Global Climate Change and Cultivated Production

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Global climate change in agriculture. 3. Food processing and cold storage. 4. The importance of grasslands. 5. Consequence of tropical vegetation on seeds. 6. Climate change information for water resource in agriculture. 7. Climate change and forest. 8. Climate effects on plants soil pests and diseases. 9. Climate change in rainfed and dry land agriculture. 10. Global warming and the impacts of climate change. Index. Global climate change explains very briefly what has been happening to the world's climate and why and what is projected to happen in the future. Climate change refers to the variation in the earth's global climate or in regional climates over time. It describes changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can be caused by processes internal to the earth external forces or more recently human activities. Climate change is expected to influence crop and livestock production hydrologic balances input supplies and other components of agricultural systems. However the nature of these biophysical effects and the human responses to them are complex and uncertain compendious and exhaustive.