Climate Ready Agriculture: Agriculture in Changing Climate.........

Present day agriculture is facing with twin challenges. Feeding the world with increasing population is one challenge. Anthropogenic climate change on the other hand make more hard to feed the expected nine billion people (by 2050)(Food insecurity). Its the responsibility of Agronomists, crop breeders, and other scholars to develop climate smart solutions such as climate ready crop varieties which could perform better with changing climate and climate smart options to face other challenges.

Monday, October 8, 2018

Beyond climate-smart agriculture

Agriculture is considered to be “climate-smart” when it contributes to increasing food security, adaptation and mitigation in a sustainable way. This new concept now dominates current discussions in agricultural development because of its capacity to unite the agendas of the agriculture, development and climate change communities under one brand.

This paper first discusses the History of the concept of climate change

Then it explain what CSA encompasses

Thirdly it explains what CSA fails to encompasses

Finally it discusses what should we do now in research?

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The paper on Beyond climate-smart agriculture: toward safe operating spaces for global food systems

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