Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia

Authors

• Asif Ishtiaque, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, USA
• Timothy J. Krupnik, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Vijesh Krishna, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Hyderabad, India
• Md. Nasir Uddin, Department of Agricultural Extension Education, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh
• Jeetendral Prakash Aryal, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Amit Kumar Srivastava, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)—South Asia Regional Centre (ISARC), Varanasi, India
• Shalander Kumar, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, India
• Muhammad Faisal Shahzad, Pakhtunkhwa Economic Policy Research Institute (PEPRI), Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
• Rajan Bhatt, Punjab Agricultural University-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Amritsar, India
• Maaz Gardezi, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
• Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati), Yerpedu, India
• Shahnaz Begum Nazu, Khalilganj School & College, Kurigram, Bangladesh
• Rajiv Ghimire, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• Asif Reza Anik, Department of Agricultural Economics, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University (BSMRAU), Gazipur, Bangladesh
• Tek B. Sapkota, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Texcoco, Mexico
• Madhusudan Ghosh, Department of Economics & Politics, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India
• Roshan Subedi, Department of Life Sciences, Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal
• Asif Sardar, National Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (NCIB), PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
• K. M. Zasim Uddin, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Arun Khatri-Chhetri, Department of Hunger and Livelihoods, Save the Children, Washington DC, USA
• Md. Shahinoor Rahman, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, USA
• Balwinder-Singh, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western AustraliaFollow
• Meha Jain, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-17-2024

Journal Title

Nature Climate Change

ISSN

ISSN 1758-678X eISSN 1758-6798

Keywords

Climate change, Climate-change adaptation, Climate-change mitigation, Climate-change policy, Sustainability, Climate-smart agriculture (CSA), South Asia, Food security, Barriers

Disciplines

Agribusiness | Agricultural Economics | Agricultural Education | Agricultural Science | Agronomy and Crop Sciences | Animal Sciences | Climate | Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment | Environmental Monitoring | Food Security | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods | Operations and Supply Chain Management | Sustainability | Water Resource Management

Abstract

Despite the promise of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) to improve food security in South Asia, most CSA practices and technologies have not been widely adopted. We identify the key barriers to CSA adoption in South Asia and suggest strategies to overcome them to increase CSA adoption at scale.

Recommended Citation

Ishtiaque, A., Krupnik, T.J., Krishna, V. et al. Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia. Nat. Clim. Chang. 14, 111–113 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01905-z