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ACRES - Agricultural Climate Resilience to El-Nino in sub-Saharan Africa

ACRES - 撒哈拉以南非洲农业对厄尔尼诺现象的气候适应能力

基本信息

批准号：
NE/P004091/1
负责人：
Andrew Dougill
金额：
$ 40.11万
依托单位：
University of Leeds
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FP004091%2F1
关键词：
ACRES Agricultural Climate Resilience El

项目摘要

El Niño related droughts are leaving many millions of southern African smallholder farmers facing hunger, whilst at the same time above average rains are being experienced in parts of East Africa. The differential impacts of extreme events on farmers who have adapted their land management practices to become more "climate-smart" are poorly understood and quantified. Assessing the impacts of Conservation Agriculture (CA) on climate resilience of smallholder farming systems is the focus of this comparative ACRES project led by an experienced cross-disciplinary team. A temporal component to studies will be enabled by links to past and ongoing studies in SE Kenya and southern Malawi. The wider significance of such new data will be contextualised through a continent wide meta-analysis of past CA studies that will provide an easily accessible database and identification of climate specific land management advice to global partner organisations to provide context-relevant guidance on Climate Smart Agriculture practices. This will provide vital insights on the contributions of CA to enhancing climate resilience of agricultural livelihoods and explicit consideration of societal and gendered components of farmer decision-making which have been stressed as urgent needs by development NGOs and Government agencies alike. The current El Niño event offers an opportunity for repeat study of crop pest issues in the Kenya case, especially given the recognised similarity to the 1997/98 event (NOAA, 2015). This project will also enable comparison with Malawi studies where an ongoing research programme is exploring CA decision-making, use of climate service information and monitoring of crop pests under different land management practices.Directly comparable integrated participatory and environmental crop pest survey approaches will be adopted in both case study regions. New evidence on crop pests, diseases and land management decisions will be provided by participatory approaches gaining farmers' observations about crop pests / diseases and will be cross-validated by sampling of grain stores for pests and diseases in both study areas. The comparative case study approach, and its alignment to the wider meta-analysis study, will allow for improved understanding of what works in terms of land management practices enhancing resilience to extreme climate variability. The project outputs will enable lesson learning across locations with improved understanding of the capabilities and limitations of CA in a contextualised way as required to inform extension messages and to guide future CA project planning and institutional support structures. The project stems from a series of multi-stakeholder research planning events led from across the project team in both study countries. This co-production or research priorities will enable us to ensure that ACRES outputs are tailored to the needs of major donors (e.g. World Bank, African Development Bank, DFID), Government Departments, NGOs (Christian Aid, Care International, Concern Worldwide, Total Land Care) and to private sector companies (e.g. Ilovo Sugar in southern Malawi). These multiple stakeholder links (at range of governance levels) will ensure that findings and agricultural land management lessons are shared beyond the smallholder farmers who are the focus of the study.

与厄尔尼诺有关的干旱使南部非洲数百万小农面临饥饿，而与此同时，东非部分地区的降雨量高于平均水平。对于那些调整了土地管理做法以变得更加“气候智能型”的农民，极端事件对他们的不同影响了解甚少，也难以量化。评估保护性农业（CA）对小农耕作系统气候适应能力的影响是由经验丰富的跨学科团队领导的比较ACRES项目的重点。一个时间组成部分的研究将启用链接到过去和正在进行的研究在东南肯尼亚和马拉维南部。这些新数据的更广泛意义将通过对过去的保护性耕作研究进行全大陆范围的元分析来加以说明，这将为全球合作伙伴组织提供一个易于访问的数据库，并确定气候特定的土地管理建议，以便为气候智能型农业实践提供与背景相关的指导。这将提供关于保护性气候变化对提高农业生计的气候适应能力的贡献的重要见解，并明确考虑农民决策的社会和性别因素，这些因素一直被发展非政府组织和政府机构强调为迫切需要。目前的厄尔尼诺现象为肯尼亚的作物虫害问题提供了一个重复研究的机会，特别是考虑到与1997/98年事件的相似性（NOAA，2015）。该项目还将与马拉维的研究进行比较，马拉维的一个正在进行的研究方案正在探索保护性耕作决策、利用气候服务信息和监测不同土地管理做法下的作物虫害，这两个案例研究区域将采用直接可比的综合参与性和环境作物虫害调查方法。将通过参与性办法收集农民对作物病虫害的观察，提供关于作物病虫害和土地管理决定的新证据，并通过对两个研究地区的谷物仓库进行病虫害抽样进行交叉验证。比较案例研究方法及其与更广泛的元分析研究的一致性，将有助于更好地了解在土地管理做法方面哪些做法有效，从而增强对极端气候变异的抗御力。项目产出将使各地能够吸取经验教训，根据需要以情境化的方式更好地了解保护性耕作的能力和局限性，以告知推广信息，并指导未来的保护性耕作项目规划和机构支持结构。该项目源于两个研究国家的项目团队领导的一系列多方利益攸关方研究规划活动。这种合作生产或研究优先事项将使我们能够确保ACRES的产出符合主要捐助者（如世界银行、非洲开发银行、国际开发部）、政府部门、非政府组织（基督教援助会、援外社国际协会、全球关注组织、全面土地保护组织）和私营部门公司（如马拉维南部的Ilovo Sugar）的需要。这些多个利益攸关方的联系（在一系列治理层面）将确保研究结果和农业土地管理经验教训在作为研究重点的小农户之外得到分享。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（6）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Farming systems and Conservation Agriculture: Technology, structures and agency in Malawi

农业系统和保护性农业：马拉维的技术、结构和机构

DOI：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104612
发表时间：
2020
期刊：
Land Use Policy
影响因子：
7.1
作者：
Jew E
通讯作者：
Jew E

Conservation agriculture enhances resistance of maize to climate stress in a Malawian medium-term trial

在马拉维的一项中期试验中，保护性农业增强了玉米对气候胁迫的抵抗力

DOI：
10.1016/j.agee.2018.07.009
发表时间：
2019
期刊：
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
影响因子：
0
作者：
Steward P
通讯作者：
Steward P

The adaptive capacity of maize-based conservation agriculture systems to climate stress in tropical and subtropical environments: A meta-regression of yields

DOI：
10.1016/j.agee.2017.09.019
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
影响因子：
0
作者：
P. Steward;A. Dougill;C. Thierfelder;C. Pittelkow;L. Stringer;Maxwell Kudzala;Gorm E. Shackelford
通讯作者：
P. Steward;A. Dougill;C. Thierfelder;C. Pittelkow;L. Stringer;Maxwell Kudzala;Gorm E. Shackelford

Can smallholder farmers buffer rainfall variability through conservation agriculture? On-farm practices and maize yields in Kenya and Malawi

小农能否通过保护性农业缓冲降雨变化？