Climate Change And Agricultural Food Production

Author : Golam Kibria
Publisher : New India Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : 938145051X

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Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production by Golam Kibria Pdf

The book 'Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production: Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Remedies' provides an overview of climate change impacts on all agricultural food producing sectors (agriculture, livestock and fisheries), food contamination, and food safety (microbial pathogens, toxic biological & toxic chemical contaminants), food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation measures to counteract or minimise or reduce the effects of climate change on agriculture, livestock and fisheries. It reviews and summarizes research results, data and information from the world including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Polar Regions and Small Island Nations. The book has been structured as textbook, reference book and extension book and written in simple and plain English with key facts and acronyms and glossary provided in each with tables and figures to benefit a wide range of readeThe key data and information provided in each are highlighted below:

Author : Fakhri A. Bazzaz,Wim G. Sombroek
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : 9251039879

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Global Climate Change and Agricultural Production by Fakhri A. Bazzaz,Wim G. Sombroek Pdf

Author : Golam Kibria,A. K. Yousuf Haroon,Dayanthi Nugegoda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : 9351244296

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Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production by Golam Kibria,A. K. Yousuf Haroon,Dayanthi Nugegoda Pdf

Author : Ian Christoplos,Adam Pain
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136777608

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New Challenges to Food Security by Ian Christoplos,Adam Pain Pdf

Food security is high on the political agenda. Fears about societal insecurity due to food price increases and hunger, grave scenarios regarding the effects of climate change and general uncertainty about the impacts of investments in biofuels and so-call “land grabbing” on food prices and availability have meant that food security is now recognised as being a multifaceted challenge. This book is unique in that it will bring together analyses of these different factors that impact on food security. This volume will describe a range of different perspectives on food security, with an emphasis on the various meanings that are applied to food security “crisis”. The challenges to be reviewed include market volatility, climate change and state fragility. Analyses of responses to food security crises and risk will cover rural and urban contexts, arenas of national policy formation and global food regimes, and investment in land and productive technologies. This book is unique in two respects. First, it takes a step back from the normative literature focused on specific factors of, for example, climate change, agricultural production or market volatility to look instead at the dynamic interplay between these new challenges. It helps readers to understand that food security is not one discourse, but is rather related to how these different factors generate multiple risks and opportunities. Second, through the case studies the book particularly emphasises how these factors come together at local levels as farmers, entrepreneurs, consumers, local government officials and others are making key decisions about what will be done to address food security and whose food security will be given priority. The book will explore how food production and consumption is embedded in powerful political and market forces and how these influence local actions.

Author : Wreford Anita,Moran Dominic,Adger Neil
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264086876

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Climate Change and Agriculture Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation by Wreford Anita,Moran Dominic,Adger Neil Pdf

This report examines the economic and policy issues related to the impacts of climate change on agriculture and adaptation responses and to the mitigation of greenhouse gases from agriculture.

Author : Thomas Potthast,Simon Meisch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789086867530

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Climate change and sustainable development by Thomas Potthast,Simon Meisch Pdf

Climate change is a major framing condition for sustainable development of agriculture and food. Global food production is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time it is among the sectors worst affected by climate change. This book brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors exploring the ethical dimensions of climate change and food. Conceptual clarifications provide a necessary basis for putting sustainable development into practice. Adaptation and mitigation demand altering both agricultural and consumption practices. Intensive vs. extensive production is reassessed with regard to animal welfare, efficiency and environmental implications. Property rights pay an ever-increasing role, as do shifting land-use practices, agro-energy, biotechnology, food policy to green consumerism. And, last but not least, tools are suggested for teaching agricultural and food ethics. Notwithstanding the plurality of ethical analyses and their outcome, it becomes apparent that governance of agri-food is faced by new needs and new approaches of bringing in the value dimension much more explicitly. This book is intended to serve as a stimulating collection that will contribute to debate and reflection on the sustainable future of agriculture and food production in the face of global change.

Author : Shyam Singh Yadav,Robert J. Redden,Jerry L. Hatfield,Andreas W. Ebert,Danny Hunter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119180647

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Food Security and Climate Change by Shyam Singh Yadav,Robert J. Redden,Jerry L. Hatfield,Andreas W. Ebert,Danny Hunter Pdf

This book looks at the current state of food security and climate change, discusses the issues that are affecting them, and the actions required to ensure there will be enough food for the future. By casting a much wider net than most previously published books—to include select novel approaches, techniques, genes from crop diverse genetic resources or relatives—it shows how agriculture may still be able to triumph over the very real threat of climate change. Food Security and Climate Change integrates various challenges posed by changing climate, increasing population, sustainability in crop productivity, demand for food grains to sustain food security, and the anticipated future need for nutritious quality foods. It looks at individual factors resulting from climate change, including rising carbon emission levels, increasing temperature, disruptions in rainfall patterns, drought, and their combined impact on planting environments, crop adaptation, production, and management. The role of plant genetic resources, breeding technologies of crops, biotechnologies, and integrated farm management and agronomic good practices are included, and demonstrate the significance of food grain production in achieving food security during climate change. Food Security and Climate Change is an excellent book for researchers, scientists, students, and policy makers involved in agricultural science and technology, as well as those concerned with the effects of climate change on our environment and the food industry.

Author : Otsuka, Keijiro, ed.,Fan, Shenggen, ed.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896293830

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Agricultural development: New perspectives in a changing world by Otsuka, Keijiro, ed.,Fan, Shenggen, ed. Pdf

Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World is the first comprehensive exploration of key emerging issues facing developing-country agriculture today, from rapid urbanization to rural transformation to climate change. In this four-part volume, top experts offer the latest research in the field of agricultural development. Using new lenses to examine today’s biggest challenges, contributors address topics such as nutrition and health, gender and household decision-making, agrifood value chains, natural resource management, and political economy. The book also covers most developing regions, providing a critical global perspective at a time when many pressing challenges extend beyond national borders. Tying all this together, Agricultural Development explores policy options and strategies for developing sustainable agriculture and reducing food insecurity and malnutrition. The changing global landscape combined with new and better data, technologies, and understanding means that agriculture can and must contribute to a wider range of development outcomes than ever before, including reducing poverty, ensuring adequate nutrition, creating strong food value chains, improving environmental sustainability, and promoting gender equity and equality. Agricultural Development: New Perspectives in a Changing World, with its unprecedented breadth and scope, will be an indispensable resource for the next generation of policymakers, researchers, and students dedicated to improving agriculture for global wellbeing.

Author : Rakhi Chakraborty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031516474

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Food Production, Diversity, and Safety Under Climate Change by Rakhi Chakraborty Pdf

Author : PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.),Nathan Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1585762377

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Farming for Our Future by PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.),Nathan Rosenberg Pdf

Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is substantial--much more so than official figures suggest--and we will not be able to achieve our overall mitigation goals unless agricultural emissions sharply decline. Fortunately, farms and ranches can be a major part of the climate solution, while protecting biodiversity, strengthening rural communities, and improving the lives of the workers who cultivate our crops and rear our animals. The importance of agricultural climate solutions can not be underestimated; it is a critical element both in ensuring our food security and limiting climate change. This book provides essential solutions to address the greatest crises of our time.

Author : Charis M. Galanakis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030715717

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Environment and Climate-smart Food Production by Charis M. Galanakis Pdf

Agriculture and food systems, forestry, the marine and the bio-based sectors are at the very heart of the climate change crisis. Evidence on climate change reveals that it will affect farming first, through changes to rainfall regimes, rising temperatures, the variability and seasonality of the climate and the occurrence of more frequent extreme events (heatwaves, droughts, storms and floods). In addition to findings ways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, farmers will need to develop farming systems resilient to fluctuating environmental and socioeconomic conditions. It is thus a great challenge to support ambitious climate targets while satisfying the needs for food, feed, bio-based products and energy for a global population projected to reach 10 billion by 2030. Few books on the market integrate environment studies and climate-smart food production. This book fills the knowledge gap by covering all the relevant aspects in one reference: starting with microclimate management, climate change and food systems, and resilience of mixed farming and agroforestry systems, chapters address agricultural soil management, integrated water management in small agricultural catchments, citizen-driven food system approaches in cities, and ICT-enabled agri-food systems. By focusing on the most recent advances in the field while analyzing the potential of already applied practices, this book can serve as a handbook for regulators and researchers looking to understand all aspects of food production and distribution in this changing environment.

Author : Ariel Dinar,Robert O. Mendelsohn
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780857939869

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Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture by Ariel Dinar,Robert O. Mendelsohn Pdf

Ô. . . this book is a very useful resource for the lawyer. . . makes a good start by presenting a wide-ranging portfolio of multidisciplinary research that will assist in progressing the task, challenging though it may be.Õ Ð Chris Rodgers, Environmental Liability This book explores the interaction between climate change and the agriculture sector. Agriculture is essential to the livelihood of people and nations, especially in the developing world; therefore, any impact on it will have significant economic, social, and political ramifications. Scholars from around the world and from various fields have been brought together to explore this important topic. The contributions found here analyze direct agronomic effects, the economic impacts on agriculture, agricultural impacts on the economy, agricultural mitigation, and farmer adaptation. The authors argue that climate change is likely to have an extensive impact on agriculture around the world through changes in temperature, precipitation, concentrations of carbon dioxide, and available water flows. This thorough and timely volume is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring the impacts of climate change in arguably the most important sector of the world economy. Economists, agronomists, and climate modelers in academia and the public sector, policy analysts and development agency staff, and graduate/postgraduate students will find this remarkable volume a welcome addition to their collection.

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Ilija Djekic,Sergiy Smetana,Marina Kovaleva
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030879341

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Handbook of Climate Change Across the Food Supply Chain by Walter Leal Filho,Ilija Djekic,Sergiy Smetana,Marina Kovaleva Pdf

This book presents climate change as a global phenomenon which affects the entire food chain. Many studies analyzing environmental impacts of food systems confirm significant effects of food production on climate change. Most of them associate primary production with emission of greenhouse gasses identified as one of the causes resulting in warming the atmosphere and global climate effects. A wider perspective shows that the food chains start at farms with consumers being at the end of the pipeline. This approach emphasizes the role of the entire food chain highlighting different kinds of environmental impacts affecting climate change. On the other side, temperature changes and variations of precipitation patterns, together with extreme weather events and water reduction, are recognized as predictors for producing less food, decreased food quality, new food safety risks, biodiversity losses, and depletion of resources associated with food production in modified circumstances. Last but not least, these effects introduce new threats known as food security where some assumptions stress that almost one billion of people are hungry not receiving enough food as a result of climate changes. As a result, the UN highlights the need for combating climate change and promotes sustainable (food) consumption and production. Based on the perceived need to promote and disseminate information on climate change related to food system, the “Handbook of Climate change across the food supply chain” is being produced. The publication compiles information, experiences, practical initiatives, and projects around the subject matter and makes it available to a wide audience. It is expected that the “Handbook of Climate change across the food supply chain” makes many benefits of climate service clearer and, inter alia, leads to an increase in the demand for such important services.

Author : Toshichika Iizumi,Ryuichi Hirata,Ryo Matsuda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811392351

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Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture by Toshichika Iizumi,Ryuichi Hirata,Ryo Matsuda Pdf

This book highlights state-of-the-art research and practices for adaptation to climate change in food production systems (agriculture in particular) as observed in Japan and neighboring Asian countries. The main topics covered include the current scientific understanding of observed and projected climate change impacts on crop production and quality, modeling of autonomous and planned adaptation, and development of early warning and/or support systems for climate-related decision-making. Drawing on concrete real-world examples, the book provides readers with an essential overview of adaptation, from research to system development to practices, taking agriculture in Asia as the example. As such, it offers a valuable asset for all researchers and policymakers whose work involves adaptation planning, climate negotiations, and/or agricultural developments.

Author : Mohamed Behnassi,Margaret Syomiti Muteng'e,Gopichandran Ramachandran,Kirit N. Shelat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401789622

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Vulnerability of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries to Climate Change by Mohamed Behnassi,Margaret Syomiti Muteng'e,Gopichandran Ramachandran,Kirit N. Shelat Pdf

Human activity is changing the global environment at an unprecedented rate while humanity faces a range of complex and interrelated challenges to local, regional and global development, human security and politics. Food security ranks high on the science, policy and development agendas. However, most research linking global change and food systems examines the impact of climate change on agricultural production, or the impact of agriculture on land use, pollution and biodiversity, overlooking interactions with other aspects of the food system – such as food processing, packaging, transportation and consumption and employment derived from these activities. This book demonstrates that new threats to food security which arise from environmental change require more than simply a focus on agricultural practices – what is needed is an integrated food system approach. The authors point out that the process of adapting food systems to global environmental change is not simply a search for technological solutions to increase agricultural yields. Tradeoffs across multiple scales among food system outcomes are a prevalent feature of globalized food systems. Within food systems, there are key underexplored areas that are both sensitive to environmental change and crucial to understanding its implications for food security and adaptation strategies. The authors assert that technical prescriptions alone will not efficiently manage the food security challenge. This book is their contribution to a new paradigm, which addresses food systems holistically by engaging researchers in multiple disciplines to understand the causes and drivers of vulnerability.