Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability write by Mukhtar Ahmed. This book was released on 2016-09-06. Quantification of Climate Variability, Adaptation and Mitigation for Agricultural Sustainability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comprehensive volume dealing with climate change impacts on agriculture, and which can help guide the redesign of agricultural management and cropping systems. It includes mitigation techniques such as use of bioenergy crops, fertilizer and manure management, conservation tillage, crop rotations, cover crops and cropping intensity, irrigation, erosion control, management of drained wetlands, lime amendments, residue management, biochar and biotechnology. It also includes Management of GHG emissions Crop models as decision support tools QTL analysis Crop water productivity Impacts of drought on cereal crops Silvopastoral systems Changing climate impact on wheat-based cropping systems of South Asia Phosphorous dynamics under changing climate Role of bioinformatics The focus of the book is climate change mitigation to enhance sustainability in agriculture. We present various kinds of mitigation options, ways to minimize GHG emissions and better use of the latest techniques in conservation and environmental-sustainability.
Coping with a Changing Climate
Coping with a Changing Climate - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coping with a Changing Climate write by Michael H. Glantz. This book was released on 2009. Coping with a Changing Climate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first two chapters of the book present historical evidence of relationship between climate and food security, as well as current challenges of world food security posed by climate change.
Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture
Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture write by Eva Wollenberg. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reviews the state of agricultural climate change mitigation globally, with a focus on identifying the feasibility, opportunities and challenges for achieving mitigation among smallholder farmers. The purpose is ultimately to accelerate efforts towards mitigating land-based climate change. While much attention has been focused on forestry for its reputed cost-effectiveness, the agricultural sector contributes about ten to twelve per cent of emissions and has a large technical and economic potential for reducing greenhouse gases. The book does not dwell on the science of emissions reduction, as this is well covered elsewhere; rather, it focuses on the design and practical implementation of mitigation activities through changing farming systems. Climate Change Mitigation and Agriculture includes chapters about experiences in developed countries, such as Canada and Australia, where these efforts also have lessons for mitigation options for smallholders in poorer nations, as well as industrialising countries such as Brazil and China. A wide range of agroecological zones and of aspects or types of farming, including livestock, crops, fish farming, fertilizer use and agroforestry, as well as economics and finance, is included. The volume presents a synthesis of current knowledge and research activities on this emerging subject. Together the chapters capture an exciting period in the development of land-based climate change mitigation as attention is increasingly focused on agriculture's role in contributing to climate change.
Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change
Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change write by Christopher R. Bryant. This book was released on 2016-08-26. Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book deals with one of the major challenges facing human society and its governments, climate change and variability. The principal objective of the book is to explore how agricultural production through the actions primarily of farmers, including peasant farmers, adapt to these changing circumstances, what the limitations of adaptation are, how the process of adaptation varies between different territories (e.g. developed countries versus developing countries), and what are or can be the most effective roles for actors other than the farmers, including different levels of government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as professional associations of farmers and community organizations. The principal argument is threefold: 1) while there are significant differences between territories and countries in terms of the capacity of farmers (and the other actors) to engage in capacity building to be able to adapt effectively to climate change and variability, 2) the critical roles are those played out by the farmers themselves, but that 3) other actors can play an important role in accompanying farmers in their adaptation process, providing relevant and strategic information, counseling them and facilitating networking and meetings when appropriate. This effectively means that without engaging in the local adaptation processes governments can really only play effective roles by working with other actors at the local and regional levels. When it occurs, it can be very effective, but when it does not, farmers are left to their own devices (and even then, many are able to use their own creativity and local knowledge to survive and continue to develop). Essentially therefore, the secondary argument that is followed throughout the book is that adaptation is essentially a social process that requires an understanding of social processes and dynamics in each farming community and territory. It involves an understanding, for instance, of information diffusion processes in the different farming communities and territories, which provides a set of tools to promote and facilitate the adoption process in the context of adaptation to climate change and variability.
Increasing Climate Variability and Change
Increasing Climate Variability and Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Increasing Climate Variability and Change write by James Salinger. This book was released on 2005-12-06. Increasing Climate Variability and Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reviews the latest assessments of climate variability and climate change, and their impacts on agriculture and forestry, and recommends appropriate adaptation strategies for reducing the vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to climate variability and climate change. Among other solutions, the text offers management strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from different agroecosystems, and proposes the use of seasonal climate forecasts to reduce climate risk.
