Preparing smallholder farm families to adapt to climate change: Pocket guide 1 - Extension practice for agricultural adaptation
This pocket guides follow a general four-step approach developed for designing and implementing responses to climate change to help reduce the vulnerability of small-scale farming systems. It includes: practical methods aimed to increase agricultural productivity sustainably; practices that protect the environment and reduce poverty; farming practices for individual farm families and communities to improve their resilience to climate change; practices that can reduce some of the causes of climate change.
Many of the families who farm small, non-irrigated plots in the tropics already struggle against poverty, degraded land, and rainfall that varies from year to year. This type of rainfed agriculture is especially vulnerable to climate change, although even irrigated agriculture can be vulnerable. The suggestions in these guides will help farm families and rural communities to make changes in their farming systems that can withstand and are adapted to changing weather patterns.
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