Following an overview of climate change and global crop productivity, the book is divided into 4 sections: the problem-changing biosphere (climatic change and variability, and agricultural contributions to greenhouse gas emissions); crop ecosystem responses to climatic change (rice, maize and sorghum, soyabean, cotton, root and tuberous crops, vegetable crops, tree crops, productive grasslands, rangelands, crassulacean acid metabolism crops, crop-weed interactions, pests and population dynamics, soil organic matter dynamics, and interactive effects of ozone, ultraviolet-B radiation, sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide); mitigation strategies (crop breeding strategies for the 21st century, and role of biotechnology in crop productivity in a changing environment); and economic and social impacts (global, regional and local food production and trade in a changing environment).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate change and global crop productivity : an overview / K.R. Reddy and H.F. Hodges -- Climate change and variability / L.O. Mearns -- Agricultural contributions to greenhouse gas emissions / D.C. Reicosky, J.L. Hatfield and R.L. Sass -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : wheat / D.W. Lawlor and R.A.C. Mitchell -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : Rice / T. Horie, J.T. Baker, H. Nakagawa, T. Matsui and H.Y. Kim -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : maize and sorghum / K.J. Young and S.P. Long -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : soybean / L. Hartwell Allen, Jr and K.J. Boote -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : cotton / K.R. Reddy, H.F. Hodges and B.A. Kimball -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : root and tuberous crops / F. Miglietta, M. Bindi, F.P. Vaccari, A.H.C.M. Schapendonk, J. Wolf and R.E. Butterfield -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : vegetable crops / M.M. Peet and D.W. Wolf -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : tree crops / I.A. Janssens, M. Mousseau and R. Ceulemans -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : productive grasslands / J. Nösberger, H. Blum and J. Fuhrer -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : Rangelands / H.W. Polley, J.A. Morgan, B.D. Campbell and M.S. Smith -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : crassulacean and metabolism crops / P.S. Nobel -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : crop/weed interactions / J.A. Bunce and L.H. Ziska -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : pests and population dynamics / A.P. Gutierrez -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : soil organic matter dynamics / G.I. Ågren and A.-C. Hansson -- Crop ecosystem responses to climatic change : interactive effects of ozone, ultraviolet-B radiation, sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide on crops / J.V. Groth and S.V. Krupa -- Crop breeding strategies for the 21st century / A.E. Hall and L.H. Ziska -- Role of biotechnology in crop productivity in a changing environment / N. Cheikh, P.W. Miller and G. Kishore -- Global, regional and local food production and trade in a changing environment / J. Reilly, D. Schimmelpfennig and J. Lewandrowski.

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