Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways: Climate Change and Agriculture

This brief offers a review of recent literature on the implications of climate change for agricultural commercialisation and APRA’s research

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Published: 20 September 2018

• Country: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
• Document Type: Briefing
• Theme: Agriculture
• Authors: Newsham, A, Kohnstamm, S, Otto Naess, L, Atela, J

Abstract

Given the highly climate-sensitive character of agricultural production, climate change has obvious and important ramifications for agricultural commercialisation, which in turn has a bearing on poverty, gender empowerment, and food and nutrition security. The nature and extent of climate change implications for agricultural commercialisation will depend on: the magnitude of the climate impacts that farmers have to deal with; and, the extent to which sustainable intensification processes can be pursued in ways which strengthen, rather than weaken, adaptive capacity and resilience in the face of climate change. This brief provides a summary of a longer working paper, which offers a review of recent literature on the implications of climate change for agricultural commercialisation and APRA’s research in this area.

This work is part of the APRA (Agricultural Policy Research Policy in Africa) Programme

Citation

Newsham, A., Kohnstamm, S., Otto Naess, L. and Atela, J. (2018) Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways: Climate Change and Agriculture APRA Brief 6, Future Agricultures Consortium

Link

APRA Brief 6: Agricultural Commercialisation Pathways: Climate Change and Agriculture

Published 20 September 2018