Climate Smart Agriculture: Building Resilience to Climate Change (Natural Resource Management and Policy Book 52)

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license. The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of CSA. Focusing on the adaptation/resilience dimension of CSA, the text embraces a mixture of conceptual analyses, including theory, empirical and policy analysis, and case studies, to look at adaptation and resilience through three possible avenues: ex-ante reduction of vulnerability, increasing adaptive capacity, and ex-post risk coping. The book is divided into three sections. The first section provides conceptual framing, giving an overview of the CSA concept and grounding it in core economic principles. The second section is devoted to a set of case studies illustrating the economic basis of CSA in terms of reducing vulnerability, increasing adaptive capacity and ex-post risk coping. The final section addresses policy issues related to climate change. Providing information on this new and important field in an approachable way, this book helps make sense of CSA and fills intellectual and policy gaps by defining the concept and placing it within an economic decision-making framework. This book will be of interest to agricultural, environmental, and natural resource economists, development economists, and scholars of development studies, climate change, and agriculture. It will also appeal to policy-makers, development practitioners, and members of governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in agriculture, food security and climate change. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction and Overview (Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca)....Pages 3-12 A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and Its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates (Leslie Lipper, David Zilberman)....Pages 13-30 Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: An Overview (Nancy McCarthy, Leslie Lipper, David Zilberman)....Pages 31-47 Innovation in Response to Climate Change (David Zilberman, Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, Ben Gordon)....Pages 49-74 Front Matter ....Pages 75-75 Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Crop Yield Prediction and River Resource Planning (Alan Basist, Ariel Dinar, Brian Blankespoor, David Bachiochi, Harold Houba)....Pages 77-104 Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDR (Drew Behnke, Sam Heft-Neal, David Roland-Holst)....Pages 105-136 Farmers’ Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia: The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam (Hermann Waibel, Thi Hoa Pahlisch, Marc Völker)....Pages 137-160 U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts (Ariel Ortiz-Bobea)....Pages 161-172 Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts: An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Agriculture (Susan M. Capalbo, Clark Seavert, John M. Antle, Jenna Way, Laurie Houston)....Pages 173-197 Front Matter ....Pages 199-199 Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity? Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa (Michael R. Carter, Sarah A. Janzen, Quentin Stoeffler)....Pages 201-225 Can Cash Transfer Programmes Promote Household Resilience? Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (Solomon Asfaw, Benjamin Davis)....Pages 227-250 Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture: Current Realities and Future Potential (Tom S. Jayne, Nicholas J. Sitko, Nicole M. Mason, David Skole)....Pages 251-273 Front Matter ....Pages 275-275 Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria (Valentina Mereu, Monia Santini, Raffaello Cervigni, Benedicte Augeard, Francesco Bosello, E. Scoccimarro et al.)....Pages 277-306 Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems (John M. Antle, Sabine Homann-KeeTui, Katrien Descheemaeker, Patricia Masikati, Roberto O. Valdivia)....Pages 307-333 Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate (Thomas Reardon, David Zilberman)....Pages 335-351 The Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Information and Insurance Under Climate Change (Jamie Mullins, Joshua Graff Zivin, Andrea Cattaneo, Adriana Paolantonio, Romina Cavatassi)....Pages 353-383 A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries (Philip K. Thornton, Todd Rosenstock, Wiebke Förch, Christine Lamanna, Patrick Bell, Ben Henderson et al.)....Pages 385-423 Identifying Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence from Zambia (Oscar Cacho, Adriana Paolantonio, Giacomo Branca, Romina Cavatassi, Aslihan Arslan, Leslie Lipper)....Pages 425-441 Front Matter ....Pages 443-443 Climate Risk Management through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ephraim Nkonya, Jawoo Koo, Edward Kato, Timothy Johnson)....Pages 445-476 Improving the Resilience of Central Asian Agriculture to Weather Variability and Climate Change (Alisher Mirzabaev)....Pages 477-495 Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia (Salvatore Di Falco, Marcella Veronesi)....Pages 497-526 Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi (Aslihan Arslan, Solomon Asfaw, Romina Cavatassi, Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, Misael Kokwe et al.)....Pages 527-562 Economic Analysis of Improved Smallholder Paddy and Maize Production in Northern Viet Nam and Implications for Climate-Smart Agriculture (Giacomo Branca, Aslihan Arslan, Adriana Paolantonio, Romina Cavatassi, Nancy McCarthy, N. VanLinh et al.)....Pages 563-595 Front Matter ....Pages 597-597 Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA: Insights from a Panel of Global Policy Experts (Patrick Caron, Mahendra Dev, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Cao Duc Phat, Uma Lele, Pedro Sanchez et al.)....Pages 599-620 Conclusion and Policy Implications to “Climate Smart Agriculture: Building Resilience to Climate Change” (David Zilberman)....Pages 621-626 Back Matter ....Pages 627-630