Assessment of the Climate-Smart Agriculture Interventions towards the Avenues of Sustainable Production–Consumption

Mohamed Rafik Noor Mohamed Qureshi, Ali Saeed Almuflih, Janpriy Sharma, Mohit Tyagi, Shubhendu Singh and Naif Almakayeel
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Mohamed Rafik Noor Mohamed Qureshi: Industrial Engineering Department, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia
Ali Saeed Almuflih: Industrial Engineering Department, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia
Janpriy Sharma: Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144027, India
Mohit Tyagi: Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144027, India
Shubhendu Singh: Department of Industrial and Production Engineering, Dr. B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar 144027, India
Naif Almakayeel: Industrial Engineering Department, King Khalid University, Abha 62529, Saudi Arabia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 14, 1-24

Abstract: In the current scenario, climatic adversities and a growing population are adding woes to the concerns of food safety and security. Furthermore, with the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 by the United Nations (UN), focusing on sustainable production–consumption, climatic vulnerabilities need to be addressed. Hence, in order to map the sustainable production–consumption avenues, agricultural practices need to be investigated for practices like Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA). A need has arisen to align the existing agricultural practices in the developing nation towards the avenues of CSA, in order to counter the abrupt climatic changes. Addressing the same, a relation hierarchical model is developed which clusters the various governing criteria and their allied attributes dedicated towards the adoption of CSA practices. Furthermore, the developed model is contemplated for securing the primacies of promising practices for the enactment of CSA using the duo of the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) and Fuzzy AHP (FAHP). The outcomes result in the substantial sequencing of the key attributes acting as a roadmap toward the CSA. This emphasizes the adoption of knowledge-based smart practices, which leaps from the current agricultural practices toward the CSA. Furthermore, by intensifying the utilization of the improved and resilient seed varieties and implying the fundamentals of agroforestry, we secure primacy to counter the adversities of the climate.

Keywords: climate change; climate smart agriculture; sustainability; AHP; FAHP; developing economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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