Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Climatology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 April 2022) | Viewed by 3946
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although agriculture's contribution to the global economy is decreasing, agriculture continues to play vital roles developing and developing countries. First, agriculture is livelihood of a substantial portion of the population in emerging economies. Second, agriculture contributes significantly to the local and national economies by generating food and raw materials for industry. Agriculture's contributions to the economy and human well-being are inextricably linked to disaster challenges. Agriculture is shaped by the environment, and weather extremes, and the later, depending on their magnitude, extent, and arrival time, can easily harm production. Extreme rainfall variability that leads to floods and droughts can cause catastrophic harm to crops at various stages of development. Furthermore, agriculture lands on the coasts are vulnerable to high tides and cyclonic storms.
Climate change spawned weather patterns such as cyclonic storms, high tides and tidal surges, sea level rise, extreme precipitation and floods, droughts, heat and cold waves are already wreaking havoc on humans and agriculture. Developing countries with low adaptive capacity and high dependency on agriculture will be more vulnerable to climate change though agriculture in industrialized countries also will not be immune to the threats. Approximately 800 million people are currently food insecure, with the majority of them living in climate-vulnerable Africa and Asia. Food production must increase by at least 60% by 2050 to feed growing population but climate change has become a significant threat to agriculture sector. To facilitate this goal, agriculture sector must receive unrestricted support for climate change adaptation.
The special issue of the Journal “Atmosphere”’ will focus on:
- Identifying and assessing risks and vulnerability of agriculture to climate change and variability
- Adaptation options to climate extremes for the agriculture sector and their economic costs
- Institutional challenges for adaptation in agriculture sector
- Synchronization of indigenous knowledge and modern innovation for a greater benefit of adaptation
- Assessment of co-benefits of adaptation and mitigation in agriculture
- Adaptation for facilitating food security and SDG goals
Dr. Monirul Mirza
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- agriculture
- risks and vulnerability
- adaptation options
- economic costs
- institutional challenges
- food security and SDG goals
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