Overcoming barriers to climate-smart agriculture in South Asia

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.

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01905-z