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Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems

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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-61194-5_14
 
Title Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems
 
Creator Antle, J M
Homann-Kee Tui, S
Descheemaeker, K
Masikati, P
Valdivia, R O
 
Subject Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Climate Change
 
Description The predicted effects of climate change call for a multi-dimensional method to assess the performance of various agricultural systems across economic, environmental and social dimensions. Climate smart agriculture (CSA) recognizes that the three goals of climate adaptation, mitigation and resilience must be integrated into the framework of a sustainable agricultural system. However, current methods to determine a systems’ ability to achieve CSA goals are lacking. This paper presents a new simulation-based method based on the Regional Integrated Assessment (RIA) methods developed by the Agricultural Model Inter-comparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) for climate impact assessment. This method combines available data, field- and stakeholder-based surveys, biophysical and economic models, and future climate and socio-economic scenarios. It features an integrated farm and household approach and accounts for heterogeneity across biophysical and socioeconomic variables as well as temporal variability of climate indicators. This method allows for assessment of the technologies and practices of an agricultural system to achieve the three goals of CSA. The case study of a mixed crop livestock system in western Zimbabwe is highlighted as a typical smallholder agricultural systems in Africa.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Contributor Lipper, L
McCarthy, N
Zilberman, D
Asfaw, S
 
Date 2018
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10259/1/10.1007%252F978-3-319-61194-5_14.pdf
Antle, J M and Homann-Kee Tui, S and Descheemaeker, K and Masikati, P and Valdivia, R O (2018) Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems. In: Climate Smart Agriculture: Building Resilience to Climate Change. Natural Resource Management and Policy, 52 . Springer, Rome, pp. 307-333. ISBN 978-3-319-61194-5