Prioritizing climate‐smart agriculture

An organizational and temporal review

Bibliographic Data

ID12929436
AuthorsMaaz Gardezi (0000-0003-0915-2652, Virginia Tech), Semhar Michael (0000-0002-9501-9550, South Dakota State University), Ryan Stock (0000-0002-6218-3725, Northern Michigan University), Sumit Vij (0000-0001-5252-797X, Wageningen University & Research, corresponding author), Ayorinde Ogunyiola (0000-0002-1371-9183, Purdue University West Lafayette), Asif Ishtiaque (0000-0002-2196-9764, University of Michigan)
Year2021
Volume13
Issue2
Publication date2021-12-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/wcc.755
OpenAlexW4200610724
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited72

Extant systematic literature reviews on the topic of climate smart agriculture (CSA) have mainly focused on two issues: reviewing framing of the CSA discourse in the academic and policy literature; and policy initiatives in the Global South that enhance the adoption of climate‐smart agricultural practices. Yet, there is little systematic investigation into how international organizations can help smallholder farmers manage agricultural systems to respond to climate change. Analyzing these organization's priorities and highlighting their knowledge gaps are crucial for designing future pathways of CSA. We intend to use this article to identify overarching CSA themes that can guide large international organizations to focus their CSA agenda in the hope of achieving goals associated with food security and sustainable intensification. We specifically ask the following question: How have the key CSA topics and themes emerged in the gray literature of international organizations between 2010 and 2020? We adopted a topic modeling approach to identify how six international organizations engaged with several topics related to CSA. Following the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) approach, we identified eight topics in the documents, representing four overarching themes: gender research, weather and climate, CSA management and food security. We found that there is insufficient discussion on the issues relating to governance measures and gender mainstreaming, with a larger focus on techno‐managerial measures of CSA. We conclude that research and training related to CSA must offer opportunities for marginalized and disproportionately vulnerable populations to participate and raise their voices and share innovative ideas at different levels of governance. This article is categorized under: Climate and Development > Social Justice and the Politics of Development Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation

Agriculture · Climate change · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental resource management · Extant taxon · Food security · Framing (construction · Geography · Grey literature · Latent Dirichlet allocation · Mainstreaming · Management · Political science · Public relations · Topic model · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Ecology

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