Climate Change and Agriculture

Perspectives, Sustainability and Resilience

Noureddine Benkeblia

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781119789758
• eBook ISBN: 9781119789765
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Sustainable Agriculture
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Climate Change and Agriculture

Authoritative and comprehensive resource covering climate-smart agriculture with key insights into its implementation

Climate Change and Agriculture provides a complete overview of the development of sustainable agroecosystems and cropping systems and details how to improve the resilience of cultivated crops and cropping systems to the adverse conditions of the climate, such as drought, increasing levels of carbon dioxide, global warming, and many other secondary effects such as soils fertility depletion, uncommon disease, and pests. Additionally, the text suggests different agricultural practices to face the severity of frequency of the natural events.

Climate Change and Agriculture also delves into the different climate-resilient methods and climate-smarter agriculture (CSA) for food production by building healthier soils through different sustainable practices, redesigning diverse agroecosystems, and developing new crop varieties, livestock breeds, and farm practices. Insight into how modern technology has affected the field, and how it may affect the field in the future, is included.

Other topics discussed in Climate Change and Agriculture include:

• Climate change and agriculture (state of the art, challenges, and perspectives), plus studies on crop yields and their extreme value analysis over India
• Symbiosis for food security and sustainability in changing climate and emerging issues related to conservation agriculture in Africa
• The role of periurban agriculture in sustainability and climate change, with additional information on nutrient management in agro-ecosystems
• Soil fertility management and biofertilization in changing climate and biochar mitigating abiotic stress-induced damages under changing climate

For academics and students; seed, fertilizer, and chemical producers; farmers and farming communities; and policy makers, Climate Change and Agriculture contains invaluable insights into the subject that are helpful in understanding the current state of the field and preparing for potential future developments.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Foreword
• Chapter 1 Climate Change and Agriculture: State of the Art, Challenges, and Perspectives
• Chapter 2 Climate-Smart Plants Combat Climate Change and Liability for Food Security
• Chapter 3 Adapting Crops to Climate Change
• Chapter 4 Role of Biotechnology in Climate-Resilient Agriculture
• Chapter 5 Breeding Crops for Tolerance to Salinity, Heat, and Drought
• Chapter 6 Innovative Approaches in the Breeding of Climate-Resilient Crops
• Chapter 7 Challenges of Soil Fertility Under Changing Climate and Its Opposing Components
• Chapter 8 The Declining Trend of Soil Fertility with Climate Change and Its Solution
• Chapter 9 Nano-Black Carbon Is an Organic Tool for the Alleviation of Abiotic Stresses and Its Certain Damages Under Changing Climate
• Chapter 10 Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Nonlegume Plants and Changing Climate
• Chapter 11 Role of Phosphorus in Imparting Abiotic Stress Tolerance to Plants
• Chapter 12 Climate Change and Cereal Production
• Chapter 13 Impact of Climate Change on Tea Cultivation and Adaptation Strategies: Special Emphasis on Tea Pests in North East India
• Chapter 14 Impact of Climate Change on Integrated Pest Management Strategies
• Chapter 15 Climate Change and Its Effects on Plant Viruses
• Chapter 16 Utilization of Biowastes in Green Chemistry
• Chapter 17 Assessing Satellite-Based Products in Characterizing Agricultural Drought Under Climate Changein Northeast Brazil
• Chapter 18 Understanding Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change: The Case of the Zambezi Region, Namibia
• Index
• EULA