Agriculture in the SADC Region Under Climate Change
The agricultural sector is of major social and economic importance in the SADC region. Several climate hazards including drought, unpredictable and extreme rainfall events, heatwaves and strong winds are adversely affecting the region’s predominantly rainfed (95% of cultivated area) agricultural sec...
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
2020
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| author | Gosling, Amanda Thornton, Philip K. Chevallier, Romy Chesterman, Sabrina |
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| description | The agricultural sector is of major social and economic importance in the SADC region. Several climate hazards including drought, unpredictable and extreme rainfall events, heatwaves and strong winds are adversely affecting the region’s predominantly rainfed (95% of cultivated area) agricultural sector The most common climate hazards that affected the SADC region between 1970 and 2020 were drought and extreme rainfall events. By 2059, it is projected that drought will be a widespread and common occurrence with extreme rainfall events affecting most of the northern areas of the region. Climate hazards impact all actors along the agricultural value chain from pre-production to consumption. These impacts are further complicated by a variety of external trends and drivers of change. To move towards a more resilient agricultural sector there is a need to implement enabling policies and public and private investments, adopt innovative technologies and good agricultural management practices. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1101002023-03-12T13:48:58Z Agriculture in the SADC Region Under Climate Change Gosling, Amanda Thornton, Philip K. Chevallier, Romy Chesterman, Sabrina climate change agriculture food security policies investment The agricultural sector is of major social and economic importance in the SADC region. Several climate hazards including drought, unpredictable and extreme rainfall events, heatwaves and strong winds are adversely affecting the region’s predominantly rainfed (95% of cultivated area) agricultural sector The most common climate hazards that affected the SADC region between 1970 and 2020 were drought and extreme rainfall events. By 2059, it is projected that drought will be a widespread and common occurrence with extreme rainfall events affecting most of the northern areas of the region. Climate hazards impact all actors along the agricultural value chain from pre-production to consumption. These impacts are further complicated by a variety of external trends and drivers of change. To move towards a more resilient agricultural sector there is a need to implement enabling policies and public and private investments, adopt innovative technologies and good agricultural management practices. 2020-11-09 2020-11-09T22:26:56Z 2020-11-09T22:26:56Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110100 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Gosling A, Thornton P, Chevallier R, Chesterman S. 2020. Agriculture in the SADC Region Under Climate Change. SADC Futures: Developing Foresight Capacity for Climate Resilient Agricultural Development Knowledge Series. CCAFS Report. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). |
| spellingShingle | climate change agriculture food security policies investment Gosling, Amanda Thornton, Philip K. Chevallier, Romy Chesterman, Sabrina Agriculture in the SADC Region Under Climate Change |
| title | Agriculture in the SADC Region Under Climate Change |
| title_full | Agriculture in the SADC Region Under Climate Change |
| title_fullStr | Agriculture in the SADC Region Under Climate Change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agriculture in the SADC Region Under Climate Change |
| title_short | Agriculture in the SADC Region Under Climate Change |
| title_sort | agriculture in the sadc region under climate change |
| topic | climate change agriculture food security policies investment |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110100 |
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