Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change - Climate-smart Agriculture: Adoption, Impacts, and Implications for Sustainable Development
Call for Papers
Climate change reduces agricultural productivity and leads to greater instability in crop production, disrupting the global food supply and resulting in food and nutritional insecurity. A transformation of the agricultural sector towards climate-resilient practices is urgently needed to successfully tackle food security and climate change challenges. Climate-smart agriculture is an approach that guides farmers’ actions to transform agri-food systems towards building the agricultural sector’s resilience to climate change based on three pillars: increasing farm productivity and incomes, enhancing the resilience of livelihoods and ecosystems, and reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere. Promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices is crucial to improve smallholder farmers’ capacity to adapt to climate change and mitigate its impact, as well as help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Although smallholder farmers worldwide have adopted numerous practices and technologies (e.g., integrated crop systems, improved pest, water, and nutrient management, improved grassland management, reduced tillage and use of diverse varieties and breeds, restoring degraded lands, and improved the efficiency of input use) to reach the objectives of climate-smart agriculture, the increased uncertainty that climate change imposes calls for more flexible and rapid response capacity in smallholder farming systems.
With this special issue, we seek to comprehensively understand the associations between climate-smart agriculture and sustainable agricultural development. To achieve this goal, we aim to find answers to these questions: What are the climate-smart agricultural practices and technologies (either single or multiple) that are currently adopted in smallholder farming systems? What are the key barriers, challenges, and drivers of promoting climate-smart agricultural practices? What are the impacts of adopting these practices? Answers to these questions will help devise appropriate solutions for promoting sustainable agricultural production and rural development. They will also provide insights for policymakers to design appropriate policy instruments to develop agricultural practices and technologies and promote them to sustainably enhance the farm sector’s resilience to climate change and increase productivity.
We invite high-quality empirical and applied research papers discussing climate-smart agriculture focusing on Asian countries. Submissions from other countries are equally welcome. Articles devoted to literature review and meta-analysis are also considered. Research exploring the following themes (and other topics related to climate-smart agriculture) will be considered:
Adoption
Barriers and drives in the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practicesChallenges of adopting climate-smart agricultural practicesFarmers’ awareness and willingness to paySocio-demographic characteristics and climate-smart agricultural practicesThe role of development programs (e.g., government programs, collective action, or farmer organizations) in promoting climate-smart agricultural practices
Impacts on
Farm economic performance (e.g., crop yield, revenue, productivity, efficiency, production diversity, quality upgrading, and production risks)Agri-food system transformationCost-benefit analysisRural livelihoods (e.g., income, consumption, food security, nutrition intake, and dietary diversity)Subjective well-being (e.g., happiness, life satisfaction, and loneliness) Gender empowerment and intra-household decision-making (e.g., labour allocation and migration)Gender differentiated outcomesFarmers’ resilience to climate change
Submission guidelines:
All submissions must contain papers that are original and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts must comply with the Submission guidelines (this opens in a new tab) for Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. There are no submission fees. Submission can be made through the journal’s online system at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/miti/default2.aspx (this opens in a new tab). When submitting your article, please select the Special Issue name: “SI: Climate-smart Agriculture”. All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review and editorial processes following the policies of the Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change journal.The guest editors will first review papers submitted to the special issue. A paper may be rejected without being sent for review should the guest editors review the papers as unsuitable for the journal and special issue in terms of quality or aims and scope. The selected submissions will undergo an expedited review. All accepted papers will be published online first, and then they will be listed together in a journal issue once all of the special issue papers are published online.
The submission deadline is 31 August 2023.
ADBI Conference
Authors of selected papers will be invited to present at the Virtual International Conference for the Special Issue organized by the Asian Development Bank Institute (this opens in a new tab) (ADBI) on 30-31 October 2023. Papers submitted to the Special Issue will undergo a normal journal review process, starting as soon as the paper passes the preliminary selection. However, the final decision of “acceptance” will be made after the conference. This will allow authors to incorporate feedback received during the conference into their manuscripts.
Enquiries
We look forward to receiving your submission and are happy to answer any questions you may have. For enquiries, you may directly contact Prof. Wanglin Ma at Wanglin.Ma@lincoln.ac.nz (this opens in a new tab) and Dr. Dil Rahut at drahut@adbi.org (this opens in a new tab)
Guest Editors
Wanglin Ma
(Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Wanglin.Ma@lincoln.ac.nz (this opens in a new tab)
Dil Rahut
(Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan)
drahut@adbi.org (this opens in a new tab)