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- Drivers of household food availability in sub-Saharan Africa based on big data from small farms(National Academy of Sciences, 2016) Frelat, R.; Lopez-Ridaura, S.; Giller, K.E.; Herrero, M.; Douxchamps, S.; Andersson Djurfeldt, A.; Erenstein, O.; Henderson, B.; Kassie, M.; Paul, B.K.; Rigolot, C.; Ritzema, R.S.; Rodriguez, D.; Van Asten, P.; Wijk, M. van
Publication - Food access deficiencies in sub-Saharan Africa: prevalence and implications for agricultural interventions(Frontiers, 2019) Fraval, S.; Hammond, J.; Bogard, J.; Ng’endo, M.; Etten, J. van; Herrero, M.; Oosting, S.J.; Boer, I.J.M. de; Lannerstad, M.; Teufel, N.; Lamanna, C.; Rosenstock, T.; Pagella, T.; Vanlauwe, B.; Dontsop, P.; Baines, D.; Carpena, P.; Njingulula, P.; Okafor, C.; Wichern, J.; Ayantunde, A.; Bosire, C.; Chesterman, S.; Kihoro, E.; Rao, E.J.O.; Skirrow, T.; Steinke, J.; Stirling, C.; Yameogo, V.; Wijk, M. van
Publication - A framework for priority-setting in climate smart agriculture research(Elsevier, 2018) Thornton, P.; Whitbread, A.; Baedeker, T.; Cairns, J.E.; Claessens, L.; Baethgen, W.; Bunn, C.; Friedmann, M.; Giller, K.E.; Herrero, M.; Howden, M.; Kilcline, K.; Nangia, V.; Ramirez-Villegas, J.; Shalander Kumar; West, P.C.; Keating, B.Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is widely promoted as an approach for reorienting agricultural development under the realities of climate change. Prioritising research-for-development activities is crucial, given the need to utilise scarce resources as effectively as possible. However, no framework exists for assessing and comparing different CSA research investments. Several aspects make it challenging to prioritise CSA research, including its multi-dimensional nature (productivity, adaptation and mitigation), the uncertainty surrounding many climate impacts, and the scale and temporal dependencies that may affect the benefits and costs of CSA adoption. Here we propose a framework for prioritising agricultural research investments across scales and review different approaches to setting priorities among agricultural research projects. Many priority-setting case studies address the short- to medium-term and at relatively local scales. We suggest that a mix of actions that span spatial and temporal time scales is needed to be adaptive to a changing climate, address immediate problems and create enabling conditions for enduring change.
Publication - Reducing emissions from agriculture to meet the 2 °C target(Wiley, 2016) Wollenberg, E.; Richards, M.B.; Smith, P.; Havlík, P.; Obersteiner, M.; Tubiello, F.N.; Herold, M.; Gerber, P.; Carter, S.; Reisinger, A.; Van Vuuren, D.; Dickie, A.; Neufeldt, H.; Sander, B.O.; Wassmann, R.; Sommer, R.; Amonette, J.E.; Falcucci, A.; Herrero, M.; Opio, C.; Roman-Cuesta, R.M.; Stehfest, E.; Westhoek, H.; Ortiz-Monasterio, I.; Sapkota, T.; Rufino, M.C.; Thornton, P.; Verchot, L.; West, P.C.; Soussana, J.F.; Baedeker, T.; Sadler, M.; Vermeulen, S.; Campbell, B.M.More than 100 countries pledged to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the 2015 Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Yet technical information about how much mitigation is needed in the sector vs. how much is feasible remains poor. We identify a preliminary global target for reducing emissions from agriculture of ~1 GtCO2e yr−1 by 2030 to limit warming in 2100 to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Yet plausible agricultural development pathways with mitigation cobenefits deliver only 21–40% of needed mitigation. The target indicates that more transformative technical and policy options will be needed, such as methane inhibitors and finance for new practices. A more comprehensive target for the 2 °C limit should be developed to include soil carbon and agriculture-related mitigation options. Excluding agricultural emissions from mitigation targets and plans will increase the cost of mitigation in other sectors or reduce the feasibility of meeting the 2 °C limit.
Publication - Beyond climate-smart agriculture: toward safe operating spaces for global food systems(BioMed Central, 2013) Neufeldt, H.; Jahn, M.; Campbell, B.M.; Beddington, J.R.; Declerck, F.; De Pinto, A.; Gulledge, J.; Hellin, J.; Herrero, M.; Jarvis, A.; LeZaks, D.; Meinke, H.; Rosenstock, T.; Scholes, M.; Scholes, R.; Vermeulen, S.; Wollenberg, E.; Zougmore, R.B.Agriculture is considered to be "climate-smart" when it contributes to increasing food security, adaptation and mitigation in a sustainable way. This new concept now dominates current discussions in agricultural development because of its capacity to unite the agendas of the agriculture, development and climate change communities under one brand. In this opinion piece authored by scientists from a variety of international agricultural and climate research communities, we argue that the concept needs to be evaluated critically because the relationship between the three dimensions is poorly understood, such that practically any improved agricultural practice can be considered climate-smart. This lack of clarity may have contributed to the broad appeal of the concept. From the understanding that we must hold ourselves accountable to demonstrably better meet human needs in the short and long term within foreseeable local and planetary limits, we develop a conceptualization of climate-smart agriculture as agriculture that can be shown to bring us closer to safe operating spaces for agricultural and food systems across spatial and temporal scales. Improvements in the management of agricultural systems that bring us significantly closer to safe operating spaces will require transformations in governance and use of our natural resources, underpinned by enabling political, social and economic conditions beyond incremental changes. Establishing scientifically credible indicators and metrics of long-term safe operating spaces in the context of a changing climate and growing social-ecological challenges is critical to creating the societal demand and political will required to motivate deep transformations. Answering questions on how the needed transformational change can be achieved will require actively setting and testing hypotheses to refine and characterize our concepts of safer spaces for social-ecological systems across scales. This effort will demand prioritizing key areas of innovation, such as (1) improved adaptive management and governance of social-ecological systems; (2) development of meaningful and relevant integrated indicators of social-ecological systems; (3) gathering of quality integrated data, information, knowledge and analytical tools for improved models and scenarios in time frames and at scales relevant for decision-making; and (4) establishment of legitimate and empowered science policy dialogues on local to international scales to facilitate decision making informed by metrics and indicators of safe operating spaces.
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