Research project SIFS-CLIM, India
Sustainable Integrated Farming Systems for Mitigation and Adaptation of Climate Change with Smallholder Farm(er)s in India
Over the past ten years, Welthungerhilfe (WHH) and its partners have developed and implemented the systemic approach “Sustainable Integrated Farming Systems (SIFS)”. The approach moves away from the performance of individual plants and towards increased system productivity and nutrient use efficiency, whereby arable farming, horticulture, agroforestry, livestock farming and aquaculture are interactively integrated. Natural cycles are mimicked by using waste from one subsystem as input for other subsystems, thereby increasing the overall synergy of the system. The project is based on the hypothesis that the SIFS approach is better at mitigating and adapting to climate change than conventional high external input intensive farming systems, thus providing a pathway to climate mitigation and resilience while contributing to several United Nations SDGs.
The SIFS-CLIM project aims to answer two research questions.
1: What determines the adaptation and mitigation potentials of SIFS multi-component farms along the four dimensions of resource use, agricultural productivity, landscape diversity and nutrient-rich food production?
2: What are the opportunities to adapt and improve the SIFS approach in terms of crop and breed selection and combination, farm management and ecosystem processes on the farm and in the landscape to achieve better performance in the four dimensions of resource utilization, agricultural productivity, landscape diversity and nutrient-rich food production?
2 Sub-projects
The SILFS-CLIM project is divided into 2 sub-projects, each with a different focus.
Further information on the individual sub-projects can be found here:
Executing institution
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Deutschland
Project Partners
- Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V.
- University of Calcutta
- Vaagdhara
- Abhivyakti Foundation
- Development Research Communication and Services Centre
Address
Forschungsprojekt SIFS-CLIM
University of Calcutta
Ballygunge Circular Road 35
700019 Kalkutta
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