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Emerging trends

Perspectives on agriculture as a mitigation option Community action & leadership R Gopichandran & Kirit Shelat. Emerging trends . Enduring Farms. Altieri A A & Koohafkan P 2008 Third World Network Small farms & traditional agricultural systems can help mitigate through

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Emerging trends

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  1. Perspectives on agriculture as a mitigation option Community action & leadership R Gopichandran & KiritShelat Emerging trends

  2. Enduring Farms • Altieri A A & Koohafkan P 2008 Third World Network • Small farms & traditional agricultural systems can help mitigate through • carbon conservation • sequestration & • substitution • high bio-diversity more adaptable to weather events

  3. “Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)” FAO • Promote agricultural biodiversity • ustainyear round yields with less dependence on agrochemicals • Chinampas : Islands of productivity Mexico • Waru-Warus : platforms of soil surrounded by water pools - South America • Traditional water harvesting systems : India • Floodwater farming (also called floodwater harvesting) to manage sporadic flashfloods for crop production.

  4. Overseas Development Institute 2009 : • RiPPLE : Research-inspired Policy and Practice Learning in Ethiopia and the Nile Region: Link water and livelihood

  5. Intensive farming may ease climate change • Stanford University study: Less-productive agricultural systems would • Destroy larger areas of waste / uncultivated land, • Enhance greenhouse-gas emissions & • Reduce biodiversity. J. A. Burney et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.0914216107; 2010) Zerocarbonplatform: http://zerocarbonfarm.com/community/node/137 Jeff Tolefsonhttp://www.nature.com • Increasing crop yields preserve forests and other native lands: Borlaug hypothesis.

  6. Climate Witness • WWF Scientific Advisory Panels : M A TEAPs & M A TOCs • Empower people; be inclusive – identify impacts rather than telling what the impacts are. • Communities to engage – rather than just listen • Make it real – Connects issues with real experiences • Bring it home – Show climate change is here, not future, • Build a network - Engage people who are interested NCCSD – Bottom up approach.

  7. Eco system services • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment • Five major categories • Provisioning: production of food and water • Regulating: control of climate and disease • Supporting: nutrient cycles and crop pollination • Cultural: spiritual and recreational benefits & • Preserving: maintenance of diversity.

  8. Carbon Farming Initiative • January 2011 • Encourage biological farming methods • Reduce chemical inputs, fuel use, water consumption • Enhance • soil productivity & • diverse cropping systems. • Reduce GHG from manure management through regional biogas plants

  9. Way forward Community based Policy interventions Access to alternatives Cross cutting impacts Use local technical resources Knowledge and technology transfer • Inventory of best practices • Scout • Validate • Information gaps • Technical assistance • Upscale • Information on indicators • Pilots to differentiate natural & induced variations

  10. A chemical ecology perspective Plants Tri trophic interactions Landscape vis – a vis alternative hosts Allelochemicals Cross resistance Ecological conditioning • Age correlated biochemical profiles • Allelochemicals • Chemotypes • Allelopathic compounds • Natural & induced resistance • Yields • Transmission of tolerance characteristics

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