The three main components of climate change agriculture are.
1. Sustainable Intensification: This involves increasing productivity while minimizing the negative environmental impacts of farming.
This can be achieved through the use of precision
agriculture techniques, such as precision irrigation, fertilization, and pest
management. The goal is to increase yields while reducing inputs, such as
water, fertilizer, and pesticides, which are not pocket friendly to the farmers
and the negative environmental impacts are needless to mention.
2. Adaptation: As discussed above the changing weather patterns disrupts the farmers planned farm activities.
Here
climate smart agriculture provides a range pf techniques like crop
diversification, improved water management (drip irrigation, rainwater
harvesting, conservation tillage etc), conservation agriculture (reducing
tillage, leaving crop residues), agroforestry, adopting Integrated Pest
Management and use of biopesticides.
3. Mitigation: Agriculture is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for around 10-12% of global emissions.
Climate smart agriculture involves adopting
improved nutrient management by using precision fertilization as fertilizer use
is a significant source of GHG emissions. Improve livestock management but
feeding animals diet where they produce less methane. Also reducing tillage as
it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from the soil adding all these
with the use of renewable energy can major cut GHG emissions.
