Sustainable Agriculture for Climate Change Adaptation

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: adaptation measures; agriculture; agriculture production; anaerobic digestion; APSIM; atmospheric phytoremediation; Bangladesh; bioenergy; biogas; Biology, life sciences; CanESM2; chill accumulation; clean energy; climate adaptation; climate change; climate change adaptation; climate change impacts; climate change-induced impacts; climate-departure; climate-smart agriculture; CO2 fertilization; CORDEX; corn; cost distribution; crop breeding; crop model; crop suitability; crop-climate departure; drought-prone low lands; Ecocrop; El Niño; ENSO; environment type; extreme value theory; extreme weather; farmer acceptance; fertilizer; food security; future crop yields; geographic information; Georgia; GHG; greenhouse gas emissions; Guatemala; HadCM3; hydroclimatic hazard; incentive measures; income distribution; industrial hemp; inland valley development; La Niña; life cycle assessment; livelihood transformation; livelihoods; management practices; Mathematics and Science; mitigation techniques; n/a; N2O; N2OR; nitrous oxide reductase; nosZ; peaches; perennial crops; planting month; precipitation; radiative warming; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; renewable energy technologies; Research and information: general; resilience; return level; rice; rice field; risk; rural Sidama; smallholder farmers; SOI; soil water; South Carolina; southern Ethiopia; Southern Oscillation Index; soybeans; sustainability; sustainable rice production; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; temperature; transgenic; vulnerable region; water control structure; weather; West Africa; winter wheat yield
• ISBN: 3039363824; 9783039363827; 9783039363834; 3039363832
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03936-383-4

The Anthropocene, the time of humans. Never has human influence on the functioning of the planet been greater or in more urgent need of mitigation. Climate change, the accelerated warming of the planet’s surface attributed to human activities, is now at the forefront of global politics. The agriculture sector not only contributes to climate change but also feels the severity of its effects, with the water, carbon and nitrogen cycles all subject to modification as a result. Crop production systems are each subject to different types of threat and levels of threat intensity. There is however significant potential to both adapt to and mitigate climate change within the agricultural sector and reduce these threats. Each solution must be implemented in a sustainable manner and tailored to individual regions and farming systems. This Special Issue evaluates a variety of potential climate change adaptation and mitigation techniques that account for this spatial variation, including modification to cropping systems, Climate-Smart Agriculture and the development and growth of novel crops and crop varieties.