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Options to Enhance the Impact of AKST on Development and Sustainability Goals | 381
Table 6-2. AKST options for addressing main challenges with related AKST gaps and needs.
| AKST potential to address challenge | AKST gaps and needs: Technology and knowledge | AKST gaps and needs: Capacity building, policies, and investments | Regional applicability |
| Preserving and maintaining natural resources and ecosystems | |||
| Minimize the negative impacts of agriculture expansion on ecosystem services (6.3.1.1, 6.1.1.1). | Trade-offs analysis to assess dynamic relations between the provision of ecosystem and economic services in conflicting areas. Develop biotechnologies to reduce impacts | Training of researchers, technicians, land administrators and policy makers for the application of tradeoffs analytical tools, and adoption of improved crop plants. | LAC(B) |
| Design of multifunctional agricultural landscapes that preserve and strength a sustainable flow of ecosystem services (6.7.5.2). | Configure systems to resemble structural and functional attributes of natural ecosystems | Enhance local capacities to develop land use strategies and policies to maximize the supply of essential ecosystem services. | LAC, SSA, tropical Asia (B) |
| Enhance the geographical spread of multifunctional agricultural systems and landscapes (6.7.5.2.1). | Typify the ecological service supplier as a new category of rural producer. | Implementation of public recognition and payment systems for ecological service suppliers that provide demonstrable services to society. | All regions |
| Creation of more conservation management areas (6.3.1.1) Sustainable management of fisheries and aquaculture (6.5) Environmental management of dams to reduce impact on aquatic ecosystems (6.6.3) Basin water management (6.6.3.2) |
Research designed to optimize productivity of the small/subsistence farmer. Incentives for in situ conservation Improved knowledge of contributions of capture and cultured fisheries to food and nutrition, food security and livelihoods Environmentally sound management of dams Basin management tools Benefit sharing tools for negotiation |
Promote transboundary initiatives and legislation Promote alternative strategy for meeting the increasing demands for fish products Promote improved fish technology Policies for effective water allocation |
All regions All regions All regions All regions |
| Improving water management | |||
| Improve water productivity by reducing evaporative losses (6.6.3.1) | Biotechnologies including genetics and physiology B,C | Semiarid areas (A) | |
| Restore existing irrigation systems (6.6.3.1) | Environmentally sound management of irrigation systems | Investment in irrigation | Sand SE Asia, Central Asia, China (A); SSA (B) |
| Increase sustainable use of groundwater (6.6.3.2) | Hydrologic process understanding for sustainable use of groundwater | S. Asia, China (A) SSA (B) | |
| Precision irrigation, deficit irrigation (6.6.3.1) | Technologies for use of low quality water in precision irrigation | Policies for secure access to water and for effective water allocation | NAE, MENA (A) S&SEAsia, SSA (B) |
| Rain water harvesting, supplemental and small scale irrigation for rainfed agriculture (6.6.3) | Affordable small scale technologies for rain water harvesting and water management | Investment in water management for rain-fed systems | S.Asia, SSA (A) |
| Integrated soil water and soil fertility management (6.4.2.1) | S. Asia, SSA (A) | ||
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