Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems Climate change Series, Vol. 5

The focus of this book is future global climate change and its implications for agricultural systems which are the main sources of agricultural goods and services provided to society. These systems are either based on crop or livestock production, or on combinations of the two, with characteristics that differ be-tween regions and between levels of management intensity. In turn, they also differ in their sensitivity to projected future changes in climate, and improvements to increase climate-resilience need to be tailored to the specific needs of each system. The book will bring together a series of chapters that provide scientific insights to possible implications of projected climate changes for different important types of crop and livestock systems, and a discussion of options for adaptive and mitigative management.

Introduction

1 Climate projections for 2050

2 Rainfed Intensive Crop Systems

3 Climate Sensitivity of Intensive Rice-Wheat Systems in Tropical Asia: Focus on the Indo-Gangetic Plains

4 Climate Change Challenges for Low Input Cropping and Grazing Systems – Australia

5 Diversity in Organic and Agro-ecological Farming Systems for Mitigation of Climate Change Impact, with Examples from Latin America

6 UK Fruit and Vegetable Production – Impacts of Climate Change and Opportunities for Adaptation

7 Intensive Livestock Systems for Dairy Cows

8 Climate Change and Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems in Temperate-Humid Regions of North and South America: Mitigation and Adaptation

9 Land Managed for Multiple Services

10 Adaptation of Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Asia

11 Enhancing Climate Resilience of Cropping Systems

12 Shaping Sustainable Intensive Production Systems: Improved Crops and Cropping Systems in the Developing World

13 The role of modeling in adapting and building the climate resilience of cropping systems

14 Agroforestry Solutions for Buffering Climate Variability and Adapting to Change

15 Channeling the future? The use of seasonal climate forecasts in climate adaptation

16 Agricultural adaptation to climate change: new approaches to knowledge and learning

17 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