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Title: | Alternate land use options for resource conservation, emerging market needs and mitigation of climate change in SAT regions |
Other Titles: | Alternate land use options for resource conservation, emerging market needs and mitigation of climate change in SAT regions |
Authors: | ICAR_CRIDA |
ICAR Data Use Licennce: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/PDF/ICAR_Data_Use_Licence.pdf |
Author's Affiliated institute: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Published/ Complete Date: | 2009-01-01 |
Project Code: | Not Available |
Keywords: | resource conservation, emerging, market needs,mitigation, climate change |
Publisher: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Citation: | Not Available |
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Abstract/Description: | Over the past two decades climate change has evolved from a debate about whether the planet is really warming to an increased focus on how to mitigate and adapt to its impacts. After an extensive review of the available literature on evidence of climate change, the Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, 2007 concluded that ìthe warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average temperatureî. ìThe scientific evidence is now overwhelming; climate change presents very serious global risks, and it demands an urgent global responseî (Stern 2007). The developing countries mostly rely on agriculture for rural livelihoods and development. Nevertheless, agricultural systems in developing countries are adversely affected by land pressure and climate change, both of which threaten food production. Reduced productivity due to land degradation exacerbates the food deficit, despite the relative success of intensive agricultural systems that are promoted in many regions of the world. The various environmental impacts of agricultural intensification and food production, with negative impacts on soil and biodiversity, result in adverse feedbacks on climate, food security and on-farm income at local scale (Krausmann et al. 2013). Prior to the Green Revolution, the majority of subsistence farming anywhere in the world involved mixed species, usually including tree products (Mbow et al. 2014). Pressures towards higher production drove modern agriculture into monocultures. But in the background, subsistence agroforestry systems have also continued. As research has increasingly recognised 1 Agroforestry ó A Sustainable Solution to Address Climate Change Challenges AR Uthappa, SB Chavan, AK Handa, Ram Ne an, AK Handa, Ram Newaj, Dhir aj, Dhiraj Kumar KB Sridhar and OP Chaturvedi KB Sridhar and OP Chaturvedi KB Sridhar and OP Chaturvedi ICAR- Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh 2 Agroforestry for Increased Production and Livelihood Security the need to encompass ecosystems services other than food production, agroforestry has returned to the limelight. Recognizing the ability of agroforestry systems to address multiple problems and deliver multiple benefits, the IPCC Third Assessment Report on Climate Change states that ìAgroforestry can both sequester carbon and produce a range of economic, environmental, and socioeconomic benefits. For example, trees in agroforestry farms improve soil fertility through control of erosion, maintenance of soil organic matter and physical properties, increased N, extraction of nutrients from deep soil horizons, and promotion of more closed nutrient cyclingî (IPCC 2001). Agroforestry could be a win-win solution to the seemingly difficult choice between reforestation and agricultural land use, because it increases the storage of carbon as well as enhance agricultural productivity. This paper will discuss various adaptation and mitigation strategies to tackle climate change through agroforestry. |
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Type(s) of content: | Book |
Sponsors: | Not Available |
Language: | English |
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URI: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/33337 |
Appears in Collections: | NRM-CRIDA-Publication |
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