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Indonesia Children and Climate Smart Agriculture

by | 06-12-2014 11:10



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Mostly Indonesia farmers have been threatened significantly to reducing crop yields due to climate change. It ensues through unpredictable harvesting times and crop yield failures, finally affecting national food sovereignty. Furthermore, flooding, prolonged droughts and pest and diseases attacks as negative influences of climate change are main threats, contributing crop yield failures. Undue technologies of agriculture also exacerbate agriculture sector because of accelerating within releasing GHGs such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. A way to mitigate the above problems is by educating Indonesia farmers about Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) as well as implementing the initiative. This case must be introduced as ?a conspicuous panacea? to help improving and maintaining national food security.

The education of Climate Smart Agriculture is not only restricted by ages, it can be promoted to children as a part of early childhood education. Albeit CSA is a novel agricultural initiative, some ecological groups and institutions have started to get together introducing CSA to children. For instance, the activities and experiential education of the Farmer Field School (FFS) – a group-based learning process under design of UN FAO - are not only addressed for Indonesian farmers, but also these sometimes allow children particularly students to understand agriculture. Other ancillary, an environmental NGO in Indonesia comprising of young agriculturist have collaborated with certain schools to insert CSA at school curriculum. The curriculum includes agroecosystem education, agroforestry, vertical farming, producing organic fertilizer, and so forth. By involving children to CSA activities, three pillars of CSA -increasing productivity, enhancing resiliency, and reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions- will be positively attainable. In other hand, children will be not marginalized to ascertaining agriculture.