Global Climate Change: Resilient and Smart Agriculture

This book will provide useful insights into methods and practices of ΓÇÿClimate-smart AgricultureΓÇÖ which is driven by the principles of climate resilience and smart resource use in agricultural production. Climate-smart agriculture is a key policy instrument to achieve poverty eradication, hunger-free world, and curb the effects of climate change. This book aims to discuss in detail about climate-smart agricultural technologies and practices that reduces the vulnerabilities of agricultural systems, improves the livelihood of the farmers and other stakeholders and also reduces the greenhouse gas emissions from crop production and livestock husbandry.
Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector contributes about 10ΓÇô12 gigaton of CO2-equivalent per year; therefore sustainable practices for agriculture and related land use have immense potential to mitigate climate change. The potential impacts of climate variability and climate change on agriculture are extensively documented and articulated prominently within Global and National environmental agenda warranting innovation, transformation and climate-resilient trajectory in agriculture. Climate-smart Agriculture is an excellent tool to upscale agricultural output to feed the growing global population; to mitigate greenhouse gases emissions from agriculture and other land use; to adapt the agricultural production system against impending dangers of climate change.