Climate Change and Agricultural Development: Improving Resilience through Climate Smart Agriculture, Agroecology and Conservation

ISBN-13: 9781138364080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 322 str.

Udaya Sekhar Nagothu

Opis

This book explains what Climate Smart Agriculture, agroecology and conservation agriculture can contributed to climate change adaptation and mitigation. It presents practical on-the-ground studies of practices and innovations in agriculture in less developed countries.

Spis treści

1. Climate Smart Agriculture: Is This the New Paradigm of Agricultural Development?  Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Solveig Kolberg and Clare Maeve Stirling  2. Climate Extremes, Climate Variability and Climate Smart Agriculture  Molly E. Brown  3. Building Climate Resilience through Smart Water and Irrigation Management Systems: Experience from Southeast Asia  Matthew P. McCartney, Robyn Johnston and Guillaume Lacombe  4. Combating Climate Change: Developing Sustainable Intensive Farming Systems in China  Mei Xurong, Dong Hongmin, Li Yue, Nicholas Clarke, Gong Daozhi, Hao Weiping, Li Yingchun, Liu Buchun, Ma Xin and Xiong Wei  5. Climate Variabilityand Extremes: Relevance of Agro-ecological-based Climate Smart Farming Systems in the Sub-Saharan Africa  Sita Ghimire, Monday Ahonsi and Appolinaire Djikeng  6. Building Resilience in African Smallholder Farming Communities through Farmer-led Agro-ecological Methods  Rachel Bezner Kerr, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Esther Lupafya, Laifolo Dakishoni, Lizzie. Shumba and Isaac Luginaah  7. Precision Nutrient Management under Conservation Agriculture-based Cereal Systems in South Asia  Tek B. Sapkota, Kaushik Majumdar, Ritika Khurana, Raj K. Jat, Clare Maeve Stirling and Jat M.L.  8. Integrated Soil and Nutrient Management Practices: Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change Impacts  Mehreteab Tesfai, Irene Moed, Inga Greipsland, Thorsten Huber and Niek van Duivenbooden  9. Water Productivity under Different Rice Growing Practices: Results from Farmer-led Field Demonstrations in India  Johannes Deelstra, Krishna Reddy K., Suresh Reddy K., Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Geethalakshmi V., Lakshmanan A. and Arasu M.S.  10. Climate Smart Rice Production Systems: Studying the Potential of Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation  Krishna Reddy K., Mehreteab Tesfai, Andrew Borrell, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Suresh Reddy K. and Gurava Reddy K.  11. System of Rice Intensification: A Climate-smart Rice Cultivation System to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts in India  Geethalakshmi V., Mehreteab Tesfai, Lakshmanan A., Andrew Borrell, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Arasu M.S., Senthilraja K., Manikandan N. and Sumathi S.  12. Gendered Adaptation to Climate Change in Canal-irrigated Agro-ecosystems  Rengalakshmi R. and Udaya Sekhar Nagothu  13. Climate Mitigation and Adaptation: Institutional and Policy Support in India  Solveig Kolberg and Udaya Sekhar Nagothu  14. Summary and Recommendations  Udaya Sekhar Nagothu

O autorze

Udaya Sekhar Nagothu is a Professor and Director (International Projects) at NIBIO (Norsk institutt for biookonomi /Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research), As, Norway. He is the editor of Food Security and Development: Country Case Studies (Routledge, 2015).