crops and new agricultural paradigms, sustainable natural resources management, and strategies for risk assessment and governance. Studies from resource-constrained countries with vulnerable populations are emphasized, with contributions on multisector partnership from development professionals. Debates concerning access to climate-smart technologies, intellectual property rights, and international negotiations on technology transfer are also included. The editors are, respectively, a public health physician, a development professional and an environmental scientist. They bring their varied perspectives together to curate a holistic volume that will be useful for policy makers, scientists, community-based organizations, international organizations and researchers across the world.

Author : Harad Chuma Lungu
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN :

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Our world, as we know it, is changing faster than what scientific evidence has thus far predicted. Globally, we see an increased occurrence of indeterminate and unpredictable climatic events changing the daily livelihood of people across the planet. Particularly, such impacts include the frequent occurrences of droughts, the increased incidences of pests and diseases in farmer fields (such as the fall army worm in Zambia), the reduced annual rainfall and shrinking freshwater supplies, the increased number of forest wild fires, and the reduction of farmers℗þ yields. This calls for the need to adapt and build resilience. To support the adaptation and resilience agenda, various global initiatives have been undertaken and include the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Kyoto Protocol, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the Paris Agreement. Despite these global efforts, climate change impacts are still severe for developing countries like Zambia, experienced through erratic weather conditions leading to droughts and floods. This affects rural households more severely, where 70% of the Zambian population rely on agriculture (IAPRI, 2016). Between 1960 and 2003, Zambia℗þs average temperature rose by 1.3 degrees Celsius and rainfall decreased by 2.3 % each decade (Norimitsu, 2016). To counter these adverse effects, policies were formulated at national level to guide the national agenda on climate change, which includes the National Policy on Climate Change (NPCC) and the National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA). These policy initiatives have explicitly identified environmentally friendly agricultural and natural resource management practices, which include: (1) improved agronomic practices, (2) tillage and residual management, (3) agroforestry, and (4) increased participation of women, youth and children in climate change programmes, among others, as the main tools for improving smallholder productivity and building resilience strategies. These measures have shown to suit the Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) framework developed by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), which is governed by three clear objectives. The CSA objectives include: (i) sustainably increasing agriculture productivity and incomes; (ii) adapting to climate change; and (iii) reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A good volume of literature exists that has assessed the determinants and intensity of the adoption of conservation agricultural technology. However, few studies have examined the uptake of single technologies within the conservation agriculture package, and the low adoption rates of the entire conservation package confirms that farmers have a tendency to selectively pick technologies in the package. As a result of the selective picking of technologies, factors influencing the adoption of individual agricultural technologies and the interrelatedness of the adopted technologies, i.e. whether adopting one particular technology influences the decision to adopt another climate smart technology within a household, has remained subtle. Further, evidence on the impact of the demographic diversity of age is elusive in the CSA framework with regard to the adoption of crop rotation and an efficient stove design as individual technologies. In addition to determining factors influencing the adoption decision of crop rotation as an adaptation strategy and the efficient stove as a mitigation strategy to climate change, we test and analyse whom between the young and old farmer is most likely to adopt the efficient stove and/or the crop rotation technologies by testing hypotheses and observing the effect of the age variable. The reason for including the age variable is not only to assess the demographic impact, but also to guide the Zambian policymakers who are promoting youth participation in technology adoption. We further investigate the role of other demographic variables, such as family size, income and gender, in assessing their roles in the adoption decision. In addition to the econometric analyses, we use independent t-tests and tests of association to examine the statistical differences that exist amongst the respondents as they pertain to the adoption of the CSA technologies, i.e. the efficient cooking stove and crop rotation technologies. This study makes use of survey data collected by the International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD1 as part of their Smallholder Productivity Promotional Program (S3P). The data is cross-sectional in nature, consisting of a total of 182 smallholder farm households from the Northern Province of Zambia. They used random sampling techniques, based on a sampling frame provided by the Zambian Central Statistical Office (CSO). The first stage involved identifying the Primary Sampling Unit (PSU) and randomly selected Standard Enumeration Areas (SEAs) within the PSU in which the farm households belonged. The data was captured by administering survey questionnaires to the selected respondents. Further, Key Informant Interviews (KII) and Focused Group Discussions (FGDs) were held to enrich and verify the data collected. The model used in this study is the Recursive Bivariate Probit Model (RBPM), which checks for potential biases, such as non-randomness and self-selection. This was necessary, given the nature of the survey that captured data in an area where development programmes are promoted. Overall, the study revealed that, of the CSA technologies practised in the Northern Province of Zambia, crop rotation and the efficient cooking stove design were the most adopted technologies, followed by minimum tillage and residual retention. In this study, we focused on crop rotation and the efficient stove for analyses for the reason that higher rates of adoption are an indication of technology suitability and acceptance. The findings show that a greater number (55%) of the respondents indicated that they were aware of climate change and its consequences, and have since adopted measures to mitigate and build resilience. The study also identified variables found to have significant effects on influencing adoption decisions, such as various human and social capital characteristics; the wealth status of the respondent households; group formation as part of social capital, extension and awareness variables; and location and crops grown. Remarkably, the effect of age on the two technologies under investigation, i.e. the efficient cook stove and crop rotation, was mixed. For instance, the older farmers located in Mungwi and Kasama Districts were more likely to adopt the efficient stove, compared than those in Mbala District were, whereas no significant age effects were found on the crop rotation technology. We also show that those respondents who are exposed to the technologies through demonstration trials are less likely to adopt the technologies, indicating a reluctance to switch to the CSA technologies being promoted, i.e. crop rotation and the efficient stove. In terms of gender, the results show that women-headed households have statistically lower levels of income and smaller household sizes than their male counterparts do, and this can have profound effects on accessing and adopting the CSA technologies.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251077207

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"Climate-smart agriculture, forestry and fisheries (CSA), contributes to the achievement of sustainable development goals. It integrates the three dimensions of sustainable development (economic, social and environmental) by jointly addressing food security and climate challenges. It is composed of three main pillars: sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes; adapting and building resilience to climate change; reducing and/or removing greenhouse gases emissions, where possible. The purpose of the sourcebook is to further elaborate the concept of CSA and demonstrate its potential, as well as limitations. It aims to help decision makers at a number of levels (including political administrators and natural resource managers) to understand the different options that are available for planning, policies and investments and the practices that are suitable for making different agricultural sectors, landscapes and food systems more climate-smart. This sourcebook is a reference tool for planners, practitioners and policy makers working in agriculture, forestry and fisheries at national and subnational levels." -- Back cover.