Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation
Agriculture Sector
The agriculture sector faces the daunting challenge of providing adequate food and other necessities to a growing world population, which is projected to increase to nine billion by 2050. There is limited scope for expansion of arable land, and the emerging threat to agriculture from climate change in the form of unpredictable weather, floods, and other disastrous events makes the task of providing enough food for the global population even more challenging.
This guidebook provides information on 22 technologies and options for adapting to climate change in the agriculture sector. It describes what policy makers, development planners, agriculture experts and other stakeholders in countries should consider while determining a technology development path in agriculture. NGOs, rural communities and agricultural practitioners could examine and include appropriate options in their portfolios of technologies and options for agriculture. The guidebook is expected to stimulate further work on identifying options for climate change adaptation in the agricultural sector in different parts of the world.
Fonte: Clements, R., J. Haggar, A. Quezada, and J. Torres (2011). Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation – Agriculture Sector. X. Zhu (Ed.). UNEP Ris. Centre, Roskilde, 2011.