Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
Series:
CABI Climate Change Series;
15;
Publisher: CAB International
Date of Publication: 15 November 2019
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781786395351 |
| ISBN10: | 1786395355 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 298 pages |
| Size: | 244x172 mm |
| Language: | English |
| 1300 |
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Short description:
This book focuses on future global climate change and its implications for agricultural systems which are the main sources of agricultural goods and services to society. This book brings together a series of chapters providing scientific insights to possible implications of projected climate changes for different crop types and livestock systems.
Long description:
Table of Contents:
- a: Introduction
- 1: Climate projections for 2050
- 2: Rainfed Intensive Crop Systems
- 3: Climate Sensitivity of Intensive Rice-Wheat Systems in Tropical Asia: Focus on the Indo-Gangetic Plains
- 4: Climate Change Challenges for Low Input Cropping and Grazing Systems ? Australia
- 5: Diversity in Organic and Agroecological Farming Systems for Mitigation of Climate Change Impact, with Examples from Latin America
- 6: UK Fruit and Vegetable Production ? Impacts of Climate Change and Opportunities for Adaptation
- 7: Intensive Livestock Systems for Dairy Cows
- 8: Climate Change and Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Temperate-Humid Regions of North and South America: Mitigation and Adaptation
- 9: Land Managed for Multiple Services
- 10: Adaptation of Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Asia
- 11: Enhancing Climate Resilience of Cropping Systems
- 12: Shaping Sustainable Intensive Production Systems: Improved Crops and Cropping Systems in the Developing World
- 13: The Role of Modelling in Adapting and Building the Climate Resilience of Cropping Systems
- 14: Agroforestry Solutions for Buffering Climate Variability and Adapting to Change
- 15: Channelling the Future? The Use of Seasonal Climate Forecasts in Climate Adaptation
- 16: Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change: New Approaches to Knowledge and Learning
- 17: What are the Factors that Dictate the Choice of Coping Strategies for Extreme Climate Events? The Case of Farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia
