{"title":"Integration of climate change adaptation into agricultural policies in Nepal: A diagnostic assessment","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2024.101085","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Successful implementation of climate change adaptation (CCA) actions in the agriculture sector requires comprehensive policies that have specifically focused aims and targets. Integration of CCA into agricultural policy can provide an enabling environment for planning and implementing CCA actions in a coordinated way. This work undertook an assessment of the integration of CCA into agricultural policies in Nepal. In total, 23 policies, plans, strategies, and frameworks published over more than two decades were assessed. Content analysis and knowledge mining were conducted based on five proxy criteria: focus, adaptation strategies, institutional setup, financial management, and monitoring and evaluation. The results indicate that the focus of the policies in terms of agricultural adaptation to climate change vary from protection of the environment to climate-smart agriculture. Agroforestry was found to be a highly prioritized CCA action in the documents. Most of the policy documents (16) make provisions for three tiers of institutional setup, while only 10 specifically allocate their required budgets with clear identification of their sources and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms at the national and subnational levels. The results also show that overlapping roles and responsibilities across ministries, the prioritization of adaptation action without quantified outcomes and a low priority being given to climate action—particularly at subnational levels—are major constraints on the implementation of these policies. In light of this, programs, activities, institutions and legal provisions are essential components in achieving the goals and objectives of any policy. So, each policy should have implementable programs and activities, institutional provisions with clearly defined responsibilities and legal provisions to overcome the obstacles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.7000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Environmental Development","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211464524001234","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Successful implementation of climate change adaptation (CCA) actions in the agriculture sector requires comprehensive policies that have specifically focused aims and targets. Integration of CCA into agricultural policy can provide an enabling environment for planning and implementing CCA actions in a coordinated way. This work undertook an assessment of the integration of CCA into agricultural policies in Nepal. In total, 23 policies, plans, strategies, and frameworks published over more than two decades were assessed. Content analysis and knowledge mining were conducted based on five proxy criteria: focus, adaptation strategies, institutional setup, financial management, and monitoring and evaluation. The results indicate that the focus of the policies in terms of agricultural adaptation to climate change vary from protection of the environment to climate-smart agriculture. Agroforestry was found to be a highly prioritized CCA action in the documents. Most of the policy documents (16) make provisions for three tiers of institutional setup, while only 10 specifically allocate their required budgets with clear identification of their sources and monitoring and evaluation mechanisms at the national and subnational levels. The results also show that overlapping roles and responsibilities across ministries, the prioritization of adaptation action without quantified outcomes and a low priority being given to climate action—particularly at subnational levels—are major constraints on the implementation of these policies. In light of this, programs, activities, institutions and legal provisions are essential components in achieving the goals and objectives of any policy. So, each policy should have implementable programs and activities, institutional provisions with clearly defined responsibilities and legal provisions to overcome the obstacles.
要在农业部门成功实施气候变化适应行动(CCA),就必须制定具有具体目标和指标的综合政策。将 CCA 纳入农业政策可为协调规划和实施 CCA 行动提供有利环境。这项工作对尼泊尔将共同国家评估纳入农业政策的情况进行了评估。共评估了二十多年来发布的 23 项政策、计划、战略和框架。内容分析和知识挖掘基于五个替代标准进行:重点、适应战略、机构设置、财务管理以及监测和评估。结果表明,农业适应气候变化的政策重点各不相同,从环境保护到气候智能型农业。在这些文件中,农林业被认为是高度优先的共同国家评估行动。大多数政策文件(16 份)都规定了三级机构设置,但只有 10 份文件具体分配了所需预算,并明确说明了预算来源以及国家和国家以下各级的监测和评估机制。研究结果还显示,各部委的角色和责任重叠、适应行动的优先次序没有量化结果、气候行动的优先次序较低--尤其是在国家以下层面--是这些政策实施的主要制约因素。有鉴于此,计划、活动、机构和法律规定是实现任何政策目标的重要组成部分。因此,每项政策都应该有可实施的计划和活动、职责明确的制度规定以及克服障碍的法律规定。
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