Better before worse trajectories in food systems? An investigation of synergies and trade-offs through climate-smart agriculture and system dynamics

Jagustović, R and Papachristos, G and Zougmoré, R B and Kotir, J H and Kessler, A and Ouédraogo, M and Ritsema, C J and Dittmer, K M (2021) Better before worse trajectories in food systems? An investigation of synergies and trade-offs through climate-smart agriculture and system dynamics. Agricultural Systems (TSI), 190 (103131). pp. 1-15. ISSN 0308-521X

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Abstract

Food systems face multiple challenges simultaneously: provision to a growing population, adaptation to more extreme and frequent climate change risks, and reduction of their considerable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Food system interventions and policies give rise to synergies and trade-offs that emerge over time due to the dynamic nature and interconnections of system elements. Analysis of an entire food system is necessary to identify synergies that bring simultaneous benefits and mitigate trade-offs, both short- and long-term. OBJECTIVE: Our study aims to inform the sustainable transformation of food systems by identifying short- and long-term synergies and trade-offs in the climate-smart village (CSV) Lawra-Jirapa in northern Ghana under the current practices, technologies, policies, and trends of population growth, extreme events, and climate change impacts.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Research Program : West & Central Africa
CRP:	CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Climate change, Food security, Smallholder agriculture, Systems thinking, System dynamics modelling, West Africa
Subjects:	Others > Smallholder Agriculture Others > Climate Change Others > Food Security Others > West Africa
Depositing User:	Mr Arun S
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2021 13:16
Last Modified:	03 Aug 2021 13:16
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/11860
Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103131
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	UNSPECIFIED
Acknowledgement:	This work was implemented as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which is carried out with support from the CGIAR Fund Donors and through several bilateral funding agreements (the CGIAR Fund Council, Australia-ACIAR, European Union, International Fund for Agricultural Development-IFAD, Ireland, New Zealand, Netherlands, Switzerland, USAID, UK, and Thailand). For details, please visit https://ccafs.cgiar. org/donors. We thank women and men farmers in Doggoh-Jirapa and CCAFS scientists for participating in the systems thinking sessions and the staff of the CSIR-SARI and of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Department in Jirapa for providing logistical on-site support and translation services during the field data collection.
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