Author: Fakhri A. Bazzaz
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251039878
Category : Agricultural ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Fakhri Bazzaz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Issues covered in this book include the CO2 antitranspiration effect, and the adverse effects of elevated levels of UV-B radiation and ozone on plant growth, productivity and livestock. The book looks at the impact from a global perspective.

Author: K. R. Reddy
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851997094
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Annotation. Worldwide climatic changes have been raising concerns about potential changes to crop yields and production systems. Such concerns include the ability to accommodate these uncertain effects in order to ensure an adequate food supply for an increasing population. Written by leadinginternational experts, this book is the first comprehensive examination of the potential effects climate change, particularly green house gases, will have on agroecosystems. It also reviews the effects such systems have on climate change itself.

Author: Otto C. Doering III
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461509696
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Effects of Climate Change and Viarability on the Agricultural Production Systems provides an integrated assessment of global climate change's impact on agriculture at the farm level, in the context of farm level adaptation decisions. Ten agricultural areas in the Upper Midwest region - the heart of the United States' corn belt - were subjected to climate change and changing climate variability scenarios through simulations of future climate using results from general circulation models. Crop growth models, calibrated to the study sites, were used to simulate yields under varying climate conditions. Farm level production and economic analyses were performed to determine what adaptation strategies might be best utilized to maintain production and profitability for producers under conditions of global climate change and changing climate variability. Similar integrated analyses from Australia and Argentina provide comparisons from different regions.

Author: Matthew P. Reynolds
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845936345
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Trends in population growth suggest that global food production is unlikely to satisfy future demand under predicted climate change scenarios unless rates of crop improvement are accelerated. This book provides an overview of the essential disciplines required for sustainable crop production in unpredictable environments.

Author: Krishna Kumar Choudhary
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 0128175222
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems explains the causative factors of climate change related to agriculture, soil and plants, and discusses the relevant resulting mitigation process. Agricultural ecosystems include factors from the surrounding areas where agriculture experiences direct or indirect interaction with the plants, animals, and microbes present. Changes in climatic conditions influence all the factors of agricultural ecosystems, which can potentially adversely affect their productivity. This book summarizes the different aspects of vulnerability, adaptation, and amelioration of climate change in respect to plants, crops, soil, and microbes for the sustainability of the agricultural sector and, ultimately, food security for the future. It also focuses on the utilization of information technology for the sustainability of the agricultural sector along with the capacity and adaptability of agricultural societies under climate change. Climate Change and Agricultural Ecosystems incorporates both theoretical and practical aspects, and serves as base line information for future research. This book is a valuable resource for those working in environmental sciences, soil sciences, agricultural microbiology, plant pathology, and agronomy. Covers the role of chemicals fertilizers, environmental deposition, and xenobiotics in climate change Discusses the impact of climate change on plants, soil, microflora, and agricultural ecosystems Explores the mitigation of climate change by sustainable methods Presents the role of computational modelling in climate change mitigation

Author: Ariel Dinar
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 0857939866
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 532

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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: William R Cline
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0881324809
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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How will global warming affect developing countries, which rely heavily on agriculture as a source of economic growth? William Cline asserts that developing countries have more at risk, such as their production capacity, than industrial countries as global warming worsens. Using general circulation models, Cline boldly examines 2071–99 to forecast the effects of global warming and its economic impact into the next decade. This detailed study outlines existing studies on climate change; Cline finds the Stern Report for the UK government's estimates most reliable; estimates projected changes in temperature, precipitation, and agricultural capacity; and concludes with policy recommendations. Cline finds that agricultural production in developing countries may fall an average of 16 percent, and if global warming progresses at its current rate, India's agricultural capacity could fall as much as 40 percent. Thus, policymakers should address this phenomenon now before the world's developing countries are adversely and irreversibly affected.

Author: Fakhri A. Bazzaz
Publisher: Daya Books
ISBN: 9788170353928
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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This book reports on the results of experiments to assess the effects of global climate change on the agricultural production of crops and livestock. It covers issues such as the CO2 fertilization effect, the adverse effects of elevated levels of UV-B radiation and ozone on plant growth and productivity, and on livestock. Combined effects are also studied, including changing CO2, temperature, and UV-B radiation and O3 simultaneously on crop growth. The concluding chapters give an idea of the overall global picture in terms of the effects already discussed. Changes in the world hydrological cycle, the regional availability of water resources, changes in soil conditions and the impact of this on food production, as well as modelling techniques, are all examined. Contents Chapter 1: The Climate Change: Agriculture Conundrum by W G Sombroek and R Gommes; Chapter 2: The Effects of Changes in the World Hydrological Cycle on Availability of Water Resources by T E Evans; Chapter 3: The Effects of Global Change on Soil Conditions in Relation to Plant Growth and Food Production by R Brinkman and W G Sombroek ; Chapter 4: The CO2 Fertilization Effect: Higher Carbohydrate Production and Retention as Biomass and Seed Yield by L H Allen Jr, J T Baker and K J Boote; Chapter 5: The Effects of Elevated CO2 and Temperature Change on Transpiration and Crop Water Use by S C Van de Geijn and J Gourdriaan; Chapter 6: Effects of Higher Day and Night Temperatures on Growth and Yields of Some Crop Plants by Y P Abrol and K T Ingram; Chapter 7: Adverse Effects of Elevated Levels of Ultraviolet (UV)-B Radiation and Ozone (O3) on Crop Growth and Productivity by S V Krupa and H Jager; Chapter 8: Combined Effects of Changing CO2, Temperature, UV-B Radiation and O3 on Crop Growth by M H Unsworth and W E Hogsett; Chapter 9: The Potential Effects of Climate Change on World Food Production and Security by G Fischer, K Frohberg, M L Parry and C Rosenzweig; Chapter 10: Climate Change, Global Agriculture and Regional Vulnerability by J Reilly; Chapter 11: Integrating Land-use Change and Evaluating Feedbacks in Global Change Models: The IMAGE 2 Approach by R Leemans, G J Van den Bornand L Bouwman; Chapter 12: Global Change Impacts on Agriculture, Forestry and Soils: The Programme of the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystem Core Project of IGBP by B Tinker, J Goudriaan, P Teng, M Swift, S Linder, J Ingram and S Van de Geijn; Chapter 13: Global Climate Change and Agricultural Production: An Assessment of Current Knowledge and Critical Gaps by F A Bazzaz and W G Sombroek.

Author: Golam Kibria
Publisher: New India Publishing
ISBN: 9789381450512
Category : Agricultural productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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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: