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Agri-food systems and forests significantly impact global climate change, they contribute to over one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, through among others deforestation and food supply chains. They are also vulnerable to climate change effects.
These sectors have diverse capacities for adaptation and mitigation, which can be harnessed through aligned strategies. Food security and socio-economic issues highlight the need for climate-conscious food policies.
This book examines the diversity of adaptation and mitigation strategies needed at multiple levels genetic, agronomic, policy, trade, and finance to transform agriculture and food systems in response to climate change. Systemic, context-specific transitions are essential, considering diverse bioclimatic and socio-economic conditions. These include evolving dominant models, shifting diets, reducing waste, and re-localizing food systems.
Research plays a pivotal role in guiding transitions, and this book compiles high-quality research for informed discussions.
List of contents
.- Introduction: Agricultural and food systems, contributors, victims of climate change and bearers of solutions.
.- Agricultural, food and forestry issues in international climate negotiations: setting the agenda and challenges.
.- Tensions and Synergies Between the Concepts of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Agroecology, and Nature-Based Solutions.
.- Atlas of World Agriculture and Food Systems in the Face of Climate Change.
.- Family farming in the face of climate change: potential for adaptation through agroecology.
.- Climate change, (im)mobility and land tenure: challenges for family farming in the Global South.
.- Water, agriculture and climate change: global perspectives.
.- Food systems: Both responsible for and victims of climate change.
.- Forests and Climate Change.
.- Agriculture and Climate Change Debates: The Case of Livestock Production.
.- Agriculture, health and climate change: towards a "one health" vision.
.- What pastoralism tells us about climate change.
.- Major crops and climate change: the cases of rice, sorghum, sugarcane and cotton.
.- Oil palm: building climate resilience.
.- Horticultural Production in the Face of Climate Change.
.- Livestock systems facing the challenges of climate change.
.- Soil carbon sequestration: a solution to mitigate and adapt to climate change?.
.- What solutions for agricultural water management in the face of climate change?.
.- Energy production in agriculture to tackle climate change.
.- Adapting to climate change: what innovative practices in tropical production systems?.
.- Adapting and innovating in terms of cultivated species and varieties: a key role for cultivated and natural diversity? AFS.
.- Territorializing climate action.
.- Food systems and climate change: mitigation and adaptation in agri-food chains and consumption.
.- Agricultural Methane: A Lever for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Comply with the Paris Agreement.
.- The Heterogeneity of Institutionalization Pathways for Climate Policies and Instruments in Agriculture: A Comparative Analysis of Senegal, Colombia, Brazil, and France.
.- Finance, Agriculture and Climate.
.- The interfaces between science and policy-making in the face of the climate change challenge.
.- Conclusion.
About the author
Vincent Blanfort, an agro-development engineer and PhD in agroecology, is a researcher at CIRAD within the Selmet Joint Research Unit. His work focuses on carbon balances in grazing livestock systems. He also serves as Climate Change Officer at CIRAD.
Marie Hrabanski, is a political sociology researcher at CIRAD within the Artdev Joint Research Unit, PhD in sociology and political sciences and HDR. Her work focuses on the design and implementation of policies and instruments for adapting agriculture to climate change in both the Global North and South. She also serves as Climate Change co-coordinator at CIRAD.
Julien Demenois, a graduate of the French National School of Civil Engineering for Water and Forests (Ponts, Eaux et Forêts) and PhD in functional ecology, is a researcher at CIRAD within the Aïda Research Unit (UR Aïda). His research focuses on carbon sequestration in tropical soils. He also serves as the "4 per 1000" Initiative coordinator for CIRAD.
Summary
This is an open access book.
Agri-food systems and forests significantly impact global climate change, they contribute to over one-third of greenhouse gas emissions, through among others deforestation and food supply chains. They are also vulnerable to climate change effects.
These sectors have diverse capacities for adaptation and mitigation, which can be harnessed through aligned strategies. Food security and socio-economic issues highlight the need for climate-conscious food policies.
This book examines the diversity of adaptation and mitigation strategies needed at multiple levels—genetic, agronomic, policy, trade, and finance—to transform agriculture and food systems in response to climate change. Systemic, context-specific transitions are essential, considering diverse bioclimatic and socio-economic conditions. These include evolving dominant models, shifting diets, reducing waste, and re-localizing food systems.
Research plays a pivotal role in guiding transitions, and this book compiles high-quality research for informed discussions.
