Prioritizing farm management interventions to improve climate change adaptation and mitigation outcomes-a case study for banana plantations.

ABSTRACT: Intervening into agricultural systems necessarily includes risks, uncertainties, and ultimately unknown outcomes. Decision analysis embraces uncertainty through an interdisciplinary approach that involves relevant stakeholders in evaluating complex decisions. We applied decision analysis approaches to prioritize 21 farm management interventions, which could be considered in certification schemes for banana production. We estimated their contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as ecological outcomes. We used a general model that estimated the impacts of each intervention on adaptation (benefits minus costs), mitigation (global warming potential), ecological parameters (e.g., biodiversity and water and soil quality), and farming aspects (e.g., yield, implementation c

SUBMITTER: Fernandez E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9362632 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature