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Small-scale farmers in a 1.5 oC future: The importance of local social dynamics as an enabling factor for implementation and scaling of climate-smart agriculture

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Title Small-scale farmers in a 1.5 oC future: The importance of local social dynamics as an enabling factor for implementation and scaling of climate-smart agriculture
 
Creator Martínez Barón, Deissy
Orjuela, Guillermo
Renzoni, Giampiero
Loboguerrero Rodriguez, Ana María
Prager, Steven D.
 
Subject CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE
SYNERGY
AGRICULTURA CLIMÁTICAMENTE INTELIGENTE
SINERGIA
SMALLHOLDERS
CLIMATE CHANGE
CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
SOCIAL NETWORKS
SOCIAL CAPITAL
CAPITAL SOCIAL
 
Description Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has the potential to help farmers implement both adaptation and mitigation practices. The mitigation aspect of CSA is often not considered by farmers due to a high discount rate and, as such, adaptation is usually the priority concern. This review article offers perspective on this issue and highlights two key gaps in the literature: (i) understanding of factors related to the uptake of adaptation practices with co-benefits for mitigation and, (ii) the role of social networks to better enable rapid, widespread implementation of CSA, the latter being critical to bringing CSA to scale. The systematic review treated literature on synergies between adaptation, mitigation and social networks in the rural sector, as well as case studies illustrating the importance of social networks in climate change interventions when addressing synergies in adaptation and mitigation. We find that additional research is required that explicitly focuses on how social networks and social capital may be harnessed to hasten the adoption and uptake of highly synergistic CSA practices. This will facilitate both adaptation in the near term and contribute to mitigation at scale, allowing small-scale farmers to both benefit from and contribute to a 1.5°C future.
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Date 2018-03-09T17:49:13Z
2018-03-09T17:49:13Z
2018
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Martinez Baron, Deissy; Orjuela, Guillermo; Renzoni, Giampiero; Loboguerrero Rodríguez, Ana María; Prager, Steven D.. 2018. Small-scale farmers in a 1.5oC future: The importance of local social dynamics as an enabling factor for implementation and scaling of climate-smart agriculture . Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 31: 112-119.
1877-3435
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/91553
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND
 
Format 31: 112-119
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability