The potential of organic agriculture for contributing to climate change adaptation

Organic Agriculture for Sustainable Livelihoods

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 101-125

  Muller, Adrian ^a   Osman Elasha, Balgis ^b   Andreasen, Lise ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b African Development Bank   (Tunisia)

^c Aarhus University   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921308503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203124680     Document Type: Chapter

References (48)

1. Adger, N., Arnell, N. and Tompkins, E. (2005) ‘Successful adaptation to climate change across scales’, Global Environmental Change, 15, pp. 77–86
2. Adger, W.N., Agrawala, S., Mirza, M.M.Q., Conde, C., O’Brien, K., Pulhin, J. et al. (2007) ‘Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity’, in M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson (eds), Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 717–743
3. Altieri, M. and Nicholls, C. (2006) Agroecology and the Search for a Truly Sustainable Agriculture, Berkeley, University of California
4. Altieri, M., Ponti. L. and Nicholls, C. (2005) ‘Enhanced pest management through soil health: toward a belowground habitat management strategy’, Biodynamics (Summer), pp. 33–40
5. Bio Suisse (2011) ‘Bio Suisse Standards for the production, processing and marketing of produce from organic farming’, edition of 1 January, http://www.bio-suisse.ch/media/en/pdf2011/rl_2011_e.pdf
6. Boomiraj, K., Wani, S., Garg, K., Aggarwal, P. and Palanisami, K. (2010) ‘Climate change adaptation strategies for agro-ecosystems - a review’, Journal of Agrometeorology, 12, 2, pp. 145–160
7. Borron, S. (2006) ‘Building resilience for an unpredictable future: how organic agriculture can help farmers adapt to climate change’, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
8. Burton, I. and Lim, B. (2005) ‘Achieving adequate adaptation in agriculture’, Climatic Change, 70, pp. 191–200
9. Campbell, A., Kapos, V., Scharlemann, J.P.W., Bubb, P., Chenery, A., Coad, L., et al. (2009) ‘Review of the literature on the links between biodiversity and climate change: impacts, adaptation and mitigation’, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Technical Series No. 42
10. Carlsson, C. and Berkes, F. (2005) ‘Co-management: concepts and methodological implications’, Journal of Environmental Management, 75: pp. 65–76
11. Cumming, G., Cumming, D. and Redman, C. (2006) ‘Scale mismatch in social-ecological systems: causes, consequences, and solutions’, Ecology and Society, 1, 1, article 14
12. Davidson, E. and Janssens, I. (2006) ‘Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change’, Nature, 440, pp. 165–173
13. Easterling, W.E., Aggarwal, P.K., Batima, P., Brander, K.M., Erda, L., Howden, S.M., et al. (2007) ‘Food, fibre and forest products’, in M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson (eds), Climate Change 2007: Impacts,Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 273–313
14. EC (2007) ‘Council Regulation No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91’, Official Journal of the European Union, L 189/1, pp. 1–23
15. Eyhorn, F. (2007) ‘Organic farming for sustainable livelihoods in developing countries: cthe case of cotton in India’, vdf-Hochschulverlag, Zürich, http//www.zb.unibe.ch/download/eldiss/06eyhorn_f.pdf
16. FAO (2011) ‘FAO-ADAPT: Framework programme on climate change and adaptation’, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO, www.fao.org/docrep/014/i2316e/i2316e00.pdf
17. Folke, C., Carpenter, S., Elmqvist, T., Gunderson, L., Holling, C. and Walker, B. (2002) ‘Resilience and sustainable development: building adaptive capacity in a world of transformations’, Ambio, 31, 5, pp. 437–440
18. Fuessel, H.M. (2007) ‘Adaptation planning for climate change: concepts, assessment approaches, and key lessons’, Sustainability Science, 2, pp. 265–275
19. Howden, S., Soussana, J.-F., Tubiello, F., Chhetri, N., Dunlop, M. and Meinke, H. (2007) ‘Adapting agriculture to climate change’, Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences of the United States of America, 104, 59, pp. 19691–19696
20. IFOAM (2005) ‘Social Justice’, IFOAM Basic Standards, Chapter 9, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Bonn, www.ifoam.org/about_ifoam/standards/norms.html
21. IPCC (2007) ‘Glossary’, in M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C.E. Hanson (eds), Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, Appendix
22. Mäder, P., Fließbach, A., Dubois, D., Gunst, L., Jossi, W., Widmer, F., et al. (2006) ‘The DOK experiment (Switzerland)’, in J. Raupp, C. Pekrun, M. Oltmanns and U. Köpke (eds), ISOFAR Scientific Series. University of Bonn, Germany
23. Meehl, G.A., Stocker, T.F., Collins, W.D., Friedlingstein, P., Gaye, A.T., Gregory, J.M., et al. (2007) ‘Global Climate Projections’, in S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, et al. (eds), Climate Change 2007: The PhysicalScience Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
24. Milestad, R. and Darnhofer, I. (2003) ‘Building farm resilience: the prospects and challenges of organic farming’, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 22, 3, pp. 81–97
25. Morgan, K. and Murdoch, J. (2000) ‘Organic vs. conventional agriculture: knowledge, power and innovation in the food chain’, Geoforum, 31, pp. 159–173
26. Moser, S. and Ekstrom, J. (2010) ‘A framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107, 51, pp. 22026–22031.
27. Muller, A. and Aubert, C. (2012) ‘The potential of organic agriculture to mitigate the impact of agriculture on global warming - a review’, in S. Penvern et al. (eds), OrganicFarming, Prototype for Sustainable Agri-cultures? Dordrecht, Springer
28. M ller, A., Jawtusch, J. and Gattinger, A. (2011) ‘Mitigating greenhouse gases in agriculture - a challenge and opportunity for agricultural policies’, Report commissioned by ‘Brot für die Welt’ (Germany), ‘Brot für alle’ (Switzerland), Stuttgart, DanChurchAid (Denmark) and Church of Sweden.
29. Nelson, D., Adger, N. and Brown, K. (2007) ‘Adaptation to environmental change: contributions of a resilience framework’, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 32, pp. 295–419
30. Niggli, U. (2009) ‘Organic agriculture: a productive means of low-carbon and high biodiversity food production’, Trade and Environment Review 2009/2010, UNCTAD, pp. 112–142
31. Niggli, U., Fließbach, A., Hepperly, P. and Scialabba, N. (2009) ‘Low greenhouse gas agriculture: mitigation and adaptation potential of sustainable farming systems’. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) April, Rev. 2, Rome, ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ai781e/ai781e00.pdf [16.02.2011]
32. Nyong, A., Adesina, F. and Osman Elasha, B. (2007) ‘The value of indigenous knowledge in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies in the African Sahel’, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 12, pp. 787–797
33. Olsson, P., Folke, C. and Berkes, F. (2004) ‘adaptive comanagement for building resilience in social-ecological systems’, Environmental Management, 34, 1, pp. 75–90
34. Osbahr, H., Twyman, C., Adger, N. and Thomas, D. (2010) ‘Evaluating successful livelihood adaptation to climate variability and change in Southern Africa’, Ecologyand Society, 15, 2, p. 27
35. Risbey, J., Kandlikar, M., Dowlatabadi, H. and Graetz, D. (1999) ‘Scale, context, and decision making in agricultural adaptation to climate variability and change’, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 4, pp. 137–165
36. Rosenzweig, C. and Tubiello, F. (2007) ‘Adaptation and mitigation strategies in agriculture: an analysis of potential synergies’, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies toGlobal Change, 12, pp. 855–873
37. Salinger, M., Sivakumar, M. and Motha, R. (2005) ‘Reducing vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to climate variability and change: workshop summary and recommendations’, Climatic Change, 70, 1–2, pp. 341–362
38. Scialabba, N. and Hattam, C. (eds) (2002) ‘Organic agriculture, environment and food security’, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome., www.fao.org/docrep/005/y4137e/ y4137e00.htm
39. Scialabba, N. and Müller-Lindenlauf, M. (2010) ‘Organic agriculture and climate change’, Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 25, 2, pp. 158–169
40. Smit, B. and Wandel, J. (2006) ‘Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability’, Global Environmental Change, 16, pp. 282–292
41. Smith, J., Wolfe, M., Woodward, L., Pearce, B. and Lampkin, N. (2011) ‘Organic farming and biodiversity’, A review of the literature. Aberystwyth, Wales
42. Smith, P. and Olesen, J.E. (2010) ‘Synergies between mitigation of, and adaptation to, climate change in agriculture’, Journal of Agricultural Science, 148, pp. 543–552
43. Stigter, C., Dawei, Z., Onyewotu, L. and Xurong, M. (2005) ‘Using traditional methods and indigenous technologies for coping with climate variability’, Climatic Change, 70, 1–2, pp. 255–271
44. Tengö, M. and, Belfrage, K. (2004) ‘Local management practices for dealing with change and uncertainty: a cross-scale comparison of cases in Sweden and Tanzania’, Ecologyand Society, 9, 3, www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss3/art4
45. Tschakert, P. and Dietrich, K.A. (2010) ‘Anticipatory learning for climate change adaptation and resilience’, Ecology and Society, 15, 2, p. 11
46. Walker, B., Holling, C.S., Carpenter, S.R. and Kinzig, A. (2004), ‘Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems’, Ecology and Society, 9, 2, p. 5
47. Walker, B.H., Gunderson, L.H., Kinzig, A.P., Folke, C., Carpenter, S.R. and Schultz, L. (2006) ‘A handful of heuristics and some propositions for understanding resilience in social-ecological systems’, Ecology and Society, 11, 1, p. 13
48. World Bank (2010) ‘Mainstreaming adaptation to climate change in agriculture and natural resources management projects’, World Bank http://climatechange.worldbank.org/climatechange/content/mainstreaming-adaptation-climate-changeagriculture-and-natural-resources-management-project