Climate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement

dc.creatorAmjath Babu, T.S.
dc.creatorAggarwal, P.K.
dc.creatorVermeulen, S.
dc.date2019-12-13T20:49:39Z
dc.date2019-12-13T20:49:39Z
dc.date2019
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-17T20:05:07Z
dc.date.available2023-07-17T20:05:07Z
dc.identifier1469-3062
dc.identifier1752-7457 (Online)
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/20521
dc.identifier10.1080/14693062.2018.1501329
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/7512333
dc.descriptionThe Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted under the Paris Agreement propose a country’s contribution to global mitigation efforts and domestic adaptation initiatives. This paper provides a systematic analysis of NDCs submitted by South Asian nations, in order to assess how far their commitments might deliver meaningful contributions to the global 2°C target and to sustainable broad-based adaptation benefits. Though agriculture-related emissions are prominent in emission profiles of South Asian countries, their emission reduction commitments are less likely to include agriculture, partly because of a concern over food security. We find that income-enhancing mitigation technologies that do not jeopardize food security may significantly augment the region’s mitigation potential. In the case of adaptation, analysis shows that the greatest effort will be directed towards protecting the cornerstones of the ‘green revolution’ for ensuring food security. Development of efficient and climate-resilient agricultural value chains and integrated farming bodies will be important to ensuring adaptation investment. Potentially useful models of landscape level climate resilience actions and ecosystem-based adaptation are also presented, along with estimates of the aggregate costs of agricultural adaptation. Countries in the region propose different mixes of domestic and foreign, and public and private, adaptation finance to meet the substantial gaps.
dc.description283-298
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
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dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.source3
dc.source19
dc.sourceClimate Policy
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
dc.subjectENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.titleClimate action for food security in South Asia? Analyzing the role of agriculture in nationally determined contributions to the Paris agreement
dc.typeArticle
dc.typePublished Version
dc.coverageSOUTH ASIA
dc.coverageUnited Kingdom


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