Climate change impact and adaptation in agricultural systems / edited by Jürg Fuhrer, Agroscope, Zurich, and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland, Peter J. Gregory, East Malling Research, Kent, and School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK.
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TextSeries: CABI climate change series ; 5.Publisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 285 pages, 8 pages of plates) : illustrations, charts, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- Crops and climate
- Climatic changes
- Agricultural systems
- Agricultural Economics
- Food Economics, (New March 2000)
- Plant Production
- Plant Cropping Systems
- Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000)
- Water Resources
- Meteorology and Climate
- Climate change
- Climatic factors
- Crop production
- Economics
- Ecosystems
- Farming systems
- Food security
- Human activity
- Livestock
- Sustainability
- Water resources
- EE110
- EE116
- FF100
- FF150
- LL180
- PP200
- PP500
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- S600.7.C54 C659 2014eb
This book contains 17 chapters focusing on the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, food security, water resources and economic stability. Strategies to develop sustainable systems that minimize impact on climate and/or mitigate the effects of human activity on climate change are also presented.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Climate projections for 2050 / Markku Rummukainen -- Rainfed intensive crop systems / Jørgen E. Olesen -- Climate sensitivity of intensive rice-wheat systems in tropical Asia : focus on the Indo-Gangetic plains / Anil Kumar Singh and Himanshu Pathak -- Climate change challenges for low-input cropping and grazing systems - Australia / Steven Crimp, Mark Howden, Chris Stokes, Serena Schroeter and Brian Keating -- Diversity in organic and agroecological farming systems for mitigation of climate change impact, with examples from Latin America / Walter A.H. Rossing, Pablo Modernel and Pablo A. Tittonell -- UK fruit and vegetable production - impacts of climate change and opportunities for adaptation / Rosemary Collier and Mark A. Else -- Intensive livestock systems for dairy cows / Robert J. Collier, Laun W. Hall and John F. Smith -- Climate change and integrated crop-livestock systems in temperate-humid regions of North and South America : mitigation and adaptation / Alan J. Franzluebbers -- Land managed for multiple services / Richard Aspinall -- Adaptation of mixed crop-livestock systems in Asia / Fujiang Hou -- Enhancing climate resilience of cropping systems / Heidi Webber, Helena Kahiluoto, Reimund Rötter and Frank Ewert -- Shaping sustainable intensive production systems : improved crops and cropping systems in the developing world / Clare Stirling, Jon Hellin, Jill Cairns, Elan Silverblatt-Buser, Tadele Tefera, Henry Ngugi, Sika Gbegbelegbe, Kindie Tesfaye, Uran Chung, Kai Sonder, Rachael A. Cox, Nele Verhulst, Bram Govaerts, Phillip Alderman and Matthew Reynolds -- The role of modelling in adapting and building the climate resilience of cropping systems / Helena Kahiluoto, Reimund Rötter, Heidi Webber and Frank Ewert -- Agroforestry solutions for buffering climate variability and adapting to change / Meine van Noordwijk, Jules Bayala, Kurniatun Hairiah, Betha Lusiana, Catherine Muthuri, Ni'matul Khasanah and Rachmat Mulia -- Channeling the future? The use of seasonal climate forecasts in climate adaptation / Lauren Rickards, Mark Howden and Steve Crimp -- Agricultural adaptation to climate change : new approaches to knowledge and learning / Julie Ingram -- What are the factors that dictate the choice of coping strategies to climate extreme events? The case of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia / Temesgen Tadesse Deressa.
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