Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems

Current Challenges and Adaptation

Olubukola Oluranti Babalola, Joginder Singh Panwar, Gustavo Santoyo, Ajay Kumar

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443265211
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Fully revised to include the latest scientific developments, Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems: Current Challenges and Adaptation, Second Edition continues to provide vital insights into the complex and dynamic relationship between climate, agriculture, soil and plants. Building on its proven value in guiding real-world application as well as inspiring further research, this new edition includes new insights and practices. Agricultural ecosystems are highly dependent on weather and climate for the production of necessary foods to sustain human life. Despite leading cutting-edge tools and technologies for developing improved varieties, genetically modified organisms, and irrigation systems, climate change is still a major constraint to agricultural productivity. It takes years to assess the impacts of climate change and vulnerability to it and to prepare proper countermeasures against it. Developing countermeasures drawn based on scientific diagnosis and assessment of the impacts of climate change on agriculture are essential in establishing the vision and administrative policies of future agriculture. Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems focuses on recent research and updates on interactions between agriculture, ecosystems, environment, and climate change bringing together ideas and innovations of the latest scientific findings on climate change and enriched by renowned researchers knowledge and experience in this field. It reflects the importance of acting now on climate change: to eliminate hunger; to enable the agriculture sectors to adapt to climate change. - Covers latest advances in climate resilient agriculture and food security - Focuses on factors of climate change and their impact on food crops - Features the latest metagenomic and informatics approaches to studying response strategies to climate change

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• 1 The impact of climate change on agricultural ecosystem
• 2 Flood risk and climate change: global and regional perspectives
• 3 Impact of xenobiotics under a changing climate scenario
• 4 Impact of climate change on plant–microbe interactions under agroecosystems
• 5 An agroecological perspective for climate-smart agriculture
• 6 Climate change: a challenge for postharvest management, food loss, food quality
• 7 Impact of plant growth promoting microorganisms on draught and salinity stress management
• 8 Abatement techniques for greenhouse gases and ammonia emissions from livestock farms and a computational software
• 9 Impact of climate change on plant productivity and ecosystem sustainability: challenges and solutions
• 10 Harnessing microbes for drought stress mitigation: a promising approach for water stress management in plants
• 11 Plant–microbe interaction: a “celestial wedlock” that overcomes climatic disasters for sustainable development
• 12 Impact of climate change on pest and disease outbreaks in agricultural ecosystems
• 13 Climate change and secondary metabolism in plants: resilience to disruption
• 14 Impact of xenobiotics under a changing climate scenario: an actualization
• 15 Impact of climate change on food security and plant disease management
• 16 Rising CO2, thriving plants: unraveling growth mechanisms and adaptive strategies
• 17 Agrochemicals: harmful and beneficial effects of climate change scenarios
• 18 Smart crop varieties and Precision agriculture: a way ahead for climate-resilient sustainable agriculture
• 19 Sustainable agricultural practices using beneficial fungi under changing climate scenarios
• Index