ENIVRONMENT ASIA

Volume 15, No. 03, Month SEPTEMBER, Year 2022, Pages 1 - 13

Developing climate-smart agriculture indicators for sdg 1 and environmental implications in northern thailand

Thatchakorn Khamkhunmuang, Kittiyut Punchay, Panomsak Promburom, Prasit Wangpakapattanawong

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The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of eradicating poverty in all its forms and ensuring zero hunger by 2030 remain among the main challenges facing humanity. Farmers in many developing countries face poverty and food insecurity. Food production in 2050 must increase by 70% from current values to meet the needs of population extension. This article uses participatory tools in food security (FS) and Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) indicator development as a method for organizing and analyzing complex decision for highland smallholder farming communities in Mae Chaem district, Chiang Mai Province. The study showed that developing indicators using diverse participatory tools and questionaries of 196 Karen and Lawa households. The overall indicators were composed of three main topics, nine dimensions, 27 indicative components, and 76 indicators. The overall composite indices of the Karen and Lawa were 0.5485 and 0.5409, respectively. There were 76 plans for smallholder farming in the highland areas to achieve food security. This action could assist in partially achieving SDG 1 (No poverty), i.e., the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social, and environmental shocks and disasters.

Keywords

Climate change; Adaptation; Mitigation; Highland agriculture; Smallholder farming

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