This book looks at the current state of food security and climate change, discusses the issues that are affecting them, and the actions required to ensure there will be enough food for the future. By casting a much wider net than most previously published books–to include select novel approaches, techniques, genes from crop diverse genetic resources or relatives–it shows how agriculture may still be able to triumph over the very real threat of climate change.
Food Security and Climate Change integrates various challenges posed by changing climate, increasing population, sustainability in crop productivity, demand for food grains to sustain food security, and the anticipated future need for nutritious quality foods. It looks at individual factors resulting from climate change, including rising carbon emission levels, increasing temperature, disruptions in rainfall patterns, drought, and their combined impact on planting environments, crop adaptation, production, and management. The role of plant genetic resources, breeding technologies of crops, biotechnologies, and integrated farm management and agronomic good practices are included, and demonstrate the significance of food grain production in achieving food security during climate change.
Food Security and Climate Change is an excellent book for researchers, scientists, students, and policy makers involved in agricultural science and technology, as well as those concerned with the effects of climate change on our environment and the food industry.
Table of Content
Chapter 1. Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Shyam S. Yadav, V. S. Hegde, Abdul Basir Habibi, Mahindra Dia and Suman verma
Chapter 02. Changes in Food Supply and Demand by 2050
Timothy S. Thomas
Chapter 03. Crop Responses to Rising Atmospheric [CO2] and Global Climate Change
Pauline Lemonnierand Elizabeth A. Ainsworth
Chapter 04: Adaptation of cropping systems to drought under Climate Change (Examples from Australia and Spain)
Garry J. O’Leary , James G. Nuttall , Robert J. Redden , Carlos Cantero-Martinez , M. Inés Mínguez
Chapter 05: Combined Impacts of Carbon, Temperature, and Drought to Sustain Food Production
Jerry L. Hatfield
Chapter 06: Scope, Options and Approaches to Climate Change
S. Seneweera Kiruba Shankari Arun-Chinnappa, Naoki Hirotsu
Chapter 07. Mitigation and Adaptation Approaches to Sustain Food Security under Climate Change
Li Ling and Zong
Chapter 08. Role of Plant Breeding to Sustain Food Security under Climate Change
Prof. Rodomiro Ortiz
Chapter 09. Role of plant genetic resources in food security
Robert John Redden, Hari Upadyaya, Sangam L Dwivedi, Vincent Vadez, Michael Abberton, Ahmed Amri
Chapter 10: Breeding New Generation Genotypes for Conservation Agriculture in Maize-Wheat Cropping Systems under Climate Change
Rajbir Yadav, Kiran Gaikwad, Ranjan Bhattacharyya, Naresh Kumar Bainsla, Manjeet Kumar and Shyam S Yadav
Chapter 11 : Pests and diseases under climate change; its threat to food security.
Piotr Trebicki, Nilsa Bosque-Perez and Kyla Finlay
Chapter 12: Crop Production Management to Climate Change
Sain Dass, S L Jat, Chikkappa G K, and Parihar C M
Chapter 13. Vegetable Genetic Resources for Food and Nutrition Security under Climate Change
Andreas W. Ebert
Chapter 14. Sustainable Vegetable Production to Sustain Food Security under Climate Change at Global Level
Andreas W. Ebert, Thomas Dubois, Abdou Tenkouano, Ravza Mavlyanova, Jaw-Fen Wang, Bindumadhava Hanumantha Rao, Srinivasan Ramasamy, Sanjeet Kumar, Fenton D. Beed, Marti Pottorff, Wuu-Yang Chen, Ramakrishnan M. Nair, Harsh Nayyar, J.J. Riley
Chapter 15 : Sustainable Production of Roots & Tuber Crops for Food Security under Climate Change
Taylor M, Lebot V and Mc Gregor
Chapter 16. The Roles of Biotechnology in Agriculture to Sustain Food Security under Climate Change
Rebecca Ford, Yasir Mehmood, Usana Nantawan, and Chutchamas Kanchana-Udomkan
Chapter 17. Application of Biotechnologies in the Conservation and Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food Security
Toshiro Shigaki
Chapter 18 . Climate Change Influence on Herbicide Efficacy and Weed Management
Mithila Jugulam, Aruna K Varanasi, Vijaya K. Varanasi, and P.V.V. Prasad
Chapter 19. Farmers’ knowledge and adaptation to climate change to ensure food security
Lois Wright Morton
Chapter 20: Farmer and Community-led Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation of Agriculture Using Agricultural Biodiversity and Genetic Resources
A. G. Tony Mc Donald, Jessica Sokolow and Danny Hunter
Chapter 21- Accessing Genetic Diversity for Food Security & Climate Change Adaptation in select communities in Africa
Otieno Gloria
About the author
About the Editors
SHYAM S. YADAV, Freelance International Consultant in Agriculture, Manav Memorial Trust/ Manav Foundation, Vikaspuri, New Delhi, India and Manav Mahal International School, Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, India.
ROBERT J. REDDEN, RJR Agricultural Consultants, Horsham, Victoria, Australia.
JERRY L. HATFIELD, USDA-ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, Iowa, USA.
ANDREAS W. EBERT, Freelance International Consultant in Agriculture and Agrobiodiversity, Schwaebisch Gmuend, Germany.
DANNY HUNTER, Senior Scientist, Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, Bioversity International, Rome, Italy and Adjunct Researcher, Plant and Agricultural Biosciences Centre (PABC), National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG).
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