A support tool for enhancing policy decision making for climate change adaptation in agriculture: An information systems approach
Abstract
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Policy decision making often fails to achieve the desired
outcomes due to complexity of both the environment and the
policy making process itself. This article highlights the impacts
of climate change on human livelihood, discusses the wait-andsee
behaviour and its policy implications towards climate
mitigation actions. It also demonstrates that existing techniques
such as correlation heuristics (CH) have not been very useful
in policy decision making compared to system dynamics
approach that can handle complex problems involving a multitude
of stakeholders holistically, model feedback based dynamic
processes. It seeks to develop a support tool as an alternative
approach for enhancing policy decision making for climate
change adaptation in agriculture. The findings of this study will
be utilised in the identification of vulnerabilities and coping
measures as they relate to the various agricultural production
strategies, improving climate forecasts along with procedures
for use in agricultural management and integration of climate
risks management in agricultural business strategies. The
designed tool will lead to integration and standardisation of
vulnerability indicators that relevant stakeholders can use to
develop, review and harmonise national sector policies with regional/international polices related to climate change
adaptation and mitigation.
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