Climate-Smart Agriculture - Ouda, Samiha;Zohry, Abd El-Hafeez
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This book tackles the main feature of water-smart, soil-smart and crop-smart practices and their integration to sustainably enhance food production. The book includes some insights on the implications of using climate-smart practices in irrigated and rain-fed agriculture, and suggests approaches to eradicate the negative effects of water scarcity, climate variability and climate change. The book reviews the most important crops resilient to climate variability and their resistance to other biotic and abiotic stresses, and contains the existing practices in Egypt that achieved the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture…mehr

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This book tackles the main feature of water-smart, soil-smart and crop-smart practices and their integration to sustainably enhance food production. The book includes some insights on the implications of using climate-smart practices in irrigated and rain-fed agriculture, and suggests approaches to eradicate the negative effects of water scarcity, climate variability and climate change. The book reviews the most important crops resilient to climate variability and their resistance to other biotic and abiotic stresses, and contains the existing practices in Egypt that achieved the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture

Autorenporträt
Professor Samiha Ouda received her BSc. from Cairo University in 1982 (Agricultural Economy Department), Egypt and her MSc from Ain Shams University in 1993 (Agronomy Department), Egypt. She received her PhD in 1998 from Iowa State University, USA (Crop Physiology and management), and was appointed as professor in 2009. Professor Ouda has been working in the Agricultural Research Center in Water Requirements and Field Irrigation Research Department; Soils Water and Environment Institute; in Egypt for 28 years.  She has won four prizes: two of them local, the third one from International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID-CIID) in 2015 and the fourth one from The Arabic Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) in 2018. She published 94 research papers, 50 book chapters and 4 books on irrigation water management, modeling, crop simulation, agro-climatology, climate change impacts on crops and its water requirements. Professor Ouda has supervised 4 Master and PhDtheses on simulation models and climate change. Professor Abd El-Hafeez Zohry has been working in the Agricultural Research Center for 28 years in Crops Intensification Research Department; Field Crops Research Institute; Agricultural Research Center in Egypt.  He received his BSc from El-Minia University in Egypt in 1987 (General Agriculture Department) and his MSc from Al-Azhar University in 1990 in Egypt (Agronomy Department). Professor Zohry received his PhD in 1994 from Al-Azhar University (Crop Physiology and Production), and was appointed professor in 2006. He has published 44 research papers, 33 book chapters, 2 books and 4 extension bulletins on intensive cropping, and crop rotations. Professor Zohry has supervised one MSc and one PhDs theses on intensive cropping. Professor Zohry was awarded the water innovation prize from International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID-CIID) in 2015 and was awarded with the prize of The Arabic Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) in 2018.