Smart integration of animals and crops to survive climate change in Africa

该集群的目的是将关于气候变化对作物和牲畜系统影响的研究结合起来，以评估整个小农系统面临的风险，并制定适当的适应措施。我们关注系统中作物或动物方面的失败风险，从不利的天气和害虫（作物失败），或营养不良和疾病（牲畜失败）。我们的前提是，家庭抵御气候变化能力的一个关键组成部分是作物和牲畜的整合，从而使受影响较小的组成部分能够克服冲击。这在原则上是公认的，然而，关于气候变化影响的研究往往要么关注具体的组成部分，要么关注一般的社会和经济恢复能力。通过整合特定气候风险预测方面的科学进展，我们将能够更好地确定通过利用其他部分的对比风险概况来缓冲一个组成部分风险的策略。此外，我们寻求利用气候智能型农业的决策支持系统，这些系统从支撑GCRF项目中产生，但针对具体组成部分，以建立围绕气候风险的交流和能力建设共享平台，用于战略和实时应用。

The aim of the cluster is to combine research on the impacts of climate change on crop and livestock systems to evaluate risks to smallholder systems as a whole, and to develop appropriate adaptation.We focus on risks of failure of the crop or animal sides of the system, from adverse weather and pests (crop failure), or undernutrition and disease (livestock failure). Our premise is that a key component of household resilience to climate change is integration of crops and livestock, such that less affected components enable shocks to be overcome. This is well recognised in principle, yet research on effects of climate change have tended to focus either on specific components or on general social and economic resilience. By integrating scientific advances in prediction of specific climate risks, we will be better able to identify strategies that buffer risks to one component by utilising contrasting risk profiles in others. Moreover, we seek to tap into decision support systems for climate-smart agriculture that have arisen from underpinning GCRF projects but are directed at specific components, to build shared platforms for communication and capacity building around climate risks for strategic and real-time applications.