Climate‐Smart Landscapes: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Tropical Agriculture

Conservation Letters

Celia A. Harvey¹⁴  Mario Chacón¹⁴  Camila I. Donatti¹⁴  Eva Garen¹⁴  Lee Hannah¹⁴  Angela Andrade¹¹  Lucio Bede¹  Douglas Brown²  Alicia Calle¹⁰  Julian Chará¹²  Christopher Clement⁶  Elizabeth Gray⁸  Minh Ha Hoang⁴  Peter Minang⁴  Ana María Rodríguez¹⁴  Christina Seeberg-Elverfeldt^5,14  Bambi Semroc^14,16  Seth Shames^14,15  Sean Smukler^3,14  Eduardo Somarriba^13,14  Emmanuel Torquebiau^9,14  Jacob van Etten^7,14 

[1]Conservation International—Brazil, 30380–110 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

[2]World Vision International, 1 World Drive, Mississuaga, Ontario, Canada

[3]Faculty of Land and Food Systems, The University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

[4]World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya

[5]FAO, Climate, Energy and Tenure Division (NRC), Viale delle Terme di Carcalla, Rome, Italy

[6]University of Vermont Gund Institute, Burlington, VT, USA

[7]Bioversity International, Regional Office for the Americas, Recta Cali-Palmira km 17, Palmira, Colombia

[8]Africa Program, The Nature Conservancy, Seattle, WA, USA

[9]French Agricultural Research Center for International Development (CIRAD), UR 102, Avenue Agropolis, Montpellier, France

[10]The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI), Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

[11]Conservation International—Colombia, Colombia

[12]Centre for Research on Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems (CIPAV), Cali, Colombia

[13]CATIE, The Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, Turrialba, Costa Rica

[14]The Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA

[15]EcoAgriculture Partners, Washington, DC, USA

[16]The Center for Environmental Leadership in Business (CELB), Conservation International, Arlington, VA, USA

关键词: Adaptation;    agricultural landscapes;    agricultural management practices;    climate‐smart agriculture;    integrated landscape management;    mitigation;    REDD+;    sustainable agriculture;    synergies;    tradeoffs;   

DOI  :  10.1111/conl.12066

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Abstract

Addressing the global challenges of climate change, food security, and poverty alleviation requires enhancing the adaptive capacity and mitigation potential of agricultural landscapes across the tropics. However, adaptation and mitigation activities tend to be approached separately due to a variety of technical, political, financial, and socioeconomic constraints. Here, we demonstrate that many tropical agricultural systems can provide both mitigation and adaptation benefits if they are designed and managed appropriately and if the larger landscape context is considered. Many of the activities needed for adaptation and mitigation in tropical agricultural landscapes are the same needed for sustainable agriculture more generally, but thinking at the landscape scale opens a new dimension for achieving synergies. Intentional integration of adaptation and mitigation activities in agricultural landscapes offers significant benefits that go beyond the scope of climate change to food security, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation. However, achieving these objectives will require transformative changes in current policies, institutional arrangements, and funding mechanisms to foster broad-scale adoption of climate-smart approaches in agricultural landscapes.

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