"Our climate is continuously heating up and the impacts of global warming (GW) and green house gas (GHG) grow more frequent and severe. Consequently, farmers and agroecosystems around the world started to become increasingly challenged. Climate change will cause more flooding in many regions of the world, severe drought in other regions; will affect crop and livestock viability, and also new pests, pathogens, and weed problems. Therefore, agriculture is required to shift to a more sustainable and resilient system to cope with these changes, mitigate impacts caused by these changes, and feed the growing population. This book will look at how to develop sustainable agriculture in its broad and targeted sense under the conditions of a changing climate. It will cover different disciplines attracting interests from the scientific community involved in the development of sustainable agroecosystems and cropping systems, and detail how to improve the resilience of cultivated crops and cropping systems to the adverse conditions of the climate, such as drought, raising carbon dioxide, global warming and many other secondary effects such as soils fertility depletion, uncommon disease and pests. This book will report on agricultural practices and agroecosystems and how they will cope with the changing climate; the modification and enhancement of crop production practices to harnessing the potential changes caused by the changing climate and mitigate its impacts on the agroecosystems and crops production"--
Climate Change and Agriculture Authoritative and comprehensive resource covering climate-smart agriculture with key insights into its implementation
Climate Change and Agriculture provides a complete overview of the development of sustainable agroecosystems and cropping systems and details how to improve the resilience of cultivated crops and cropping systems to the adverse conditions of the climate, such as drought, increasing levels of carbon dioxide, global warming, and many other secondary effects such as soils fertility depletion, uncommon disease, and pests. Additionally, the text suggests different agricultural practices to face the severity of frequency of the natural events.
Climate Change and Agriculture also delves into the different climate-resilient methods and climate-smarter agriculture (CSA) for food production by building healthier soils through different sustainable practices, redesigning diverse agroecosystems, and developing new crop varieties, livestock breeds, and farm practices. Insight into how modern technology has affected the field, and how it may affect the field in the future, is included.
Other topics discussed in Climate Change and Agriculture include:
- Climate change and agriculture (state of the art, challenges, and perspectives), plus studies on crop yields and their extreme value analysis over India
- Symbiosis for food security and sustainability in changing climate and emerging issues related to conservation agriculture in Africa
- The role of periurban agriculture in sustainability and climate change, with additional information on nutrient management in agro-ecosystems
- Soil fertility management and biofertilization in changing climate and biochar mitigating abiotic stress-induced damages under changing climate
For academics and students; seed, fertilizer, and chemical producers; farmers and farming communities; and policy makers, Climate Change and Agriculture contains invaluable insights into the subject that are helpful in understanding the current state of the field and preparing for potential future developments.
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1
Climate change and Agriculture: State of the Art, Challenges, and
Perspectives
Imran, Noureddine Benkeblia, Amanullah, and Abdel Rehman Altawaha
Chapter 2
Climate-Smart Plants Combat Climate Change and Liable for Food Security
Imran, Amanullah, and Abdel- Rehman Altawaha
Chapter 3
Adapting Crops to Climate Change
Abdel Rahman M.S. Al-Tawaaha, Samia Khanum, Noureddine Benkeblia, Amanullah,
Imran, Shah Khaled, Abdel Razzaq Al- Tawaha, Mousumi Mondal, Nidal Odat,
Abhijit Dey, Nujoud Alimad, Devarajan Thangadurai, Jeyabalan Sangeetha ,
Saher Islam, and Mohammad Shatnawi
Chapter 4
Role of Biotechnology in Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Abdel Rahman M.S. Al-Tawaaha, Rachid Mrabet, Mina Bayanati, Banothu
Santhosh, Noureddine Benkeblia, Imran, Amanullah, Shah Khaled, Abdel Razzaq
Al- Tawaha, Hiba Alatrash, Yaman Jabbour, Abhijit Dey, Devarajan Thangadurai,
Jeyabalan Sangeetha and Saher Islam
Chapter 5
Breeding Crops for Tolerance to Salinity, Heat and Drought
Abdel Rahman M.S. Al-Tawaha*, Nidal Odat, Noureddine Benkeblia, Naila
Kerkoub, ZinebLabidi, Mahyeddine Boumendjel,Hichem Nasri,Imran, Amanullah,
Shah Khaled, Abdel Razzaq Al- Tawaha, Mina Bayanati, Hiba Alatrash, Abhijit
Dey, Devarajan Thangadurai, Jeyabalan Sangeethaand Saher Islam
Chapter 6
Innovative approaches in breeding of climate-resilient crops
Sandra Cveji, Sinia Joci, Goran Bekavac, Milan Mirosavljevi, Ana
Marjanovi Jeromela, Miroslav Zori, Aleksandra Radanovi, Ankica
Kondi-pika, Dragana Miladinovi
Chapter 7
Challenges of Soil Fertility under Changing Climate and its opposing
components
Imran, Amanullah, Ibrahim Ortas, Tariq Mahmood, Muhammad Arif, Abdel- Rehman
Altawaha and Mohammad Ilyas
Chapter 8
The declining trend of Soil Fertility with Climate Change and its solution
Imran, Amanullah and Ibrahim Ortas
Chapter 9
Nano-Black Carbon is an Organic Tool for the Alleviation of Abiotic Stresses
and its Certain Damages under Changing Climate
Imran, Amanullah, Muhammad Arif, Abdel-Rehman Altawaha, and Tariq Mahmood
Chapter 10
Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Non-Legume Plant and Changing Climate
Abdel Rahman M.S. Al Tawaaha, Pratibha Vyas, Arun Karnwalc Noureddine
Benkeblia, Swapnil Ganesh Sanmukh, Eduard Torrents Serra, Imran, Amanullah,
Shah Khaled, Abdel Razzaq Al- Tawaha, Abhijit Dey, Nujoud Alimad, , Devarajan
Thangadurai, Jeyabalan Sangeetha, Saher Islam, Mohammad Shatnawi,
Chapter 11
Role of Phosphorus in Imparting Abiotic Stress Tolerance to Plants
Bhaswati Baroowa, Sreyashi Paul and Nirmali Gogoi
Chapter 12
Climate Change and Cereal Production
Abdel Rahman M.S. Al-Tawaha, Javeid Ahmed Dar, Amreena Sultan, Noureddine
Benkeblia, Amanullah, Imran, Shah Khaled, Abdel Razzaq Al- Tawaha, Nidal
Odat, Hiba Alatrash
Chapter 13
Impact of climate change on tea cultivation and adaptation strategies:
Special emphasis on tea pests in North East India
Azariah Babu, Somnath Roy, Rupanjali Deb Baruah, Bhabesh Deka, Kamruza Z.
Ahmed , Sourajit Bayen and Suman Sarkar
Chapter 14
Impact of Climate Change on Integrated Pest Management Strategies
Sonja Gvozdenac, Boko Dedi, Sanja Miki, Jelena Ovuka, Dragana
Miladinovi
Chapter 15
Climate Change and its Effects on Plant Viruses
Aarshi Srivastava, Vineeta Pandey and R.K.Gaur
Chapter 16
Green chemistry in sustainable use of agrowaste
Pratibha Deka, Mayuree Gohain, Nilutpal Bhuyan, Nirmali Gogoi, Rupam
Kataki2
Chapter 17
Assessing Satellite-Based Products in Characterizing Agricultural Drought
Under Climate Change in Northeast Brazil
Franklin Paredes-Trejo, Humberto Alves Barbosa, Jason Giovannettone, T.V.
Lakshmi Kumar, Manoj Kumar Thakur, Catarina de Oliveira Buriti and José
Prieto
Chapter 18
Understanding smallholder farmers perceptions of and adaptations to climate
change: The case of the Zambezi region, Namibia.
Lee-Ann Steenkamp and Winnie Thebuho
Index
Noureddine Benkeblia, The University of the West Indies Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica. Noureddine has more than thirty years experience in teaching and research, focusing on agricultural science and related disciplines, including climate change and crop science.
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