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Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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This book deals with one of the major challenges facing human
society and its governments, climate change and variability. The
principal objective of the book is to explore how agricultural
production through the actions primarily of farmers, including
peasant farmers, adapt to these changing circumstances, what the
limitations of adaptation are, how the process of adaptation varies
between different territories (e.g. developed countries versus
developing countries), and what are or can be the most effective
roles for actors other than the farmers, including different levels
of government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as
professional associations of farmers and community organizations.
The principal argument is threefold: 1) while there are significant
differences between territories and countries in terms of the
capacity of farmers (and the other actors) to engage in capacity
building to be able to adapt effectively to climate change and
variability, 2) the critical roles are those played out by the
farmers themselves, but that 3) other actors can play an important
role in accompanying farmers in their adaptation process, providing
relevant and strategic information, counseling them and
facilitating networking and meetings when appropriate. This
effectively means that without engaging in the local adaptation
processes governments can really only play effective roles by
working with other actors at the local and regional levels. When it
occurs, it can be very effective, but when it does not, farmers are
left to their own devices (and even then, many are able to use
their own creativity and local knowledge to survive and continue to
develop). Essentially therefore, the secondary argument that is
followed throughout the book is that adaptation is essentially a
social process that requires an understanding of social processes
and dynamics in each farming community and territory. It involves
an understanding, for instance, of information diffusion processes
in the different farming communities and territories, which
provides a set of tools to promote and facilitate the adoption
process in the context of adaptation to climate change and
variability.
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