Climate Change Forces Farmers To Adapt (PHOTOS)

From CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security:

Farmers and agriculture experts began COP17 pushing for negotiators to recognize the important role of agriculture in the climate change discussion, and specifically called for a Work Programme for agriculture under the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). While no such program was established, there were some victories for food and farming in Durban.

A recent press release by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) highlights some of the progress made during COP17, but also notes that the outcomes from Durban do not go far enough to tackle the major adaptation challenges faced by least developed countries.

While negotiators have been slow to incorporate agriculture into the climate change agenda, farmers across the globe cannot afford to ignore the effects of rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns to their livelihoods. The accompanying photo series highlights some of the challenges, and describes ways farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America have adapted to climate change.

The images and captions tell a story of enormous challenges, but also show what’s possible when farmers have access to innovative ideas and are able to share knowledge amongst themselves on approaches and tools to help them adapt to climate change.

Images and captions courtesy of Neil Palmer, CIAT.

Comments

[franluchan]

07:35 PM on 12/28/2011

One of the more popular climate scams employed by the EPA, Katherine Hayhoe and many others – is to show photographs of glaciers from the 1940s (or later) next to recent photos. The implication being that these glaciers started to retreat sometime recently, and that it is due to global warming.



http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/indicators/

This is blatant fraud. These glaciers have been retreating for hundreds of years, and it has nothing to do with CO2. The glacier in the EPA photograph above retreated eight feet per day between 1794 and 1879.


As you enter Glacier Bay in Southeast Alaska you will cruise along shorelines completely covered by ice just 200 years ago.

Explorer Captain George Vancouver found Icy Strait choked with ice in 1794, and Glacier Bay was barely an indented glacier. That glacier was more than 4000 ft. thick, up to 20 miles or more wide, and extended more than 100 miles to the St.Elias Range of mountains.

By 1879 naturist John Muir​ found that the ice had retreated 48 miles up the bay. By 1916 the Grand Pacific Glacier headed Tarr inlet 65 miles from Glacier Bay’s mouth.

http://www.glacierbay.org/glaciers.html

[jimboy71]

08:25 PM on 12/28/2011

So what is causing the melting Frank?

[franluchan]

10:40 PM on 12/28/2011

Hmmm, same thing that caused the melting in 1879.

Sure wasn't any of those 1879 Pre-Model T SUVs.....

[franluchan]

03:58 PM on 12/30/2011

"Melting in the arctic is 'unprecedented' in the last 100,000 years...."

Sorry.

Not a stich of scientific evidence to prove your alarmist claim.

[This American]

10:44 AM on 12/22/2011

If the warming continues, farmers will have to adapt by either moving or changing crops. At the current rate of warming, farmers in the northern hemisphere would have to move north about 2500 feet per year to if they wanted to maintain a constant temperature. More likely they would plant a mix of crops in year X+1, that their neighbor 2500 feet north of them planted in year X.

Farmers routinely change crop mixes in response to market conditions at rates many thousands of times faster than this. This is a non-problem and not one cent of tax money should be spent "worrying"about it.

[jimboy71]

08:25 PM on 12/28/2011

You may want to study this assertion a little bit more.

[judycross4]

08:08 PM on 12/20/2011

Farmers can adjust to climate cycles as they have done throughout the centuries. What they can't adjust to is being thrown off their land so Big Green can sell "carbon credits" as has happened in Kenya, Uganda and Honduras. Land is stolen, peoples home burnt down and their children burnt to death...all in the name of "climate change:. For shame!

[Katmandu01]

09:26 AM on 12/22/2011

"...being thrown off their land so Big Green can sell "carbon credits"..."
When and where has that happened? Cite your source. In other words prove it. By the way, do these farmers look like they're able to "adjust"?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4802458.stm
How about these farmers?
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2017027_2187379,00.html
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/09/asim-rafiqui/?pid=245
Or these?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/climate-change-and-the-end-of-australia-20111003
Or on this side of the pond, these?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030394/Hurricane-Irene-2011-East-Coast-threat-flooding-Texas-suffers-drought.html
Is this what you meant when you said, "Farmers can adjust to climate cycles as they have done throughout the centuries" because it doesn't seem that they're adjusting very well?

[Roger Davies]

09:05 PM on 12/22/2011

1. It's not a cycle, its one-way this time.

2. Adjustment throughout the centuries has been by mass starvation, even though the population was tiny compared with today.

3. If there is truth in the carbon credits claim, then this is obviously unnaccepable, and nothing to do with healthy carbon policies.

[eaarth2]

06:26 PM on 12/26/2011

When I hear 'Its just a Cycle'- I ask one simple question; What caused those cycles.

[manfrommars]

03:47 PM on 12/19/2011

Exxon to World poor . . ."You must sacrifice for me. I am important. You are not. You are little nobodys. . we are big important people with large houses. We play golf . Have a nice day"

[baxtron]

02:23 PM on 12/19/2011

why did these people believe Al Gore? he will obviously profit from this!

[manfrommars]

03:47 PM on 12/19/2011

because he was right?

[baxtron]

05:10 PM on 12/19/2011

it was a bad joke. sorry.

[Sunwyn Ravenwood]

06:43 PM on 12/19/2011

Why are you posting this here?

[jimboy71]

08:50 PM on 12/28/2011

Flagged.

[hanspij]

01:58 AM on 12/19/2011

Yes. more $$$ is great. But why? Is it maybe bc the $$ is worth not so much?

[HP-reader]

12:57 AM on 12/19/2011

RE: 'the cold fusion'
Is this the old cold fusion scam or is it a new one?

RE: 'Farmers to adapt'
Not entirely bad idea is to start growing Cannabis for canvases in art (this plant is a real monster in terms of CO2), but there is one tiny little problem: how to keep the field away from 'the other dealers'.

[dobermanmacleod]

12:15 AM on 12/19/2011

The following will be a big boon to farmers and allow us to cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically at the same time. Also, the .tTotal replacement of fossil fuels for everything but synthetic organic chemistry:

. There is a new clean energy technology that is 1/10th the cost of coal. Don’t believe me? Watch this video by a Nobel prize winner in physics: http://pesn.com/2011/06/23/9501856_Nobel_laureate_touts_E-Cat_cold_fusion/

Still don’t believe me? It convinced the Swedish Skeptics Society: http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3144827.ece
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2011/05/swedish-skeptics-confirm-nuclear-process-in-tiny-4-7-kw-reactor

LENR using nickel. Incredibly: Ni+H+K2CO3(heated under pressure)=Cu+lots of heat. This phenomenon (LENR) has been confirmed in hundreds of published scientific papers: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf

According to Forbes, electricity will be "too cheap to meter" if Rossi's Oct 28 demonstration succeeds: http://www.forbes.com/sites/markgibbs/2011/10/17/hello-cheap-energy-hello-brave-new-world/

Here's the latest, according to MSNBC it passed the test: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45153076/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TrNo9rJqwe4

By the way, here is a current survey of all the companies that are bringing LENR to commercialization: http://www.cleantechblog.com/2011/08/the-new-breed-of-energy-catalyzers-ready-for-commercialization.html

[Sunwyn Ravenwood]

06:44 PM on 12/19/2011

Why is this here?