Enduring Farms: Climate Change, Smallholders and Traditional Farming Communities
Written by Miguel A. Altieri and Parviz Koohafkan, this document explores the ways in which resource-conservation farming results in resilient agroecosystems in the face of climate change while contributing to food security at local, regional and national levels.
The point about the crucial importance of agrobiodiversity and traditional farming systems to cope with climate change is well made.
The chapters of the book you will find are:
- Agriculture, climate change and the rural poor
- Impacts of climate change on smallholders/traditional family farming communities
- Strengths and weaknesses of traditional farming systems in an era of climate change
- Extent of traditional and family farming systems
- Coping mechanisms and strategies to enhance resiliency to climatic variability
- Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
- Capturing water in dryland environments
- Farmers’ innovation and local approaches in climatically marginal environments
Read or download Enduring Farms
A wealth of resources on agroecology can be found here: http://www.agroeco.org/
