Climate Change and Agriculture Worldwide

ISBN-13: 9789402404463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 348 str.

Emmanuel Torquebiau

Recenzje

"Focusing primarily on developing regions, Torquebiau ... has organized the essays into three primary parts: coping strategies, innovative approaches, and the process of stimulating change. ... Useful for agricultural collections specializing in resource planning, conservation, and environmental studies that support advanced readers. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners." (L. S. Cline, Choice, Vol. 53 (9), May, 2016)

"The book addresses the challenges to be faced in future warming conditions in terms of various 'risks and vulnerability' and discusses plausible strategies for converting agriculture as a sustainable enterprise. ... the book offers some doable solutions for sustainable agricultural practices under changing climatic conditions and is interesting to a wide range of readers such as students, researchers, agricultural scientists, policy makers and regulatory agencies across the world." (Pradeep K. Dubey, Gopal S. Singh, P. C. Abhilash, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 113, 2016)

Spis treści

Preface.- Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. How climate change reshuffles the cards for agriculture.- PART 1 – COPING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE.- Chapter 2. Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk.- Chapter 3. Rice adaptation strategies in response to heat stress at flowering.- Chapter 4. Adaptation to salinity.- Chapter 5. Enhanced drought adaptation in African savanna crops.- Chapter 6. Tropical crop pests and diseases in a climate change setting – a few examples.- Chapter 7. Healthy tropical plants to mitigate the impact of climate change – as exemplified in coffee.- Chapter 8. Climate change and vector-borne zoonotic diseases.- Chapter 9. Relationships between tropical annual cropping systems and climate change.- PART 2 - SEEKING NOVEL PRACTICES.- Chapter 10. Livestock farming constraints in developing countries – from adaptation to mitigation in ruminant production systems.- Chapter 11. Climate-smart farms? Case studies in Burkina Faso and Colombia.- Chapter 12. Joint management of water resources in response to climate change disruptions.- Chapter 13. Agricultural organic waste recycling to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.- Chapter 14. Will tropical rainforests survive climate change?.- Chapter 15. Adaptation and mitigation in tropical tree plantations.- Chapter 16. Coffee and cocoa production in agroforestry – a climate-smart agriculture model.- PART 3 - STIMULATING CHANGE.- Chapter 17. Impact of climate change on food consumption and nutrition.- Chapter 18. The One Health concept to dovetail health and climate change policies.- Chapter 19. Impact of climate change on ecosystem services.- Chapter 20. Life cycle assessment to understand agriculture-climate change linkages.- Chapter 21. Payment for environmental services in climate change policies.- Chapter 22. Tackling the climate change challenge: What roles for certification and ecolabels?.- Chapter 23. Climate policy assessment on global and national scales.- PART 4 - LOOKING AHEAD.- Chapter 24. What about climate-smart agriculture?.- Chapter 25. Climate-smart agriculture and international climate change negotiation forums.- Chapter 26. New research perspectives to address climate challenges facing agriculture worldwide.- Boxes.- List of Authors.- Research Unit Acronyms.

O autorze

Dr. Emmanuel Torquebiau, CIRAD (Frnch Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, Montpellier, France.