Climate Smart Agriculture : Building Resilience to Climate Change / edited by Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, David Zilberman, Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giacomo Branca

Contributor:

Lipper, Leslie, Editor.

McCarthy, Nancy, Editor.

Zilberman, David., Editor.

Asfaw, Solomon, Editor.

Branca, Giacomo, Editor.

Series:

Natural Resource Management and Policy, 0929-127X ; 52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Agriculture.

Economic policy.

Agricultural Economics.

R & D/Technology Policy.

Economic Policy.

Local Subjects:

Agricultural Economics.

R & D/Technology Policy.

Economic Policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVIII, 630 p. 107 illus., 97 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates

Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture

Chapter 4: Innovation in Response to Climate Change

Chapter 5: Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Decision of Crop Yield Prediction, River Discharge and Planning

Chapter 6: Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDE

Chapter 7 : Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia: The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam

Chapter 8: U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts

Chapter 9: Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts: An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Argiculture

Chapter 10: Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity?: Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa

Chapter 11: Can Cash Transfer Programs Promote Household Resilience?: Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 12: Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture

Chapter 13: Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria

Chapter 14: Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems

Chapter 15: Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate

Chapter 16: The Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Information and Insurance under Climate Change

Chapter 17: A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries

Chapter 18: Identifying Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence of Zambia

Chapter 19: Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 20: Improving the Resilience of Central Asian Agriculture to Weather Viability and Climate Change

Chapter 21: Managing Environmental Risk in the Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaption in the Mile Basin of Ethiopia

Chapter 22: Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi

Chapter 23: Economic Analysis of Improved Smallholder Paddy and Maize Production in Northern Vietnam and Implications for Climate-Smart Agriculture

Chapter 24: Synthesis: Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA

Chapter 25: Conclusions and Policy Implications.

Notes:

CC BY-SA

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9783319611945

3319611941

OCLC:

1028661801

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access