Climate Change and Agriculture : Emerging Scenarios and Adaptation Strategies
Contents: Preface. 1. Greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural fields making agriculture truly environment friendly/A.K. Misra, Venkatesh Bharadwaj and Akansha Rastogi. 2. Impact of climate change on agriculture: adopting some adaptation measures/Harsh Vardhan Puranik and Atul Kumar Gupta. 3. Climate change and its impact on productivity of rice and wheat: a case of Tarai Area of Uttarakhand/H.S. Kushwaha, Manisha Rani, Amod Kumar and Menka Mehra. 4. Climate change agriculture interrelationships: issues facing rural India/Arpita Sharma. 5. Impact of climatic variability on rice and wheat productivity: experiences from Meerut District of Western Uttar Pradesh/U.P. Shahi, Ashok Kumar, B.P. Dhyani, R.K. Naresh, Deepak Sisodia and A.K. Chaubey. 6. Factors for climate change: efforts to overcome global warming impact on agricultural production system and livelihood/Lal Singh, Parmeet Singh, B.A. Khanday and Subhash Chand. 7. Effect of High Diurnal temperature on pollen and spikelet sterility of basmati and non basmati rice varieties: agriculture as a climate sensitive sector/V. Venkatramanan, S.D. Singh and Shachi Shah. 8. Climate change and its potential effects on tree line position: impending threats of increasing temperature/Nisar Bhat. 9. Global Climate change and its impact on livestock production : a threat to livestock dependent economies/Ali Seid Mohammed and Kon Daniel Awan. 10. Contribution of livestock to global warming: a focus on mitigation strategies/Lipismita Samal and Chinmoy Mishra. 11. Global warming climate change and burning problems: livestock not to the blame/Alok Kumar, Akanksha Rastogi, Vivek pal and Ambrish Kumar. 12. Bed planting system promotes crop diversification for improving livelihoods in Indo-Gangetic plains/R.K. Naresh, B. Singh, Ashok Kumar and U.P. Shahi. 13. Climate change as a multiplier of food security risks/Poonam Khurana. 14. Food production in peril: concerns and challenges of global warming/Kush Kalra. 15. Climate change: impact on forest cover in India/Atul Dubey. 16. Estimation of salinity areas through visual interpretation in parts of South West Punjab using remote sensing and GIS/Avadhesh Kumar Koshal. 17. Growth photopsynthesis Nodule nitrogen and carbon fixation in Berseem Trifolium Alexandrinum L. genotypes under salinity stress/Deepak Kumar, Depika and P.K. Singh. 18. Adaptation capabilities of mountain agriculture: a response to global warming/Vir Singh and B.S. Bisht. 19. Agricultures potential to combat climate change: a review of the evidence/Kavita Tariyal and Uma Melkania. 20. The Himalaya Rangelands: basis for ecological food and livelihood security/Vir Singh, Nanda Nautiyal and J.C. Badola.
Climate change is looming large on the globe and has become a major issue of our concern. This situation of the global environment poses threat at several fronts. Agriculture which is closely linked with weather cycle is one of such fronts. All agricultural operations are designed in tune with climate pattern. Even a slight fluctuation in any critical environmental factor such as temperature may cause irreversible damage to agricultural performance. The present book underlines such concerns about current status our environment and agriculture. Edited by prominent scholars of the first and the largest agricultural university of India the book collates the perspective and research based articles portraying agriculture scenarios under the spell of on going climate change and offering adaptation strategies to overcome current and perceived problems. Containing 20 chapters the book discusses impact of the changing climate on agriculture and of agriculture on environment climate change influence on productivity of crops effect of high diurnal temperature on pollen and spikelet sterility climate change effects on forests and forestry and livestock livestock\'s contribution to global warming etc. The book also attempts to underline various strategies for reducing agricultures vulnerability to climate change and for adaptation to on going climate change. The book will be useful for agriculturists climate change specialists environmentalists policy makers and research scholars engaged in research on climate agriculture related issues.
Climate change is looming large on the globe and has become a major issue of our concern. This situation of the global environment poses threat at several fronts. Agriculture which is closely linked with weather cycle is one of such fronts. All agricultural operations are designed in tune with climate pattern. Even a slight fluctuation in any critical environmental factor such as temperature may cause irreversible damage to agricultural performance. The present book underlines such concerns about current status our environment and agriculture. Edited by prominent scholars of the first and the largest agricultural university of India the book collates the perspective and research based articles portraying agriculture scenarios under the spell of on going climate change and offering adaptation strategies to overcome current and perceived problems. Containing 20 chapters the book discusses impact of the changing climate on agriculture and of agriculture on environment climate change influence on productivity of crops effect of high diurnal temperature on pollen and spikelet sterility climate change effects on forests and forestry and livestock livestock\'s contribution to global warming etc. The book also attempts to underline various strategies for reducing agricultures vulnerability to climate change and for adaptation to on going climate change. The book will be useful for agriculturists climate change specialists environmentalists policy makers and research scholars engaged in research on climate agriculture related issues.
