Abstract
Today, Global Climate Change (GCC) and responses to it are altering the ways food is produced, processed, and consumed. A major threat to many people’s ability to access food, particularly in developing countries, has been the agriculture sector’s recent history of struggles and challenges brought about by a changing climate. Therefore, finding practical and cutting-edge answers to the problems of climate variability and sustainability in agriculture is essential. The United Nations 2030 agenda places a greater emphasis on the creation and effective application of models, policies, technology innovations, and strategies that call for the full participation of all parties, including local and indigenous people and their experiences, traditions, and cultural practices. However, despite providing clear examples of sustainable lifestyles within their ecological environment, the voices, knowledge, and concerns of both indigenous and local people have remained underrepresented in the climate change and sustainability discourse. This paper thus, advances the climate adaptation, resilience-building, and sustainability (CARS) model in agriculture in developing countries. The CARS model is a model meant for policymakers and hinges on the integration of scientific, indigenous, and local knowledge in the climate change adaptation discourse. The model supports the notion that an understanding of how policies may affect local and indigenous people and their resilience to GCC is critical to opening up an environment that supports community-based efforts to adapt to climate change by giving them options and engaging them in finding innovative, sustainable, and effective ways to adapt to a continuously changing and unpredictable climate.
Presenters
Stephen Chitengi SakapajiPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University - Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido, Japan
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Climate Change, Adaptation, Resilience-Building, Sustainability, Agriculture, Developing Countries
