Smart Technologies for Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture: Upscaling in Developing Countries

Smart Technologies for Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture: Upscaling in Developing Countries defines integrated climate smart agricultural technologies (ICSAT) as a suite of interconnected techniques and practices that enhance quantity and quality of agricultural products with minimum impact on the environment. These ICSAT are centered on three main pillars, increased production and income, adaptation and resilience to climate change, and minimizing GHG emissions. This book brings together technologies contributing to the three pillars, explains the context in which they can be scaled up, and identifies research and development gaps as areas requiring further investigation. It stresses the urgency in critically analyzing and recommending ICSAT and scaling out the efforts of both developing and disseminating these in an integrated manner. The book discusses, synthesizes, and offers alternative solutions to agriculture production systems and socio-economic development. It brings together biophysical and socioeconomic disciplines in evaluating suitable ICSAT in an effort to help reduce poverty and food insecurity. Highlights the research gaps and opportunities on climate smart agricultural technologies and institutional arrangementsProvides information on institutional engagements that are inclusive of value chain actors that support partnerships and the development of interactive platformsElaborates some of the effects of climate extremes on production and socioeconomic development on small farms whose impact has potentially large impact INDICE: 1. Climate Smart Technologies: Scope, relevance and important milestones to date 2. Advancing Key Technical Interventions through Targeted Investment 3. Exploring climatic resilience through genetic/genome development for food and income crops 4. Enhancing gains from beneficial rhizo-microbial symbiotic communities on future cropping systems 5. Reducing risk of weed infestation and labour burden of weed management in cropping systems 6. The opportunities of smallholder farmers to rip benefits from conservation agriculture practices 7. The use of Integrated Research for Development in promoting climate smart technologies, the process and practice 8. Taking to scale adaptable climate smart technologies for use by end users 9. Diversifying processing technologies for improved Food Safety and Food Security at household level. 10. Models supporting the engagement of youth in climate smart agricultural enterprises 11 Enabling agricultural transformation through policy engagement 12. Integrated assessment of production systems beyond biophysical methods: Role of decision support tools 13. Delivering Integrated Climate Smart Agricultural Technologies for Wider Utilization in Southern Africa

• ISBN: 978-0-12-810521-4
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 330
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés