AuthorDas, Haripada P., author
TitleClimate change and agriculture : Implications for global food security / H.P. Das
ImprintHyderabad, India : BS Publications for CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2016]
Descript xxix, 612 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

CONTENT

Perspectives on the interactions between climate change parameters and their agricultural significance: An overview -- Impact of climate change on the global hydrological cycle: Implications for water resources and agriculture -- Soil carbon cycle and impact of climate change on soil conditions: Implications for plant growth and food production -- Global climate change impact on agricultural and livestock production and adaptation strategies for mitigation -- Greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation measures in agro-ecosystems -- Land degradtion, range degradation and desertification under changing climate -- Impact of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture and adaptation strategies -- Climate change impact on forests and adaptation strategies -- climate change, food and agriculture system, and global food security -- Climate change, climate variability and climate extremes: Agrometeorological impact of extreme weather events -- Livelihood strategies of farmers and fishers under changing climate


SUBJECT

  1. Crops and climate
  2. Forests and forestry -- Climatic factors
  3. Fisheries -- Climatic factors
  4. Climatic changes
  5. Food security

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