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

dc.contributor.authorNhamo, N.
dc.contributor.authorChikoye, D.
dc.contributor.authorGondwe, T.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:21:41Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:21:41Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationNhamo, 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).
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-12-810521-4
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/3852
dc.description.abstractSmart 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.
dc.format.extent295-306
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.subjectBiological Nitrogen Fixation
dc.subjectClimate
dc.subjectMolecular Markers
dc.subjectTechnology
dc.subjectClimate Smart Agriculture
dc.subjectClimate Change
dc.subjectValue Chain
dc.titleDelivering integrated climate-smart agricultural technologies for wider utilization in Southern Africa
dc.typeBook Chapter
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Africa
cg.coverage.countryMalawi
cg.coverage.countryZambia
cg.coverage.countryZimbabwe
cg.creator.identifierNhamo: 0000-0002-1182-6014
cg.creator.identifierDavid Chikoye: 0000-0002-6047-9821
cg.creator.identifierTherese Gondwe: 0000-0002-4522-7060
cg.researchthemePLANT PRODUCTION & HEALTH
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.iitasubjectClimate Change
cg.iitasubjectPlant Health
cg.iitasubjectPlant Production
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.howpublishedFormally Published
cg.publicationplaceAmsterdam, The Netherlands
cg.accessibilitystatusLimited Access
local.dspaceid96157
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-810521-4.00015-3


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