Climate Change-Resilient Agriculture and Agroforestry: Ecosystem Services and Sustainability

518 Pages·2019·11.09 MB·English

by  Paula Castro

Climate Change Management
Paula Castro
Anabela Marisa Azul · Walter Leal Filho
Ulisses M. Azeiteiro Editors
Climate Change-
Resilient
Agriculture and
Agroforestry
Ecosystem Services and Sustainability
Climate Change Management
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Walter Leal Filho, Faculty of Life Sciences, Research and Transfer Centre,
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany
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Paula Castro Anabela Marisa Azul
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Walter Leal Filho Ulisses M. Azeiteiro
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Editors
Climate Change-Resilient
Agriculture and Agroforestry
Ecosystem Services and Sustainability
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Editors
PaulaCastro Walter LealFilho
CFE- Centrefor Functional Ecology - Faculty of LifeSciences
Science for People&the Planet, HAWHamburg
Department ofLife Sciences Hamburg,Germany
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, Portugal Ulisses M.Azeiteiro
DepartmentofBiologyandCESAM,Centre
Anabela Marisa Azul for Environmental andMarine Studies
Centerfor Neuroscience andCell Biology University of Aveiro
University of Coimbra Aveiro, Portugal
Coimbra, Portugal
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Climate Change Management
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Preface
Climate change and its impacts on agriculture and on agroforestry have been
observedacrosstheworldduringthelast50years.Theyhavebeenthreateningthe
stability in ecosystems and people well-being. Increasing temperatures, droughts
and biotic stresses and the impacts of extreme events have continuously decreased
agroforestry systems’ resilience to climate change. As it is now, we need a new
vision for research, management, education and learning, since they are important
drivers in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals as a whole, and SDG 13
(climate action) in particular.
There is a perceived need to adapt farming and agroforestry systems so as to
make them better able tohandle ever-changing climate conditions, and topreserve
habitats and ecosystems services. More efficient management practices and
new/innovative agroforestry solutions are required and must incorporate the
regional and local abiotic factors of climate, soil, water and nutrient balances as
well as the biotic conditions (e.g. pests, diseases and dispersal agents). Also fos-
tering activities related to traditional culture and improving education and learning
on biodiversityand ecosystem services aredecisive asthey are stepping stonesfor
sustainable development supporting ecosystem’s conservation, livelihood and
sustenance of populations.
It is based on the need to tackle this topic that this book has been produced. It
aims at assembling wide-ranging contributions from case studies, reviews, reports
on technological developments, outputs of research/studies and examples of suc-
cessful projects, as well conceptual approaches, which document current knowl-
edge,raiseawarenessandhelptheagricultureandforestsectorstoadapttoclimate
changeasitbringsthethemeecosystems’servicesclosertoeducationandlearning,
as an added value to strategic principles for healthy and valued ecosystems and
sustainable human development.
Thebookentailscontributionsinavarietyofareas,includingecosystemservices
and incentive mechanisms for environmental preservation, unlocking the social–
ecological resilience of High Nature Value farmlands to future climate change,
climate-smart agricultural practices (CSA) adoption by crop farmers in semi-arid
regions,futureclimatechange impactsonagriculture basedonmulti-model results
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from WCRP’s CMIP5 and the urgent need for enhancing forest ecosystem resi-
lience under the anticipated climate portfolio.
The book contains also papers addressing the issue of sustainable food systems
in culturally coherent social contexts, and multifunctional urban agriculture and
agroforestryforsustainablelanduseplanninginthecontextofclimatechange.All
in all, an interesting set of papers gathering information and knowledge which
outline the potentials and environmental risks related to agricultural and agro-
forestry landscapes under a changing climate.
We hope that this publication will prove useful to all those working in the field
of climate change as it relates to agriculture and agroforestry, and that it may
catalyse further initiatives in this important field.
Coimbra, Portugal Paula Castro
Coimbra, Portugal Anabela Marisa Azul
Hamburg, Germany Walter Leal Filho
Aveiro, Portugal Ulisses M. Azeiteiro
Contents
Terraced Agroforestry Systems in West Anti-Atlas (Morocco):
Incidence of Climate Change and Prospects for Sustainable
Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Mohamed Ziyadi, Abdallah Dahbi, Abderahmane Aitlhaj,
Abdeltif El Ouahrani, Abdelhadi El Ouahidi and Hafid Achtak
Increasing Pulse Consumption to Improve Human Health
and Food Security and to Mitigate Climate Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Beatriz Oliveira, Ana Pinto de Moura and Luís Miguel Cunha
Ecosystem Services and Incentive Mechanisms for Environmental
Preservation in Brazil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti, Walter Leal Filho
and Ulisses M. Azeiteiro
Are We Missing the Big Picture? Unlocking the Social-Ecological
Resilience of High Nature Value Farmlands to Future
Climate Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
A. Lomba, A. Buchadas, João P. Honrado and F. Moreira
Profitability of Cassava Based Farms Adopting Climate Smart
Agriculture (CSA) Practices in Delta State, Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anthony O. Onoja, Joshua Agbomedarho, Ibisime Etela
and Eunice N. Ajie
Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices (CSA) Adoption by Crop
Farmers in Semi-arid Regions of West and East Africa:
Evidence from Nigeria and Ethiopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anthony O. Onoja, Amanuel Z. Abraha, Atkilt Girma
and Anthonia I. Achike
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Challenges, Futures and Possibilities of Land Use in Rural Areas
of Cela Municipality: Risks, Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation
and Links to Sustainability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Bernardo Castro
Future Climate Change Impacts on Malta’s Agriculture,
Based on Multi-model Results from WCRP’s CMIP5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Charles Galdies and Kimberly Vella
The Urgent Need for Enhancing Forest Ecosystem Resilience
Under the Anticipated Climate Portfolio Over Kerala Under
RCP 4.5 and Its Possible Implications on Forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Praveen Dhanya and Andimuthu Ramachandran
Mediterranean Marginal Lands in Face of Climate Change:
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Helena Castro and Paula Castro
Sustainable Food Systems in Culturally Coherent Social Contexts:
Discussions Around Culture, Sustainability, Climate Change
and the Mediterranean Diet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
F. Xavier Medina
Multifunctional Urban Agriculture and Agroforestry for Sustainable
Land Use Planning in the Context of Climate Change in Serbia . . . . . . 197
Jelena Živanović Miljković and Tijana Crnčević
Alien Plant Species: Environmental Risks in Agricultural
and Agro-Forest Landscapes Under Climate Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Joana R. Vicente, Ana Sofia Vaz, Ana Isabel Queiroz, Ana R. Buchadas,
AntoineGuisan,ChristophKueffer,ElizabeteMarchante,HéliaMarchante,
João A. Cabral, Maike Nesper, Olivier Broennimann, Oscar Godoy,
Paulo Alves, Pilar Castro-Díez, Renato Henriques and João P. Honrado
Remote Sensing of Droughts Impacts on Maize Prices
Using SPOT-VGT Derived Vegetation Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
John A. Ogbodo, Ejiet John Wasige, Sakirat M. Shuaibu, Timothy Dube
and Samuel Emeka Anarah
AnthropicActionEffectsCausedbySoybeanFarmersinaWatershed
of Tocantins—Brazil and Its Connections with Climate Change . . . . . . 257
José Jamil Fernandes Martins, Amadeu M. V. M. Soares,
Ulisses M. Azeiteiro and Mauro Lucio Torres Correia
Enhancing Food Security and Climate Change Resilience
in Degraded Land Areas by Resilient Crops and Agroforestry . . . . . . . 283
Muhammad Saqib, Javaid Akhtar, Ghulam Abbas and Ghulam Murtaza
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Community Participation in Climate Change Mitigation Research
in the Arid and Semi-Arid Areas of Sudan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
N. A. Mutwali, M. E. Ballal and A. M. Farah
Using of Optimization Strategy for Reducing Water Scarcity
in the Face of Climate Change. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Mohammad Javad Zareian and Saeid Eslamian
Climate Change Impact on Agriculture and Irrigation Network . . . . . . 333
Zohreh Dehghan, Farshad Fathian and Saeid Eslamian
Implication of Climate Change and Food Security Status
on Rural Farmers in Kura Kano State North–Western Nigeria. . . . . . . 355
Salisu Lawal Halliru
Decentralised, Off-Grid Solar Pump Irrigation Systems
in Developing Countries—Are They Pro-poor, Pro-environment
and Pro-women? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Sam Wong
Livestock Technologies and Grazing Land Management Options
for Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation as a Contribution
for Food Security in Ethiopia: A Brief Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
Shigdaf Mekuriaw, Alemayehu Mengistu and Firew Tegegne
Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security in Ethiopia:
Adaptation and Mitigation Options: A Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
Tadesse Alemu and Alemayehu Mengistu
Comparative Study on Agriculture and Forestry Climate
Change Adaptation Projects in Mongolia, the Philippines,
and Timor Leste. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Cynthia Juwita Ismail, Takeshi Takama, Ibnu Budiman
and Michele Knight
Perceiving, Raising Awareness and Policy Action to Address
Pollinator Decline in Nigeria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Thomas Aneni, Charles Aisagbonhi, Victor Adaigbe
and Cosmas Aghayedo
Promoting Circular Economy Through Sustainable Agriculture
in Hidalgo: Recycling of Agro-Industrial Waste for Production
of High Nutritional Native Mushrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
MaríaVirginiaOzcariz-Fermoselle,GabrieladeVega-Luttmann,Fernando
de Jesús Lugo-Monter, Cristina Galhano and Oscar Arce-Cervantes