Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa

Smart agricultural technologies are required to advance the development, productivity, and sustainability of the crop and livestock value chains. Several steps are required to fully deploy novel agricultural technologies to millions of smallholder farmers and assist countries in southern Africa to a...

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Autores principales: Nhamo, N., Chikoye, David, Gondwe, T.
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93035
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author Nhamo, N.
Chikoye, David
Gondwe, T.
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Gondwe, T.
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description Smart agricultural technologies are required to advance the development, productivity, and sustainability of the crop and livestock value chains. Several steps are required to fully deploy novel agricultural technologies to millions of smallholder farmers and assist countries in southern Africa to attain the United Nation sustainable development goals on combating climate change and its impacts through climate smart solutions (Goal 13), eradication of poverty and hunger (Goal 1 and 2), creation of decent jobs (Goal 8), environmental protection (Goal 6 and 12), and provision of health (Goal 3) through agricultural enterprises. In reaching out to farmers with suitable technical agricultural interventions we advocate for the integration of knowledge on improved practices, bringing together a suite of technologies, effective institutional rearrangements of stakeholders on value chains, improved information management, and dissemination techniques. Proper targeting of marginalized groups with potential for growth, use of decision support tools to maintain the farm yield projections, and lobbying for a policy framework that is supportive of all the facets are imminent. Climate smart technologies will play a critical role in guiding the trajectory of cropping systems productivity, increasing sustainability, and reducing the risk of widespread hunger in most countries in southern Africa.
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spelling CGSpace930352024-04-25T06:01:38Z Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa Nhamo, N. Chikoye, David Gondwe, T. biological nitrogen fixation climate molecular markers technology climate smart agriculture climate change value chain Smart agricultural technologies are required to advance the development, productivity, and sustainability of the crop and livestock value chains. Several steps are required to fully deploy novel agricultural technologies to millions of smallholder farmers and assist countries in southern Africa to attain the United Nation sustainable development goals on combating climate change and its impacts through climate smart solutions (Goal 13), eradication of poverty and hunger (Goal 1 and 2), creation of decent jobs (Goal 8), environmental protection (Goal 6 and 12), and provision of health (Goal 3) through agricultural enterprises. In reaching out to farmers with suitable technical agricultural interventions we advocate for the integration of knowledge on improved practices, bringing together a suite of technologies, effective institutional rearrangements of stakeholders on value chains, improved information management, and dissemination techniques. Proper targeting of marginalized groups with potential for growth, use of decision support tools to maintain the farm yield projections, and lobbying for a policy framework that is supportive of all the facets are imminent. Climate smart technologies will play a critical role in guiding the trajectory of cropping systems productivity, increasing sustainability, and reducing the risk of widespread hunger in most countries in southern Africa. 2017 2018-06-05T08:51:04Z 2018-06-05T08:51:04Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93035 en Limited Access Elsevier Nhamo, N., Chikoye, D., & Gondwe, T. (2017). Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa. In D. Chikoye, T. Gondwe and N. Nhamo, Smart technologies for sustainable smallholder agriculture. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, (p. 295-306).
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climate change
value chain
Nhamo, N.
Chikoye, David
Gondwe, T.
Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa
title Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa
title_full Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa
title_fullStr Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa
title_full_unstemmed Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa
title_short Delivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa
title_sort delivering integrated climate smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in southern africa
topic biological nitrogen fixation
climate
molecular markers
technology
climate smart agriculture
climate change
value chain
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/93035
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