Location : ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India
Date : 2024-11-25 09:00:00
The CGIAR initiative on Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems (SIMFS) seeks to deliver equitable and transformational pathways that enhance the livelihoods of stakeholders within mixed farming systems. By promoting sustainable intensification practices, SIMFS addresses the unique agroecological and socioeconomic contexts of these systems, thereby fostering improved living conditions and economic prosperity for communities engaged in mixed farming. Traditionally, each farm household has cultivated a unique farming system. To enhance these systems, the Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems (SI-MFS) approach combines various components and enterprises within a single farm unit or household, with the aim of supporting food security and livelihoods. However, the complexities of these farming systems involve multifaceted interactions influenced by both biophysical and socio-economic factors. These factors collectively determine the efficacy of farming systems in delivering food and nutrition security, while simultaneously shaping the complex web of socio-economic and environmental Modern approaches in systems analysis for designing actionable systemic strategies towards Sustainable Mixed Farming Systems 25 to 29 November 2024 ICRISAT, Patancheru, Telangana, India International Training Workshop on performance indicators. The overarching goal is to minimize climate and market risks, enhance the resilience of small-scale farmers, and craft farming systems that are not only climate-resilient and profitable but also sustainable and low-emission. Multiple improved technologies/practices are being suggested to enhance the performance of these complex multi-objective smallholder systems. The smallholder farming systems are highly heterogeneous and need differentiated interventions and strategies. To achieve transformation towards resilient, profitable, inclusive and environmentally sustainable farm and food systems, there is need to account for economic, social, environmental sustainability and human wellbeing dimensions of the smallholder farming systems. Further, the inability of the farmers, extension actors and policymakers to visualize the potential impact of different agricultural development strategies on heterogenous farming systems hinders decisions on investments on improved options for achieving increased adaptation, food production, farm profitability and other related objectives both over short and long-time horizon.
