The framework was applied to a case-study involving miscanthus biomass in the Burgundy region (Eastern France) to compare alternative biomass supply chain scenarios with different annual biomass demand, crop yield, harvest timing and densification technologies.
Climate-resiliency Field Schools serve as a multilevel institutional platform where farmers can access climate information, which they can use to improve farm planning (i.e., choices of crops, timing of farm preparation, and harvest).
Crop pattern and timing should be changed to adjust the situation.
Ideally, data are available on the land area and crops treated; the timing and method of applications; rates and number of application; the formulation applied and the total volume applied per hectare.
Tillage and sowing provided people much more influence over the timing of crop growth and harvest.
Here, models are needed to (i) predict the movement of crops and pathogens in the face of climate change and (ii) inform the timing of crop spraying with antifungals.
Organic residue management, the prevention of compaction, crop rotation and the timing of cultivation must all be considered together, taking into account their impact on pest populations and on the natural enemies of pests and ecosystem engineers.
To this end, it reviews the role that slash-and-burn cultivation has had in discussions about pre-Columbian Amazonia, discusses how this account has been modified by recent research on pre-Columbian anthropogenic soils, and queries the extent to which the regionally-heterogeneous timing of crop domestication and cultivation may have influenced the fire history of pre-Columbian Amazonia.
In practice, however, adaptation measures such as changing crop species or the timing of management operations (e.g., sowing, harvesting) also require the mainstreaming of new knowledge and techniques into farming practice, which could delay adaptation and could increase climate-related losses.
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