Climate Change And Agricultural Policy Options

Author : De Pinto, Alessandro,Wiebe, Keith D.,Rosegrant, Mark W.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780896292444

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Climate change and agricultural policy options by De Pinto, Alessandro,Wiebe, Keith D.,Rosegrant, Mark W. Pdf

Climate change is a significant and growing threat to food security—already affecting vulnerable populations in many developing countries, and expected to affect ever more people in more places, unless action is taken beginning today. Current scenarios for business-as-usual farming under climate change project growing food security challenges by 2050. Worst hit will be underdeveloped regions of the world where food insecurity is already a problem and populations are vulnerable to shocks (Rosegrant et al. 2014). Improvements in agricultural technology and management are expected to increase food security, but if we do not address climate change, climate-related losses in crop and livestock productivity will reduce those gains (Lobell and Gourdji 2012). In this challenging environment, countries will need to contend with shifts in which crops they can best produce, significant changes in global prices, and change in countries’ comparative advantages. New analytical tools that allow policy makers and decision makers to integrate data from the global to the local level offer an important opportunity for countries to identify the most effective ways to address climate change. As the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) gets underway and the role of agriculture as a key element in reducing emissions is widely recognized, countries can use these tools to identify locally appropriate policies that will reduce the impact of climate change on food security over the long term.

Author : David Blandford,Katharine Hassapoyannes
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813235410

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Global Challenges For Future Food And Agricultural Policies by David Blandford,Katharine Hassapoyannes Pdf

This book examines the current and future challenges facing the food and agricultural system and their implications for policymaking at the national and international level.The growth in global population and income is expected to result in increasing demand for food and agricultural raw materials, intensifying concerns over food security and increasing pressure on the planet's natural resources. Moreover, climate change — a challenge on its own — is likely to increase the urgency for reforms in the food and agricultural sector. As a substantial contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, the sector will need to participate in efforts to slow global warming and to adjust to the effects of climate change, while ensuring global food security and resource sustainability. These pressures define a new set of priorities for policymaking at the national and international level. They also necessitate changes in the framework of global institutions for effective governance of the food system.Global Challenges for Future Food and Agricultural Policies presents a comprehensive analysis of the inter-related policy challenges of food security, management of natural resources, climate change, and international governance. The book also offers valuable insights into options for effective policymaking with the goal of inducing positive policy changes to the food and agricultural sector.

Author : Ellen Wall,Barry Smit,Johanna Wandel
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780774840200

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Farming in a Changing Climate by Ellen Wall,Barry Smit,Johanna Wandel Pdf

In farming systems across Canada, effective risk management is necessary to deal with drought, flooding, and extreme weather, and to adapt to altered climate and weather conditions. Unfortunately, climate change risks and opportunities are not always well understood among researchers and policy makers in the Canadian agri-food sector. This book addresses that gap by providing a wide-ranging synopsis of what climate change means for Canadian agriculture, exploring different approaches to the topic, and presenting examples of current research. It covers all agricultural regions and a wide variety of commodity production and farming systems. This comprehensive survey synthesizes twenty years of research on climate change and Canadian agriculture.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264561724

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Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation through Agriculture by OECD Pdf

Agriculture, with its growing contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and opportunities to mitigate emissions, can help close the gap between existing global mitigation efforts and those that are needed to keep global warming to between 1.5 °C and 2 °C by the end of the century. Global scale and farm scale analyses are used to evaluate both the effectiveness of different policy options to reduce agricultural emissions, and the impact on competitiveness, farm income, food security, and government finances. In order to contribute to global mitigation efforts, countries will need to design agricultural policy measures that can navigate these trade-offs within the context of their national policy priorities and objectives. As most countries have not yet implemented policies to reduce emissions from agriculture, the analyses provided here come at an opportune time to inform this policy development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821398449

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Increasing Resilience to Climate Change in the Agricultural Sector of the Middle East by Anonim Pdf

This publication aims to assist countries in understanding the specific challenges and opportunities posed by climate change in the agricultural sector in order to increase climate resilience and adapt to climate change. The report presents local-level priorities, informed by stakeholder input, to build agricultural resilience in both countries. The objectives of this study are threefold: 1) to improve the understanding of climate change projections and impacts on rural communities and livelihoods in selected regions of Jordan and Lebanon, specifically the Jordan River Valley and Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley; 2) to engage local communities, farmers, local experts, and local and national government representatives in a participatory fashion in helping craft agricultural adaptation options to climate change; and 3) to develop local and regional climate change action plans that formulate recommendations for investment strategies and strategic interventions in local agricultural systems. Therefore, this publication may serve as the analytical underpinning for ongoing discussions taking place within the governments, including the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment, on how to best move forward in building agricultural resilience to climate change.

Author : Nicolas Ahouissoussi,James E. Neumann,Jitendra Srivastava,Srivastava Jitendra,Cüneyt Okan,Peter Droogers
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781464801488

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Reducing the Vulnerability of Georgia's Agricultural Systems to Climate Change by Nicolas Ahouissoussi,James E. Neumann,Jitendra Srivastava,Srivastava Jitendra,Cüneyt Okan,Peter Droogers Pdf

The impacts of climate change on agricultural systems and rural economies are already evident throughout Europe and Central Asia. This study, Reducing the Vulnerability of Georgia’s Agricultural Systems to Climate Change, provides a menu of options for climate change adaptation in the agricultural and water resources sectors in Georgia.

Author : Gerald C. Nelson, Mark W. Rosegrant, Amanda Palazzo, Ian Gray, Christina Ingersoll, Richard Robertson, Simla Tokgoz, Tingju Zhu, Timothy B. Sulser, Claudia Ringler, Siwa Msangi, and Liangzhi You
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896291867

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Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050 by Gerald C. Nelson, Mark W. Rosegrant, Amanda Palazzo, Ian Gray, Christina Ingersoll, Richard Robertson, Simla Tokgoz, Tingju Zhu, Timothy B. Sulser, Claudia Ringler, Siwa Msangi, and Liangzhi You Pdf

As the global population grows and incomes in poor countries rise, so too, will the demand for food, placing additional pressure on sustainable food production. Climate change adds a further challenge, as changes in temperature and precipitation threaten agricultural productivity and the capacity to feed the world's population. This study assesses how serious the danger to food security might be and suggests some steps policymakers can take to remedy the situation.Using various modeling techniques, the authors project 15 different future scenarios for food security through 2050. Each scenario involves an alternative combination of potential population and income growth and climate change. The authors also examine the specific test case of a hypothetical extended drought in South Asia, to demonstrate the possible effects of increased climate variability on a particular world region. They conclude that the negative effects of climate change on food security can be counteracted by broad-based economic growthparticularly improved agricultural productivityand robust international trade in agricultural products to offset regional shortages. In pursuit of these goals, policymakers should increase public investment in land, water, and nutrient use and maintain relatively free international trade. This inquiry into the future of food security should be of use to policymakers and others concerned with the impact of climate change on international development.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264033801

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Improving the Environmental Performance of Agriculture Policy options and market approaches by OECD Pdf

Explores how agricultural policy can be designed to not only serve agricultural and economic objectives, but also environmental ones.

Author : Reider Almas,Hugh Campbell
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780523484

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Rethinking Agricultural Policy Regimes by Reider Almas,Hugh Campbell Pdf

Through international case studies, this book evaluates how various policy challenges are having an impact on specific agricultural policy regimes, and what future lessons might be learnt from key policy experiments around neoliberalism and multifunctionality.

Author : Timothy Josling,David Blandford,Katharine Hassapoyannes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9813235403

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Global Challenges for Future Food and Agricultural Policies by Timothy Josling,David Blandford,Katharine Hassapoyannes Pdf

Author : Antonio Yunez Naude,J Jorge Mora-rivera
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811269530

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Economic Development, Agriculture And Climate Change by Antonio Yunez Naude,J Jorge Mora-rivera Pdf

Climate change (CC) is currently an unquestionable phenomenon. If not stopped, it will be catastrophic for life on earth. Scientific evidence shows that human activities are the primary driver of CC tendencies since the industrial times. In this book, we present the relationship between development and CC, with special reference to agriculture, the rural sector, and policies aimed to promote sustainable development. We also give special attention to the situation in low- and medium-income countries particularly rural households and small farmers in these countries.The study of agriculture, CC, and sustainability requires consideration of natural resources and their uses (land, freshwater, forests, etc.), as well as the rural sector since land for agricultural production often expands at the expense of forests. In addition, the use of water for agricultural production affects the availability of this resource for other uses in the urban, industrial, and service sectors. Consequently, sustainable agricultural development under CC requires an interdisciplinary or at least a multidisciplinary approach. In this book, we do our best to deal with this challenge by focusing on issues and topics related to agriculture and its use of natural resources in the context of CC, but without ignoring the interrelations of these phenomena with further aspects of sustainability beyond agriculture.

Author : V.V. Belavadi,N. Nataraja Karaba,N.R. Gangadharappa
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789385926372

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Agriculture under Climate Change: Threats, Strategies and Policies by V.V. Belavadi,N. Nataraja Karaba,N.R. Gangadharappa Pdf

Agriculture continues to be an important sector fuelling economic growth. Rapidly changing climate is already affecting the production of food and feed, industrial crops, livestock, and seafood. In developing countries like India, agriculture and allied sectors contribute significantly to the gross domestic product. Therefore, evolving strategies to sustain a stable growth of the farming sector is essential for feeding a growing population and poverty alleviation in the face of global climate change. It is crucial to carry out a comprehensive analysis of different aspects of climate change to effectively combat its negative impacts on food production systems and landscapes and reap its potential benefits in agricultural production. Research findings and recommendations on topics as diverse as climate change impacts, genetic enhancement of crops, options for adaptation to climate change, opportunities and challenges for sustainable food production systems have been compiled in this volume. Capacity building for climate resilient agriculture and agriculture policy and planning is equally important to face future challenges. This book makes a compelling effort to address these major issues arising from climate change from an Indian perspective. The important and often conflicting issues in climate change impacts, adaptations and mitigations strategies are brought in to focus and a critical summary of the state-of-art in climate smart agriculture is presented for teachers, researchers and policy makers engaged with climate change and agriculture in the tropical arid and semi-arid regions of Asia and Africa.

Author : V. Venkatramanan,Shachi Shah,Ram Prasad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9811395721

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Global Climate Change and Environmental Policy by V. Venkatramanan,Shachi Shah,Ram Prasad Pdf

Global climate change threatens human existence through its potential impact on agriculture and the environment. Agriculture is climate-sensitive, and climate variability and climate change have net negative impact on it. Additionally, the agricultural landscape is affected by monoculture and agro-biodiversity loss, soil fertility depletion and soil loss, competition from biofuel production, crop yield plateaus and invasive species. Nevertheless, the global agricultural production system has to meet the food demands from the growing human population, which is set to exceed 10 billion by 2050. This book discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture, animal husbandry and rural livelihoods. Further, since agriculture, forestry and other land-use sectors contribute about 10–12 gigatonnes of CO2-equivalent per year, it argues that agricultural policy must dovetail adaptation and mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. This calls for a reformative and disruptive agricultural strategy like climate-smart agriculture, which can operate at all spatio-temporal scales with few modifications. The book also redefines sustainable agriculture through the lens of climate-smart agriculture in the context of the sustainability of Earth's life- support system and inter- and intra-generational equity. The climate-smart agriculture approach is gaining currency thanks to its inherent positive potential, and its goal to establish an agricultural system which includes "climate-smart food systems", "climate-proof farms", and "climate-smart soils". Climate-smart agriculture provides a pathway to achieve sustainable development goals which focus on poverty reduction, food security, and environmental health.

Author : William R. Sutton,World Bank,Jitendra P. Srivastava,James E. Neumann
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464800450

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Reducing the Vulnerability of Moldova's Agricultural Systems to Climate Change by William R. Sutton,World Bank,Jitendra P. Srivastava,James E. Neumann Pdf

This World Bank study brings together the forecast climate change impacts, costs vs. benefits of adaptation measures, and recommendations from the work conducted in Moldova.

Author : Floor M. Brouwer,Martin van Ittersum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048136193

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Environmental and Agricultural Modelling: by Floor M. Brouwer,Martin van Ittersum Pdf

Agriculture increasingly faces the challenge of balancing its multiple functions in a sustainable way. Integrated assessment and modelling (IAM) can provide insight into the potential impacts of policy changes. However, concepts to address the wide range of issues and functions typical for agriculture are still scarce. Environmental and Agricultural Modelling reviews and presents our current understanding of integrated and working tools to assess and compute, ex-ante, alternative agricultural and environmental policy options, allowing: 1. Analysis at the full range of scales (farm to European Union and global) whilst focusing on the most important issues emerging at each scale; 2. Analysis of the environmental, economic and social contributions of agricultural systems towards sustainable rural development and rural viability; 3. Analysis of a broad range of issues and agents of change, such as climate change, environmental policies, rural development options, effects of an enlarging EU, international competition, and effects on developing countries.