The overlooked spatial dimension of climate‐smart agriculture
Autor: | Peter H. Verburg, Reinhard Prestele |
---|---|
Přispěvatelé: | Environmental Geography |
Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
sub-Saharan Africa
0106 biological sciences Carbon Sequestration Conservation of Natural Resources 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Climate Change Context (language use) 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Food Supply Ecosystem services SDG 13 - Climate Action Environmental Chemistry trade-off analysis Agricultural productivity Environmental planning Africa South of the Sahara Spatial planning SDG 15 - Life on Land 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science 2. Zero hunger Global and Planetary Change Operationalization Food security Ecology sustainable intensification Agriculture food security 15. Life on land conservation agriculture Climate change mitigation 13. Climate action Spatial variability Business ecosystem services |
Zdroj: | Prestele, R & Verburg, P H 2020, ' The overlooked spatial dimension of climate-smart agriculture ', Global Change Biology, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1045-1054 . https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14940 Global Change Biology, 26(3), 1045-1054. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing |
ISSN: | 1365-2486 1354-1013 |
Popis: | Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and sustainable intensification (SI) are widely claimed to be high-potential solutions to address the interlinked challenges of food security and climate change. Operationalization of these promising concepts is still lacking and potential trade-offs are often not considered in the current continental- to global-scale assessments. Here we discuss the effect of spatial variability in the context of the implementation of climate-smart practices on two central indicators, namely yield development and carbon sequestration, considering biophysical limitations of suggested benefits, socioeconomic and institutional barriers to adoption, and feedback mechanisms across scales. We substantiate our arguments by an illustrative analysis using the example of a hypothetical large-scale adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) in sub-Saharan Africa. We argue that, up to now, large-scale assessments widely neglect the spatially variable effects of climate-smart practices, leading to inflated statements about co-benefits of agricultural production and climate change mitigation potentials. There is an urgent need to account for spatial variability in assessments of climate-smart practices and target those locations where synergies in land functions can be maximized in order to meet the global targets. Therefore, we call for more attention toward spatial planning and landscape optimization approaches in the operationalization of CSA and SI to navigate potential trade-offs. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
Externí odkaz: |