Record Details

Climate change and agriculture in South Asia: adaptation options in smallholder production systems

CGSpace

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Climate change and agriculture in South Asia: adaptation options in smallholder production systems
 
Creator Aryal, Jeetendra Prakash
Sapkota, Tek Bahadur
Khurana, Ritika
Khatri-Chhetri, Arun
Rahut, Dil Bahadur
Jat, Mangi Lal
 
Subject climate change
agriculture
food security
production systems
 
Description Agriculture in South Asia is vulnerable to climate change. Therefore, adaptation measures are required to sustain agricultural productivity, to reduce vulnerability, and to enhance the resilience of the agricultural system to climate change. There are many adaptation practices in the production systems that have been proposed and tested for minimizing the effects of climate change. Some socioeconomic and political setup contributes to adaptation, while others may inhibit it. This paper presents a systematic review of the impacts of climate change on crop production and also the major options in the agricultural sector that are available for adaptation to climate change. One of the key conclusions is that agricultural practices that help climate change adaptation in agriculture are available, while the institutional setup to implement and disseminate those technical solutions is yet to be strengthened. Thus, it is important to examine how to bring the required institutional change, generate fund to invest on these changes, and design dynamic policies for long-term climate change adaptation in agriculture rather than a mere focus on agricultural technology. This is one of the areas where South Asian climate policies require reconsidering to avoid possible maladaptation in the long run.
 
Date 2019-07-09
2019-12-09T19:04:56Z
2019-12-09T19:04:56Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Aryal JP, Sapkota TB, Khurana R, Khatri-Chhetri A, Rahut DB, Jat ML. 2020. Climate change and agriculture in South Asia: adaptation options in smallholder production systems. Environment, Development and Sustainability 22:5045–5075.
1573-2975
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/106081
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-019-00414-4
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Source Environment, Development and Sustainability