Climate change impact and adaptation in agricultural systems / edited by Jürg Fuhrer, Agroscope, Zurich, and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Switzerland, Peter J. Gregory, East Malling Research, Kent, and School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK. - xii, 285 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm. - CABI climate change series ; 5 . - CABI climate change series ; 5. .

Climate projections for 2050 / Markku Rummukainen -- Rainfed intensive crop systems / Jørgen E. Olesen -- Climate sensitivity of intensive rice-wheat systems in tropical Asia: focus on the Indo-Gangetic plains / Anil Kumar Singh and Himanshu Pathak -- Climate change challenges for low input cropping and grazing systems Australia / Steven Crimp, Mark Howden, Chris Stokes, Serena Schroeter and Brian Keating -- Diversity in organic and agro-ecological farming systems for mitigation of climate change impact, with examples from Latin America / Walter A.H. Rossing, Pablo Modernel, Pablo A. Tittonell -- UK fruit and vegetable production: impacts of climate change and opportunities for adaptation / Rosemary Collier and Mark A. Else -- Intensive livestock systems for dairy cows / Robert J. Collier, Laun W. Hall, and John F. Smith -- Climate change and integrated crop-livestock systems in temperate-humid regions of North and South America: mitigation and adaptation / Alan J. Franzluebbers -- Land managed for multiple services / Richard Aspinall -- Adaptation of mixed crop-livestock systems in Asia / Fujiang Hou -- Enhancing climate resilience of cropping systems / Heidi Webber, Helena Kahiluoto, Reimund Rötter, Frank Ewert -- Shaping sustainable intensive production systems: improved crops and cropping systems in the developing world / Clare Stirling, Jon Hellin, Jill Cairns, Elan Silverblatt-Buser, Tadele Tefera, Henry Ngugi, Sika Gbegbelegbe, Kindie Tesfaye, Uran Chung, Kai Sonder, Rachael A. Cox, Nele Verhulst, Bram Govaerts, Phillip Alderman and Matthew Reynolds -- The role of modeling in adapting and building the climate resilience of cropping systems / Helena Kahiluoto, Reimund Rötter, Heidi Webber, Frank Ewert -- Agroforestry solutions for buffering climate variability and adapting to change / Meine van Noordwijk, Jules Bayala, Kurniatun Hairiah, Betha Lusiana, Catherine Muthuri, Nimatul Khasanah and Rachmat Mulia -- Channeling the future? The use of seasonal climate forecasts in climate adaptation / Lauren Rickards, Mark Howden, Steve Crimp -- Agricultural adaptation to climate change: new approaches to knowledge and learning / Julie Ingram -- What are the factors that dictate the choice of coping strategies to climate extreme events? The case of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia / Temesgen Tadesse Deressa.

9781780642895 (hbk : alk. paper)

2014011559


Crops and climate.
Climatic changes.
Agricultural systems.

S600.7.C54 / C659 2014

630.2515 FUH

S600.7.C54 / C655 2014