REVIEW article
Front. Clim.
Sec. Climate Adaptation
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fclim.2025.1594747
This article is part of the Research TopicClimate-Environment Resiliency and AdaptationView all 5 articles
Livelihood adaptation to climate-related changes in agroecological zones in developing countrieschallenges, prospects and policy concerns
Provisionally accepted
- University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana
Select one of your emails
You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers:
Notify me on publication
Please enter your email address:
If you already have an account, please login
You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here
Climate change significantly threatens the livelihoods, biodiversity, and food security within agroecological zones (AEZs) of developing countries. This research presents a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles published between 2013 and 2023, highlighting facilitators and deterrents of effective livelihood adaptation strategies across AEZs within developing nations. The study identified two main thematic areas from these studies across several geographic regions: Challenges and Policies. These thematic areas were common across the AEZs, each with four primary subthematic areas. These subthemes highlighted insufficient stakeholder engagement, inconsistent policies, environmental harm or damage, and technological deficiencies. The review highlights the urgency of incorporating traditional participatory approaches and enhancing stakeholder harmonisation for robust policy formation. It emphasises the need for a tailored approach to adaptation strategies to address the distinct social, ecological, and governance structures of each unique AEZ according to its geographic characteristics. Finally, this review offers a new perspective on the complexity of climate change adaptation in AEZs, while establishing the foundation for future scholarly work and policy initiatives pertinent to enhancing resilience and coping mechanisms to climate change within AEZs of developing nations.
Keywords: Agriculture, Coping mechanisms, Climate Change, environmental, Global Warming, Human Activities
Received: 16 Mar 2025; Accepted: 26 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hamer, Oyedotun, Charles and Moonsammy. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Esan Ayeni Hamer, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.