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An integrated adaptation and mitigation framework for developing agricultural research: Synergies and Trade-Offs

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Title An integrated adaptation and mitigation framework for developing agricultural research: Synergies and Trade-Offs
 
Creator Jarvis, Andy
Lau, Charlotte
Cook, S.
Wollenberg, Eva K.
Hansen, James
Bonilla, Osana
Challinor, Andrew J.
 
Description Global food security is under threat by climate change, and the impacts fall disproportionately on resource-poor small producers. With the goal of making agricultural and food systems more climate resilient, this paper presents an adaptation and mitigation framework. A road map for further agricultural
research is proposed, based on the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food
Security. We propose a holistic, integrated approach that takes into account trade-offs and feedbacks
between interventions. We divide the agenda into four research areas, three tackling risk management,
accelerated adaptation and emissions mitigation, and the fourth facilitating adoption of research outputs.
After reviewing specific technical, agronomic and policy options for reducing climate change vulnerability,
we acknowledge that science and good-faith recommendations do not necessarily translate into effective
and timely actions. We therefore outline impediments to behavioural change and propose that future
research overcomes these obstacles by linking the right institutions, instruments and scientific outputs.
Food security research must go beyond its focus on production to also examine food access and utilization
issues. Finally, we conclude that urgent action is needed despite the uncertainties, trade-offs and challenges.
 
Date 2011-04
2011-09-12T11:36:16Z
2011-09-12T11:36:16Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Jarvis A, Lau C, Cook S, Wollenberg E, Hansen J, Bonilla O, Challinor A. 2011. An integrated adaptation and mitigation framework for developing agricultural research: Synergies and trade-Offs. Experimental Agriculture 47(02):185-203.
0014-4797
1469-4441
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/7029
http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A826ApG3
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479711000123
 
Language en
 
Rights Limited Access
 
Format p. 185-203
 
Publisher Cambridge University Press
 
Source Experimental Agriculture