Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Agriculture

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Key topics

Core topics

• Climate change and agriculture
• Agroforestry
• Carbon farming
• Farmer
• Climate change and agriculture in the United States
• Climate change and fisheries
• Low-carbon diet
• Climate-friendly gardening
• Climate-smart agriculture
• Deforestation and climate change
• Sustainable agriculture
• Smallholding
• Regenerative agriculture

• Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Related topics:

• Climate change and potatoes

• Effects of climate change on wine production
• Enteric fermentation
• Environmental impact of meat production
• Social and environmental impact of palm oil
• Environmental vegetarianism

• Holistic management (agriculture)

• Palmer drought index

Actions

This section is an excerpt from Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Small to medium tasks § Climate change and agriculture.[edit]

• Improve an article in Category:Climate change and agriculture or add new content to the category
• Add a section about the impacts of climate change in a particular geography or country to agriculture. To find these pages see this Petscan query or Category:Climate change by country this category. See Climate_change_in_Kenya for a good example of an article that integrates the climate impacts.
• Add a paragraph or section to one of the articles about Agriculture by country about climate change or sustainable agriculture in those countries. Its important to highlight the gap between the current impacts of climate change and the adaptation practices needed for a sustainable future.
• Add a paragraph or section about sustainability or climate adaptation to articles about specific crops by country -- like the by country articles -- regionally specific crops are going to have specific effects.

Key Sources

• IPCC (2019). Shukla, P.R.; Skea, J.; Calvo Buendia, E.; Masson-Delmotte, V.; et al. (eds.). IPCC Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse gas fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems (PDF). In press. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/.

Events & article drives

Sustainable Agriculture Editing Event -- March 11-15, 2021

Edit, learn and help us identify climate justice topics on Wikipedia

Join the Edit-a-thon by adding your user account to the Programs and Events Dashboard

• Join a Zoom Meeting with an introduction to the topic and introductory editing training:
  • Hour One: 16:00 UTC (participate via Zoom)
  • Hour Two: 18:30 UTC (participate via Zoom)
• Read the blog post about the Live event: Wikipedia and agriculture of the future
  • Thursday, 11 March 2021 at 13:00 UTC, watch via Zoom or YouTube

Need support during the editathon? Ask questions at the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development Telegram channel.

See the slide deck introduction

Actions

• Help us identify climate and agriculture topics on Wikipedias by adding them to the lists above.
• Contribute citations to articles related to Sustainable Agriculture topics via Citation Hunt. Looking for more opportunities in the broader Climate Change Citation Hunt
• Add a paragraph or section to one of the articles about Agriculture by country about climate change or sustainable agriculture in those countries.
• Add a paragraph or section about sustainabilty or climate adaptation to articles about specific crops by country
• Help us write about Women Environmentalists or translate their biographies into other languages
  • For translation of these biographies, we recommend using the WikiGapFinder tool, looking for articles related to sustainable agriculture or biographies related to food security
• Not finding something you want to do? Try other recommended actions on the WikiProject Climate Change's Small to Medium Tasks