气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement

CCPortal

DOI	10.1080/14693062.2018.1501329
	Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement
	Amjath-Babu T.S.; Aggarwal P.K.; Vermeulen S.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	14693062
起始页码	283
结束页码	298
卷号	19 期号:3
英文摘要	The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement propose a country’s contribution to global mitigation efforts and domestic adaptation initiatives. This paper provides a systematic analysis of NDCs submitted by South Asian nations, in order to assess how far their commitments might deliver meaningful contributions to the global 2°C target and to sustainable broad-based adaptation benefits. Though agriculture-related emissions are prominent in emission profiles of South Asian countries, their emission reduction commitments are less likely to include agriculture, partly because of a concern over food security. We find that income-enhancing mitigation technologies that do not jeopardize food security may significantly augment the region’s mitigation potential. In the case of adaptation, analysis shows that the greatest effort will be directed towards protecting the cornerstones of the ‘green revolution’ for ensuring food security. Development of efficient and climate-resilient agricultural value chains and integrated farming bodies will be important to ensuring adaptation investment. Potentially useful models of landscape level climate resilience actions and ecosystem-based adaptation are also presented, along with estimates of the aggregate costs of agricultural adaptation. Countries in the region propose different mixes of domestic and foreign, and public and private, adaptation finance to meet the substantial gaps. Key policy insights Though substantial potential for mitigation of agricultural emissions exists in South Asia, governments in the region do not commit to agricultural emissions reductions in their NDCs. Large-scale adoption of income-enhancing technologies is the key to realizing agricultural mitigation potential in South Asia, whilst maintaining food security. Increasing resilience and profitability through structural changes, value chain interventions, and landscape-level actions may provide strong options to build adaptive capacity and enhance food security. Both private finance (autonomous adaptation) and international financial transfers will be required to close the substantial adaptation finance gap. © 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
英文关键词	agriculture; climate policy; NDCs; South Asia
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; agri-environmental policy; agricultural emission; emission control; environmental policy; food security; international agreement; mitigation; policy approach; targeting; South Asia
来源期刊	Climate Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/153426
作者单位	CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), New Delhi, India; Hoffmann Centre, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, United Kingdom; WWF International, Gland, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Amjath-Babu T.S.,Aggarwal P.K.,Vermeulen S.. Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement[J],2019,19(3).
APA	Amjath-Babu T.S.,Aggarwal P.K.,&Vermeulen S..(2019).Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement.Climate Policy,19(3).
MLA	Amjath-Babu T.S.,et al."Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement".Climate Policy 19.3(2019).