Set of initiatives in the agriculture to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a context of climate changing.
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Climate Smart Sustainable Agriculture: Integrated Steps Towards Resilient Farms
Luis Loures (Valoriza, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal), Paulo Ferreira (Valoriza, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal), Ana Loures (Valoriza, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portugal), and Vera Barradas (Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7391-4.ch004
Abstract
Careful management of agricultural ecosystems is considered a vital procedure to ensure both environmental health and the sustainability of this sector, particularly when, besides all the argumentative used by farmers, there are no globally accepted sustainable management solutions for agriculture. This scenario poses several challenges for the agricultural sector all over the world, especially on an increasing climate change situation, in which extreme weather phenomena tend to be gradually more severe, as is the case of floods and draughts. Still, considering that the last decades were marked by great developments in agricultural management systems as is the case of precision agriculture, hi-tech-agriculture, organic farming, conservation agriculture, sustainable agriculture, smart farming, among others, it is crucial to assess specific case studies, in which the application of predetermined sustainable farming principles and/or procedures contributed to increase their resilience to climate change on a sustainable manner.