Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya
Changes in the agriculture sector are essential to mitigate and adapt to climate change, ensure food security for the growing population, and improve the livelihoods of poor smallholder producers. What agricultural strategies are needed to meet these challenges? To what extent are there synergies am...
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| author | Bryan, Elizabeth Ringler, Claudia Okoba, Barrack Koo, Jawoo Herrero, Mario Silvestri, Silvia |
| author_browse | Bryan, Elizabeth Herrero, Mario Koo, Jawoo Okoba, Barrack Ringler, Claudia Silvestri, Silvia |
| author_facet | Bryan, Elizabeth Ringler, Claudia Okoba, Barrack Koo, Jawoo Herrero, Mario Silvestri, Silvia |
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| description | Changes in the agriculture sector are essential to mitigate and adapt to climate change, ensure food security for the growing population, and improve the livelihoods of poor smallholder producers. What agricultural strategies are needed to meet these challenges? To what extent are there synergies among these strategies? This paper examines these issues for smallholder producers in Kenya. Several practices emerge as triple wins in terms of climate adaptation, GHG mitigation, and productivity and profitability. In particular, integrated soil fertility management and improved livestock feeding are shown to provide multiple benefits across the agroecological zones examined. In addition, irrigation and soil and water conservation are also shown to be essential in the arid zone. The results suggest that agricultural investments targeted towards triple-win strategies will have the greatest payoff in terms of increased resilience of farm and pastoralist households to climate change, rural development, and climate change mitigation for generations to come. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1548372025-11-06T07:12:32Z Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya Bryan, Elizabeth Ringler, Claudia Okoba, Barrack Koo, Jawoo Herrero, Mario Silvestri, Silvia adaptation agricultural land management climate change livestock feeding mitigation resilience synergism Changes in the agriculture sector are essential to mitigate and adapt to climate change, ensure food security for the growing population, and improve the livelihoods of poor smallholder producers. What agricultural strategies are needed to meet these challenges? To what extent are there synergies among these strategies? This paper examines these issues for smallholder producers in Kenya. Several practices emerge as triple wins in terms of climate adaptation, GHG mitigation, and productivity and profitability. In particular, integrated soil fertility management and improved livestock feeding are shown to provide multiple benefits across the agroecological zones examined. In addition, irrigation and soil and water conservation are also shown to be essential in the arid zone. The results suggest that agricultural investments targeted towards triple-win strategies will have the greatest payoff in terms of increased resilience of farm and pastoralist households to climate change, rural development, and climate change mitigation for generations to come. 2011 2024-10-01T14:04:14Z 2024-10-01T14:04:14Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154837 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia; Okoba, Barrack; Koo, Jawoo; Herrero, Mario; Silvestri, Silvia. 2011. Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1098. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154837 |
| spellingShingle | adaptation agricultural land management climate change livestock feeding mitigation resilience synergism Bryan, Elizabeth Ringler, Claudia Okoba, Barrack Koo, Jawoo Herrero, Mario Silvestri, Silvia Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya |
| title | Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya |
| title_full | Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya |
| title_short | Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya |
| title_sort | agricultural management for climate change adaptation greenhouse gas mitigation and agricultural productivity insights from kenya |
| topic | adaptation agricultural land management climate change livestock feeding mitigation resilience synergism |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154837 |
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