Climate-Smart Agriculture: Adaptive Strategies for Enhancing Resilience to Climate Variability | Chapter 5 | Current Research Progress in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 10

Climate variability significantly impacts agriculture by disrupting traditional practices such as cropping, livestock rearing and fish farming. Subsistence farmers in impoverished regions, who heavily rely on natural resources, are of particular concern as they are especially vulnerable to intensified climate extremes, including droughts, floods and heatwaves. This review aims to comprehensively analyze the variability of climate in agriculture and the adaptive behaviour of farmers in response to climate change, synthesizing existing knowledge and examining measures for mitigating climate fluctuations. To achieve this, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted using the Scopus database, covering the past ten years. A total of 177 articles were identified through a methodological application of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) framework. Vosviewer software was used to visualise and analyse the bibliometric data. This study hypothesizes that adaptive strategies, such as climate-smart agriculture and early warning systems, significantly reduce farmers’ vulnerability to climate change. Key findings indicate that practices like conservation tillage, agroforestry and other climate-resilient approaches enhance agricultural sustainability and resilience. The results highlight the urgent need for further investigation and policy incentives to encourage adaptive behaviour and provide food security in the presence of climatic variability. The use of technology and resource optimization in recent agricultural adaptation strategies in developed countries is also highlighted. Thus, the conclusion of these findings encourages the widespread uptake of climate-smart practices coupled with early warning mechanisms to reduce climatic risks effectively. Further investigation into the extension services related to early warning systems, climate modelling and remote sensing is needed to improve awareness of climatic variability.

 

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A. Malaisamy
Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural College & Research Institute, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India.

 

S. Rithika
Department of Agricultural Economics, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

 

M. Raswanthkrishna
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (AI), Amrita University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Assessing the Characterization of Climate Variability: Case of Watershed Medjerda (North East of Algeria)| Chapter 3 | Modern Advances in Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences Vol. 1

 The global community has been pushed by several recent large-scale climate events to take an interest in climate change and its effects on water supplies. Among them, we can cite the droughts that have affected the Maghreb countries , particularly since the 1970s in Algeria. This study takes advantage of some statistical methods to interpret the spatiotemporal variability of precipitation for a period of 19 to 38 years at 16 rainfall stations located in the Medjerda (North East of Algeria) watershed. In the span of 1980 and 1990, there was an observed break when evaluating such sequence. Accordingly , the results of the mapping of the interannual rainfall indices calculated per decade over the period 1971-2007 show that the 80th and 90th decades appear to be a deficit across the basin. For the period (2001-2007), a trend towards a return of precipitation is thus noted. On the monthly scale, after years of failure for the winter months and spring, precipitation increased dramatically, Along with the The March Exception. An extraordinary concentration of rainfall in the month of August is observed. At the The study of daily rainfall fractions on a daily basis indicates a pattern in the rise in the average After years of failure, the average annual rainfall is greater than 20 mm. The Medjerda basin is also considered to have a Reduced precipitation and temperature rise over a period from (1913-1938) to (1969-1969) It's 2007).

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Dr. Wacila Khoualdia
Laboratoire de Gestion, Maintenance et Réhabilitation des Equipements et des Infrastructures Urbaines Université Mohamed

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