Building Climate-Resilient Agricultural Systems through Sustainable Resource Management in the Global South

Climate change has a very grave and multidimensional menace to the agricultural systems of the Global South where livelihoods are heavily dependent on natural resources that are sensitive to climatic parameters. The paper will discuss sustainable resource management as one of the solutions to establishing climate-resilient agricultural systems, and in particular, water-use efficiency, soil conservation practices, and application of climate-smart agriculture. With the aid of the fixed-effects and system GMM estimations, the analysis of the impact of climatic variability and resource management policies on the agricultural productivity is measured by using panel data of selected economies in the Global South between 2000–2022. The results show that fluctuation in rainfalls and temperature variations is interrelated in delivering low crop yield, but successful water management, effective soil utilization, and adoption of agriculture sensitive to climate are very positive. It is also estimated by interaction that sustainable resource management reduces the negative impacts of climatic stress, and hence, agrarian resilience is enhanced. The findings indicate that integrative resource control, institutional support and policy model flexibility are important in enhancing agricultural sustainability amid increasing climate uncertainty. The study offers empirically grounded data on the policymakers that are keen on enabling resilient and sustainable agricultural transformation in the Global South.