Arid landsArid lands due to their geographical location on the globe are highly vulnerable to climate changeClimate change impact. The climate change might worsen existing national and regional disparities and reduce crop yield especially in arid lands located at lower latitudes where many developing countriesDeveloping countries are situated. Therefore, agricultural practices supporting climate change mitigationMitigation and facilitate adaptationAdaptation to a changing climate are critical forArid arid land agricultureAgriculture to ensure food securityFood security. Best agricultural practices must save water, improve soil health, reduce greenhouse gas emission to achieve synergies between mitigation and adaptation in agriculture. The arid lands have low aridityAridity index (precipitation/potential evapotranspiration) classifying the drylandsDrylands into four subtypes (hyperarid, arid, semi-arid and sub-humid). In the arid regionsArid regions there is limited rainfall to meet the requirement of different crops for food securityFood security. The deficit in rainfall is offset by using supplemental water resources which may be marginalMarginal in quality and affecting the crop productionCrop production. To have maximum crop productionCrop production fromArid arid lands, the soil properties are to be fully explored to mitigate soil effects on crop production and to formulate adaptation strategies to cope up the adverse effects both from the climate changeClimate change and soil effects. The most important component ofArid arid lands is to establish the land suitability classes for agriculture using established systems. The highly suitable soils for agricultureAgriculture are to be included into the rationale land use policies where arable landsArable land are to be designated for crop production and no other use. MarginalMarginal quality land which will never be used for agriculture to be recommended for other uses like housing projects to cope the pressure of growing populationPopulation associated urbanization. It has been observed that land use change has increased greenhouse gases emission, and the farm sizes in Asia and Africa are decreasing. Globally there are 575 million farms of various sizes, distributed into different regions, and 500 million farms are less than 2-hectare size. In this chapter efforts have been made to propose multi-pronged mitigationMitigation-adaptationAdaptation synergySynergy to address climate change issues holistically to increase farm productivity for food securityFood security.

Mitigation and Adaptation Synergy in Arid Lands Agriculture for Food Security

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2026年

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Majda Khalil Suleiman

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Arid landsArid lands due to their geographical location on the globe are highly vulnerable to climate changeClimate change impact. The climate change might worsen existing national and regional disparities and reduce crop yield especially in arid lands located at lower latitudes where many developing countriesDeveloping countries are situated. Therefore, agricultural practices supporting climate change mitigationMitigation and facilitate adaptationAdaptation to a changing climate are critical forArid arid land agricultureAgriculture to ensure food securityFood security. Best agricultural practices must save water, improve soil health, reduce greenhouse gas emission to achieve synergies between mitigation and adaptation in agriculture. The arid lands have low aridityAridity index (precipitation/potential evapotranspiration) classifying the drylandsDrylands into four subtypes (hyperarid, arid, semi-arid and sub-humid). In the arid regionsArid regions there is limited rainfall to meet the requirement of different crops for food securityFood security. The deficit in rainfall is offset by using supplemental water resources which may be marginalMarginal in quality and affecting the crop productionCrop production. To have maximum crop productionCrop production fromArid arid lands, the soil properties are to be fully explored to mitigate soil effects on crop production and to formulate adaptation strategies to cope up the adverse effects both from the climate changeClimate change and soil effects. The most important component ofArid arid lands is to establish the land suitability classes for agriculture using established systems. The highly suitable soils for agricultureAgriculture are to be included into the rationale land use policies where arable landsArable land are to be designated for crop production and no other use. MarginalMarginal quality land which will never be used for agriculture to be recommended for other uses like housing projects to cope the pressure of growing populationPopulation associated urbanization. It has been observed that land use change has increased greenhouse gases emission, and the farm sizes in Asia and Africa are decreasing. Globally there are 575 million farms of various sizes, distributed into different regions, and 500 million farms are less than 2-hectare size. In this chapter efforts have been made to propose multi-pronged mitigationMitigation-adaptationAdaptation synergySynergy to address climate change issues holistically to increase farm productivity for food securityFood security.