Global Climate Change and Environmental Policy: Agriculture Perspectives

✍ Scribed by V. Venkatramanan, Shachi Shah, Ram Prasad

• Publisher: Springer Singapore
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 441
• Edition: 1st ed. 2020
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Global climate change threatens human existence through its potential impact on agriculture and the environment. Agriculture is climate-sensitive, and climate variability and climate change have net negative impact on it. Additionally, the agricultural landscape is affected by monoculture and agro-biodiversity loss, soil fertility depletion and soil loss, competition from biofuel production, crop yield plateaus and invasive species. Nevertheless, the global agricultural production system has to meet the food demands from the growing human population, which is set to exceed 10 billion by 2050.

This book discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture, animal husbandry and rural livelihoods. Further, since agriculture, forestry and other land-use sectors contribute about 10–12 gigatonnes of CO₂-equivalent per year, it argues that agricultural policy must dovetail adaptation and mitigation strategies to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. This calls for a reformative and disruptive agricultural strategy like climate-smart agriculture, which can operate at all spatio-temporal scales with few modifications. The book also redefines sustainable agriculture through the lens of climate-smart agriculture in the context of the sustainability of Earth's life- support system and inter- and intra-generational equity. The climate-smart agriculture approach is gaining currency thanks to its inherent positive potential, and its goal to establish an agricultural system which includes "climate-smart food systems", "climate-proof farms", and "climate-smart soils". Climate-smart agriculture provides a pathway to achieve sustainable development goals which focus on poverty reduction, food security, and environmental health.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Ecological Thinking and Agricultural Sustainability (Anantanarayanan Raman)....Pages 1-35
Climate Policy (T. N Balasubramanian, A. Nambi Appadurai)....Pages 37-54
Vulnerability Assessment of the Agro-Based Households to Climate Change in the Bundelkhand Region and Suggesting Adaptation Strategies (Meeta Gupta, Jyoti P. Patil, V. C. Goyal)....Pages 55-123
Strategies for Scaling Up the Adoption of Organic Farming Towards Building Climate Change Resilient Communities (Teodoro C. Mendoza, Roselyn Furoc-Paelmo, Hazel Anne Makahiya, Bernadette C. Mendoza)....Pages 125-146
Managing Climate Risk in a Major Coffee-Growing Region of Indonesia (Rizaldi Boer, Syamsu Dwi Jadmiko, Purnama Hidayat, Ade Wachjar, Muhammad Ardiansyah, Dewi Sulistyowati et al.)....Pages 147-205
Global Climate Change and Biofuels Policy: Indian Perspectives (Shiv Prasad, Sandeep Kumar, K. R. Sheetal, V. Venkatramanan)....Pages 207-226
Climate Change, Water Resources, and Agriculture: Impacts and Adaptation Measures (Durba Kashyap, Tripti Agarwal)....Pages 227-256
Mitigating Enteric Methane Emission from Livestock Through Farmer-Friendly Practices (C. Valli)....Pages 257-273
Timber-Based Mixed Farming/Agroforestry Benefits: A Case Study of Smallholder Farmers in Limpopo Province, South Africa (Phokele Maponya, Sonja L. Venter, Christiaan Philippus Du Plooy, Gerhard R. Backeberg, Sylvester Mpandeli, Edward Nesamvuni)....Pages 275-302
Agriculture, Landscape and Food Value Chain Transformation as Key Engines in Climate Change Mitigation: A Review of Some Low-Carbon Policy Options and Implementation Mechanisms (Louis Bockel, Laure Sophie Schiettecatte)....Pages 303-327
Weather Based Automated Agro Advisories: An Option to Improve Sustainability in Farming Under Climate and Weather Vagaries (Ga. Dheebakaran, S. Panneerselvam, V. Geethalakshmi, S. Kokilavani)....Pages 329-349
Climate-Smart Agriculture: Assessment and Adaptation Strategies in Changing Climate (Muhammad Arif, Talha Jan, Hassan Munir, Fahd Rasul, Muhammad Riaz, Shah Fahad et al.)....Pages 351-377
Climate Change and Farmers’ Adaptation: Extension and Capacity Building of Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa (Urban B. Kalimba, Richard J. Culas)....Pages 379-410
Climate Change and Gender Policy (Rashila Deshar, Madan Koirala)....Pages 411-422
Climate Change and Agriculture: A Review of Crop Models (S. Mulla, Sudhir Kumar Singh, K. K. Singh, Bushra Praveen)....Pages 423-435

✦ Subjects

Environment; Climate Change; Sustainable Development; Agriculture; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Environmental Health