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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Agricultural Extension and Adaptation Under the “New Normal” of Climate Change

Authors : Brent M. Simpson, Gaye Burpee

Published in: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Adapting to climate change is the most serious challenge facing our species. The scale is global, trajectory of onset uncertain and impacts potentially catastrophic (IPCC 2013). As further evidence emerges and as the scramble to adapt to the ‘new normal’ intensifies, persistent problems, past failures and new challenges have the potential to converge in a perfect storm. In response, extension and advisory service (EAS) providers have a key role to play as a critical link between farming populations and sources of new information and tools, so that practices can be appropriately adapted. This chapter outlines the challenge of adapting to climate change, identifies past and present points of EAS engagement, and proposes future responses, with a focus on the constraints and conditions of smallholder farmers in the tropics, and the natural resource base upon which agriculture depends.

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Metadata
Title
Agricultural Extension and Adaptation Under the “New Normal” of Climate Change
Authors
Brent M. Simpson
Gaye Burpee
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-38669-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-38670-1

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38670-1_121