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18 - Targeting Research towards Achieving Food Security in an Era of Climate Change

from Part VI - Future Earth and Food Security

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2018

By
Bruce M. Campbell ,
Dhanush Dinesh  and
Sophia Huyer
Edited by
Tom Beer ,
Jianping Li  and
Keith Alverson
Tom Beer
Affiliation:
IUGG Commission on Climatic and Environmental Change (CCEC)
Jianping Li
Affiliation:
Beijing Normal University
Keith Alverson
Affiliation:
UNEP International Environmental Technology Centre
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Summary

The concept of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) was developed to tackle three of the greatest challenges of our time: food security, climate change adaptation and reducing emissions. Key research thrusts that need to be strengthened include (1) developing foresight and scenario building in terms of climate change and future development pathways; (2) producing and extending stress-tolerant breeds/varieties and practices, with low emissions; (3) improving and delivering seasonal forecasts and advisories; (4) building safety nets because of the inevitability of extreme events, e.g., index-based insurance and productive social safety nets, where assets are built to mitigate extreme events; (5) Devoting more attention to social differentiation and therefore better targeting of solutions; and (6) working on the barriers to technological uptake and policy change. We also argue that research itself needs to change in order to deliver rapid solutions, and we offer ten principles for effective Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D).
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Global Change and Future Earth
The Geoscience Perspective
 , pp. 239 - 246
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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