TY - GEN
T1 - Affordable greenhouses
T2 - 5th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2015
AU - Biek, Megan A.
AU - Chung, Wanchen
AU - Mehta, Khanjan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/12/2
Y1 - 2015/12/2
N2 - The African continent is most vulnerable to climate change due to a multitude of environmental stressors and low adaptive capacity. Climate change stresses agriculture via rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns, as well as increased soil vulnerability, climate variability, pests and crop disease, and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. Affordable greenhouse solutions work on a small, sustainable scale to mitigate some of the effects of climate change and provide strategies for smallholder farmers to adapt to the changing environment. Greenhouses cannot reverse climate change, but they are well suited to increase the adaptive capacity of the agricultural sector in developing nations. This article examines affordable greenhouses and the role they play in mitigating the effects of climate change for small-scale farmers.
AB - The African continent is most vulnerable to climate change due to a multitude of environmental stressors and low adaptive capacity. Climate change stresses agriculture via rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns, as well as increased soil vulnerability, climate variability, pests and crop disease, and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. Affordable greenhouse solutions work on a small, sustainable scale to mitigate some of the effects of climate change and provide strategies for smallholder farmers to adapt to the changing environment. Greenhouses cannot reverse climate change, but they are well suited to increase the adaptive capacity of the agricultural sector in developing nations. This article examines affordable greenhouses and the role they play in mitigating the effects of climate change for small-scale farmers.
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U2 - 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343991
DO - 10.1109/GHTC.2015.7343991
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84960327086
T3 - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2015
SP - 321
EP - 325
BT - Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 8 October 2015 through 11 October 2015
ER -