Abstract

Climate change is causing variety of environmental problems creating agricultural situations from bad to worst. A review of results of human centered extension studies revealed and confirmed the peoples’ choice and attitude to adopt least strenuous path accompanying practices, which was perceived as a bio factor driving the adaptations. Rivers adaptations of natural courses of least resistance path was taken as a conforming substantiation that all policies and technologies for coping with climate change should be based on eliminating or reducing intensity of strains in agriculture. This strategy of least strenuous path was taken in devising practices which were easily adoptable and highly effective in reducing the severity of adverse impacts of climate change. Authors’ past researches were selected for bringing integrated solution for creating adaptations of all technologies in coping with climate change, which reached to conclusion that mere three practices viz land formation of Raised Broad Bed and Furrow (RBBF), supplementation of one fourth of the Recommended Dose of N Fertilizers (RDF) and eco-zero weeding, a panacea shrine for agriculture will be sufficient for enhancing more than double yields in global agriculture, which should be quickly adopted as a policy tool. Further, a new change brought was reformation of forest land use, least affected by climate change, the most prominent land use in Africa into Forestry– Horticulture, for production of goods and services and wellness of people. Thus, this research brought new intellectual property for coping with the insurmountable global problem of climate change.

Keywords: Crop productivity; Diffusion of technology; Food security; Multivariate utility models; Small holder farming; Soil conservation

Abbreviations: RBBF: Raised Broad Bed and Furrow; RDF: Recommended Dose of N Fertilizers; GIR: Geographical Information Registry; GHGs: Green House Gases