Climate-smart landscapes: Opportunities and challenges for integrating adaptation and mitigation in tropical agriculture

Harvey Celia A., Chacon Mario, Donatti Camila I., Garen Eva, Hannah Lee, Andrade Angela, Bede Lucio, Brown Douglas, Calle Allicia, Chará Julian, Clement Christopher, Gray Elizabeth, Minh Ha Hoang, Minang Peter, Rodriguez Ana María, Seeberg-Elverfeldt Christina, Semroc Bambi, Shames Seth, Smukler Sean, Somarriba Chavez Eduardo, Torquebiau Emmanuel, Van Etten Jacob, Wollenberg Eva. 2014. Climate-smart landscapes: Opportunities and challenges for integrating adaptation and mitigation in tropical agriculture. Conservation Letters, 7 (2) : 77-90.

https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12066

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Quartile : Outlier, Sujet : BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Résumé : Addressing the global challenges of climate change, food security, and poverty alleviation requires enhancing the adaptive capacity and mitigation potential of agricultural landscapes across the tropics. However, adaptation and mitigation activities tend to be approached separately due to a variety of technical, political, financial, and socioeconomic constraints. Here, we demonstrate that many tropical agricultural systems can provide both mitigation and adaptation benefits if they are designed and managed appropriately and if the larger landscape context is considered. Many of the activities needed for adaptation and mitigation in tropical agricultural landscapes are the same needed for sustainable agriculture more generally, but thinking at the landscape scale opens a new dimension for achieving synergies. Intentional integration of adaptation and mitigation activities in agricultural landscapes offers significant benefits that go beyond the scope of climate change to food security, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation. However, achieving these objectives will require transformative changes in current policies, institutional arrangements, and funding mechanisms to foster broad-scale adoption of climate-smart approaches in agricultural landscapes.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : changement climatique, agriculture, paysage, zone tropicale, adaptation, impact sur l'environnement, développement durable, gestion des ressources, politique de développement, politique de l'environnement, pauvreté, biodiversité, adaptation aux changements climatiques, atténuation des effets du changement climatique