What are the most effective ways to promote climate smart agricultural practices among small-scale farmers in developing countries, and what role can governments and NGOs play in this effort?
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Promoting climate-smart agricultural practices among small-scale farmers in developing countries can be achieved through various means. Here are some of the most effective ways to promote climate-smart agricultural practices:
Capacity Building: Small-scale farmers require knowledge and skills to adopt climate-smart agricultural practices effectively. Capacity building can be achieved through training programs, workshops, and field demonstrations.
Access to Information and Technology: Providing small-scale farmers with access to climate-smart agricultural technologies, such as drought-tolerant seeds, weather forecasting, and soil testing, can help them make informed decisions about their farming practices.Like the Demeter Egypt initiative or the Egyptian Society for Biodynamic Agriculture
and the carbon bond initiative
Financial Incentives: Financial incentives, such as subsidies and loans, can encourage small-scale farmers to adopt climate-smart agricultural practices. Financial incentives can help reduce the costs of inputs and technologies, making them more accessible to farmers.
New initiatives, such as the Economy of Love initiative, which provides a set of material incentive packages, for example, 100 pounds for every ton of compost used for organic farming, and 5 pounds for every fruitless tree, and incentives for the transition to renewable energy and bee care, and facilitating access to financing in cooperation with the National Bank and a variety of incentives
Community Participation: Community participation can promote the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices by creating a sense of ownership and collective responsibility. Community participation can be achieved through farmer field schools, farmer cooperatives, and community-based organizations.
Policy Support: Government policies can support the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices by providing enabling environments, such as research and development, extension services, and infrastructure development.
Awareness and Advocacy: Raising awareness about the benefits of climate-smart agricultural practices and advocating for their adoption can help promote their uptake among small-scale farmers. Awareness and advocacy can be achieved through media campaigns, public forums, and stakeholder engagement.
Overall, a combination of these strategies is needed to promote climate-smart agricultural practices among small-scale farmers in developing countries effectively.
Mougib El Rahman Abdelbasset Hassan
projects Manger Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development
Climate-smart crop production practices and technologies are: Use of quality seeds and planting materials of well-adapted crops and varieties with biodiversity management in IPM with improved water use and management in sustainable soil and land management for increased crop productivity through sustainable mechanization. Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) is an approach to help the people who manage agricultural systems respond effectively to climate change. The CSA approach pursues the triple objectives of sustainably increasing productivity and incomes, adapting to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions where possible. To mitigate the climate change techniques and practices prove to be helpful as prepared a weather changes parameters as preciously to ensuring ecosystem compatible drainage and improved irrigation efficiency through rainwater harvesting precision farming. Adopt of zero-tillage practices with the adoption of adaptive crops. They include polyculture, crop reduction, crop rotation, food cycling biological pest control and/or biodiversity promotion and use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, mechanical cultivation, and other techniques
En mi pais Uruguay, con clima 6 meses templados (con heladas invernales) y 6 meses subtropicales (con altas temperaturas y una Evapotranspiración Potencial ETP superior al regimen de lluvias) más una variabilidad muy grande con régimen isohigro de lluvias (1000 a 1200 mm promedio/año pero que nunca sabemos cuándo van a ocurrir) las formas mas inteligentes de atenuar los efectos del cambio climatico es generar sistemas robustos de producción que al menos en la producción ganadera de leche y carne (mi area de acción) que son logrables diversificando siembras de pasturas templadas en algunos potreros, y pasturas subtropicales en otros, para que el sistema pastoril siempre cuente con algunos potreros con mediana a alta tasa de crecimiento y por ende se puedan pastorear durante todo el año. Eso en la particularidad del clima uruguayo compuesto por 2 climas contrastantes a lo largo del año. Debemos elegir las especies forrajeras/cultivos mas adecuadas para que podamos estar preparados ante la variabilidad climatica que viene generando grandes perjuicios productivos al menos en nuestra region en los ultimos 3 años. Saludos
To promote climate smart agriculture in developing countries, there is a need to carry out both result and method demonstrations in climate smart technologies in farming communities that are drought hit. Such demonstration technologies may include simple irrigation, mulching, soil and water conservation structures among others
Making exchange of experiences, provide with training and appropriate policies to relax the financial constraints that limit adoption of climate smart agriculture are some of the relevant mechanisms to promote climate smart agriculture.
Climate smart agriculture is an approach that helps to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support sustained crop productivity and ensuring food security in a scenario of changing climate. Raising awareness about the benefits of climate-smart agricultural practices and advocating for their adoption can help promote their uptake among small-scale farmers. Awareness and advocacy can be achieved through media campaigns, public forums, and stakeholder engagement.Smallholder farmers who had access to weather information had a higher probability of implementing climate change adaptation strategies such as late and early planting, use of early maturing crops, planting food and fodder trees, and soil and water conservation measures at 1% level of significance. Activities that improve soil, plant, and animal health can improve resilience to climate change. Regenerative agriculture practices such as no-till cultivation, not burning stubbles, and planting cover crops, can ensure that plants and soil are in the best condition to tolerate drought and erratic rainfall and enhance the resilience of Indian agriculture, covering crops, livestock and fisheries to climatic variability and climate change through development and application of improved production and risk management technologies. Unpredictable rainfall patterns mean that crops have less time to grow, producing less over time. Farmers resort to higher use of fertilizer and water to compensate, degrading the quality of soil as well as lowering groundwater levels, while spending much more to grow the same amount – or less – on the same acreage. In addition, they also do not require the use of pesticides or preservatives even for long-term storage. This can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and contribute to resolving our problem with global warming and climate change.
Smallholder farmers who had access to weather information had a higher probability of implementing climate change adaptation strategies such as late and early planting, use of early maturing crops, planting food and fodder trees, and soil and water conservation measures at 1% level of significance. Activities that improve soil, plant, and animal health can improve resilience to climate change. Regenerative agriculture practices such as no-till cultivation, not burning stubbles, and planting cover crops, can ensure that plants and soil are in the best condition to tolerate drought and erratic rainfall. Raising awareness about the benefits of climate-smart agricultural practices and advocating for their adoption can help promote their uptake among small-scale farmers. Awareness and advocacy can be achieved through media campaigns, public forums, and stakeholder engagement. An area's climate affects the types of plants that can grow there. Plant growth is dependent on precipitation and temperature. If the precipitation level is too high or too low or if the temperature is too high or too low, plants may not grow well. Some climates are better for growing crops than others. The farmers are faced with decisions on adaptation strategies such as sowing multiple crops in a single season to increase productivity, planting drought-resistant crops that can withstand periods of water scarcity, producing crops that mature early, changing the planting and harvesting dates according to the monsoons. Effective adaptation will help people, businesses, communities and countries cope with both the currently-happening and future impacts of climate change. Measures like flood protection and changes to land-use, as well as the ways we construct buildings, can help minimize damages to human livelihoods and the economy. Climate change presents a range of risks and impacts that are expected to negatively impact our economy. These include property loss and damage, infrastructure and service costs and risks to financial stability.
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