Climate Change and Sustainable Agro-ecology in Global Drylands (eBook)

Adel El-Beltagy, Rattan Lal, Kauser Abdulla Malik (Herausgeber)

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2024
384 Seiten
CABI (Verlag)
978-1-80062-487-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines sustainable management of drylands to make agriculture drought resilient, with eminent scientists from around the world sharing their knowledge and experiences for adaptation and mitigation of the anthropogenic climate change through innovation in sustainable management of water, soil, crops, livestock and fisheries.

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Drylands, a home for nearly 2.5 billion people, are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change, and dryland area may expand to 50% of the Earth's surface by 2100. Climate change may aggravate the prevalence of undernutrition and malnutrition because of adverse effects on quantity and quality of food production in these regions. This book takes a holistic approach to sustainable management of drylands to make agriculture drought-resilient. Eminent scientists from around the world share their knowledge and experiences for adaptation and mitigation of the anthropogenic climate change through innovation in sustainable management of water, soil, crops, livestock, and fisheries. They anticipate that climate change will have major impacts on agro- ecosystems which requires continuous dynamic assessments, globally, regionally, and at the local level where the major action of adaptation would have to occur. The assessment will require international cooperation and national capacity-building. This book emphasizes approaches such as smart and precision agriculture, conservation agriculture, and new innovation and technology as tools for adaptation and mitigation. Several chapters are devoted to the human dimensions and policy considerations with emphasis on enhancing coping and adaptive capacity. This book addresses the picture after COP27, including loss and damage, governance and finance.
This book:

Examines sustainable management for drylands as a solution to environmental and food security issues.
Uses a holistic approach to evaluate sustainable management of drylands.
Explains how researchers are translating science into action for greening global drylands.

This work will be valuable to students and researchers in agroecology, climate change science and dryland agriculture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2024
• Reihe/Serie: CABI Climate Change Series
• Co-Autor: Adel El-Beltagy, Rattan Lal, Ismael Serageldin, Sharon Mijares, Dena Merriam, Aliaa R. Rafea, Magdy Madkour, Ayman Abou Hadid, Kauser Abdulla Malik, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Syed Aftab Wajid, Hai-Lin Zhang, Bai-Jian Lin, Yu-Xin Wei, Zhe Chen, Olatunde Pelumi Oladele, Jian-Fu Xue, Xing Wang, Wei BAI, Ren-hua Sun, Xin Zhao, C. Srinivasa Rao, Rajbir Singh, V. Padmaja-Karanam, Charles Kennel, Jim Falk, Raj S. Paroda, Anuradha Agrawal, Krishi Anusandhan Bhavan, Kuldeep Tripathi, Theib Y. Oweis, Abdelghani El-Gindy, Abdelaziz Sheta, Meryl Williams, Adel Aboulnaga, Mohamed Youssef, Hafez Ghanem, Simeon Ehui, Steven Were Omamo, Chakib Jenane, Mario Allegri, João Carlos de Moraes Sá, Rajan Ghimire, Prakriti Bista, Juan Andrés Quincke, Michael Baum, Vinay Nangia
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • Carbon Farming • Desertification and Degradation • Drought stress • Dryland agriculture • Enhancing Coping and Adaptive Capacity • Farming Systems • finance. • food security • Mitigation • Optimization of Water Use • Policy interventions • Smart and Precision Agriculture • Soil and water conservation • Sustainable Intensification • Sustainable Management
• ISBN-10: 1-80062-487-5 / 1800624875
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80062-487-0 / 9781800624870