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Conservation Agriculture Holds Considerable Promise to Help Agricultural Livelihood Systems Coping with Climate Change: ICARDA’s Experience

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Title Conservation Agriculture Holds Considerable Promise to Help Agricultural Livelihood Systems Coping with Climate Change: ICARDA’s Experience
 
Creator Ben Salem, Hichem
 
Contributor Cicek, Harun
 
Description Around one-third of the global population depends on dryland
agriculture for food security and livelihoods. In addition to common
challenges (such as natural resources degradation, poverty), climate
change is exacerbating the situation. Therefore,
cost-effective and environment-friendly options that could improve the
efficiency and the sustainability of agricultural livelihood systems have to
be developed. Agricultural farming under Conservation Agriculture (CA)
holds considerable promise to help farmers cope with climate change
and to improve their incomes. CA is spread over 155 million ha, 24% of
which had been achieved during the past four years. It is based on three
main principles: i) No, or minimum soil disturbance, ii) Soil cover, and
iii) Crop diversity. CA is potentially applicable in most agroecosystems
and CA is being recognized more widely as an approach for sustainable
production intensification that offers enhancement of productivity with
improved resilience and climate change adaptability and mitigation. It
promotes resilience to climate change by increasing water availability
to the crop and rooting depth. Indeed, CA alters water balance in the
short- and long-term through decreased soil and water evaporation and
increased infiltration rate, soil water holding capacity and aggregate
stability.
 
Date 2015-02-25
2016-05-09T11:01:10Z
2016-05-09T11:01:10Z
 
Type Conference Paper
 
Identifier https://www.bibalex.org/cssp/event/Event.aspx?ID=1272
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Hichem Ben Salem, Harun Cicek. (25/2/2015). Conservation Agriculture Holds Considerable Promise to Help Agricultural Livelihood Systems Coping with Climate Change: ICARDA’s Experience. Alexandria, Egypt.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4751
Open access
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
 
Source Regional Action on Climate Change (RACC);