Conveners
Climate change adaptation and mitigation
- Marlene Palka
- Audrey Alignier
Introduction
Crop-livestock systems at landscape level consist of interactions between farms (often specialized) promoting ecological interactions over space and time between crops, pastures and livestock sub-systems. They can increase resources circularity to satisfy short-term (e.g. farm autonomy) and long-term goals (e.g. resilience to climatic hazards and agricultural practices...
Food systems are at the core of numerous negative impacts, involving e.g. greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity or human health. To address part of these problems, there were multiple calls to reduce or even suppress animal products in human diets (Tilman and Clark, 2014). However there is still no consensus regarding the extent of reduction of these animal source foods to mitigate the...
1. Introduction
Although breeding progress is contributing to climate change mitigation through increased land use efficiency (Laidig et al., 2021), nitrogen use efficiency (Laidig et al., 2024), and a decreased carbon footprint (Riedesel et al., 2022), increasingly adverse weather conditions exert negative impacts on crop production and food security. Crop modeling serves as a powerful...
Introduction
Process-based crop models are helpful tools in studying genotype × environment × management (G × E × M) interactions in agriculture (Boote et al., 2013). With climate change (CC) threatening global food security through increased droughts, higher temperatures, and altered precipitation patterns, understanding its potential effects on crop production is crucial...
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Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces significant food availability issues largely due to low soil fertility leading to low crop yields. Climate change is expected to exacerbate these issues due to a combined negative impact on crop yield and soil fertility. Integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) implies the combined use of mineral and organic fertilizers and is seen as a...
