Impact of climate change on agriculture and food crops: Options for climate smart agriculture and local adaptation in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

IRGSC working paper no 8:

This paper highlights the impact of climate change on agriculture. It argues that the erratic climate of the region has strongly impacted the local food system especially the seed availability and therefore food security in general. This paper identifies some of the innovation in water use efficiency, water management at crop levels, and proposes some agriculture interventions in order to achieve a sustainable local seed systems, participatory breeding, livestock adaptation measures and improvement of existing agroforestry as well as knowledge management.