Coping with climate risk in agriculture needs farmer oriented research and extension policies

Participatory Research and Extension in Agriculture

Northwest U.S. Agriculture in a Changing Climate: Collaboratively Defined Research and Extension Priorities

Citation: Yorgey GG, Hall SA, Allen ER, Whitefield EM, Embertson NM, Jones VP, Saari BR, Rajagopalan K, Roesch-McNally GE, Van Horne B, Abatzoglou JT, Collins HP, Houston LL, Ewing TW and Kruger CE (2017) Northwest U.S. Agriculture in a Changing Climate: Collaboratively Defined Research and Extension Priorities. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:52. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00052 Northwest U.S. Agriculture...

Enhancing Farmer Productive Capacity: Case of Action Research Based Conservation Agriculture

The study sought to explore approaches for co-creation of conservation agriculture (CA) knowledge amongst farmers, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), government and specialist researchers. The aim of the study was to explore farmer initiated food security strategies among small holder resource poor farmers, through enhancement of farmers’ own productive capacity. The study was born out of th...

Coping with a changing climate: considerations for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture

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Coping with Climate Change

The paper concludes with a cautionary note that adaptation is not a panacea. It should not be the only strategy considered for the reduction of risks posed by climate change. Adaptation comes at a cost and society has limited resources to devote to this activity. Also, there are uncertainties associated with the effectiveness of any adaptive response. Any portfolio of climate change policies sh...