Looking up and going down: Does sustainable adaptation to climate change ensure dietary diversity and food security among rural communities or vice versa?

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Sustainable Food Systems

Nasir Nadeem¹  Bader Alhafi Alotaibi²  Pomi Shahbaz³  Shamsheer ul Haq³  Roshan K. Nayak⁴  Azhar Abbas⁵ 

[1] Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, MNS University, Multan, Pakistan;Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Society, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;Department of Economics, Division of Management and Administrative Science, University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan;Division of Agricultural and Natural Resources, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States;Institute of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan;

关键词: SDGs;    sustainable food systems;    integrated resource management;    ecological sustainability;    food and nutritional security;    food diversity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fsufs.2023.1142826

 received in 2023-01-12, accepted in 2023-03-01,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Sustainable food systems are essential to ensure food security and mitigate climate change. Adaptation to climate change is part and parcel of sustainable food systems. Prior literature merely documented the climate-smart agricultural practices and explored the relationship with food security of adopters without taking the period of the strategies into account. Therefore, this study explored the factors affecting sustainable adaptation to climate change and created a further link between sustainable adaptation to climate change and the food security of rural households. The cross-sectional data were collected from 384 farmers through a face-to-face survey in Pakistan, selected by a multistage random sampling method. An ordered probit model and propensity score matching technique were used to analyze the data. Education, farm size, credit access, extension services, internet use for agriculture information, women's participation in farm-related decision making, and considering climate change a significant problem for agriculture were all positively influencing the sustainable adaptation to climate change at farms. The results indicated that farmers with a higher level of sustainable adaptation to climate change consumed more diversified diets and more daily calories as compared to those with a lower level of sustainable adaptation. Similarly, farmers with a lower level of sustainable adaptation to climate change had significantly lower food security than farmers with a high level of sustainable adaptation at their farms. This research indicated that farmers can gain food and nutrition benefits by becoming more sustainable adapters to climate change. This study has important policy implications for achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) of zero hunger (SDG 2) and climate action (SDG 13) in developing countries.

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