Climate Change and Agricultural Development (eBook, ePUB)

Improving Resilience through Climate Smart Agriculture, Agroecology and Conservation
Redaktion: Nagothu, Udaya Sekhar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains what Climate Smart Agriculture, agroecology and conservation agriculture can contributed to climate change adaptation and mitigation. It presents practical on-the-ground studies of practices and innovations in agriculture in less developed countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317413684
• Artikelnr.: 45475152

Autorenporträt

Udaya Sekhar Nagothu is a Professor and Director (International Projects) at NIBIO (Norsk institutt for biookonomi /Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research), As, Norway. He is the editor of Food Security and Development: Country Case Studies (Routledge, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Climate Smart Agriculture: Is This the New Paradigm of Agricultural Development? Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
Solveig Kolberg and Clare Maeve Stirling 2. Climate Extremes
Climate Variability and Climate Smart Agriculture Molly E. Brown 3. Building Climate Resilience through Smart Water and Irrigation Management Systems: Experience from Southeast Asia Matthew P. McCartney
Robyn Johnston and Guillaume Lacombe 4. Combating Climate Change: Developing Sustainable Intensive Farming Systems in China Mei Xurong
Dong Hongmin
Li Yue
Nicholas Clarke
Gong Daozhi
Hao Weiping
Li Yingchun
Liu Buchun
Ma Xin and Xiong Wei 5. Climate Variabilityand Extremes: Relevance of Agro-ecological-based Climate Smart Farming Systems in the Sub-Saharan Africa Sita Ghimire
Monday Ahonsi and Appolinaire Djikeng 6. Building Resilience in African Smallholder Farming Communities through Farmer-led Agro-ecological Methods Rachel Bezner Kerr
Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
Esther Lupafya
Laifolo Dakishoni
Lizzie. Shumba and Isaac Luginaah 7. Precision Nutrient Management under Conservation Agriculture-based Cereal Systems in South Asia Tek B. Sapkota
Kaushik Majumdar
Ritika Khurana
Raj K. Jat
Clare Maeve Stirling and Jat M.L. 8. Integrated Soil and Nutrient Management Practices: Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change Impacts Mehreteab Tesfai
Irene Moed
Inga Greipsland
Thorsten Huber and Niek van Duivenbooden 9. Water Productivity under Different Rice Growing Practices: Results from Farmer-led Field Demonstrations in India Johannes Deelstra
Krishna Reddy K.
Suresh Reddy K.
Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
Geethalakshmi V.
Lakshmanan A. and Arasu M.S. 10. Climate Smart Rice Production Systems: Studying the Potential of Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Krishna Reddy K.
Mehreteab Tesfai
Andrew Borrell
Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
Suresh Reddy K. and Gurava Reddy K. 11. System of Rice Intensification: A Climate-smart Rice Cultivation System to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts in India Geethalakshmi V.
Mehreteab Tesfai
Lakshmanan A.
Andrew Borrell
Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
Arasu M.S.
Senthilraja K.
Manikandan N. and Sumathi S. 12. Gendered Adaptation to Climate Change in Canal-irrigated Agro-ecosystems Rengalakshmi R. and Udaya Sekhar Nagothu 13. Climate Mitigation and Adaptation: Institutional and Policy Support in India Solveig Kolberg and Udaya Sekhar Nagothu 14. Summary and Recommendations Udaya Sekhar Nagothu