Climate Change and Sustainable Agro-ecology in Global Drylands

This book examines sustainable management of drylands to make agriculture drought resilient, with eminent scientists from around the world sharing their knowledge and experiences for adaptation and mitigation of the anthropogenic climate change through innovation in sustainable management of water, soil, crops, livestock and fisheries.
Drylands, a home for nearly 2.5 billion people, are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change, and dryland area may expand to 50% of the Earth's surface by 2100. Climate change may aggravate the prevalence of undernutrition and malnutrition because of adverse effects on quantity and quality of food production in these regions. This book takes a holistic approach to sustainable management of drylands to make agriculture drought-resilient. Eminent scientists from around the world share their knowledge and experiences for adaptation and mitigation of the anthropogenic climate change through innovation in sustainable management of water, soil, crops, livestock, and fisheries. They anticipate that climate change will have major impacts on agro- ecosystems which requires continuous dynamic assessments, globally, regionally, and at the local level where the major action of adaptation would have to occur. The assessment will require international cooperation and national capacity-building. This book emphasizes approaches such as smart and precision agriculture, conservation agriculture, and new innovation and technology as tools for adaptation and mitigation. Several chapters are devoted to the human dimensions and policy considerations with emphasis on enhancing coping and adaptive capacity. This book addresses the picture after COP27, including loss and damage, governance and finance. This book: Examines sustainable management for drylands as a solution to environmental and food security issues. Uses a holistic approach to evaluate sustainable management of drylands. Explains how researchers are translating science into action for greening global drylands. This work will be valuable to students and researchers in agroecology, climate change science and dryland agriculture.

Contributor: Ismael Serageldin (Contributions by), Sharon Mijares (Contributions by), Dena Merriam (Contributions by), Aliaa R. Rafea (Contributions by), Magdy Madkour (Contributions by), Ayman Abou Hadid (Contributions by), Wei Bai (Contributions by), Ren-hua Sun (Contributions by), Xin Zhao (Contributions by), C. Srinivasa Rao (Contributions by), Rajbir Singh (Contributions by), V. Padmaja-Karanam (Contributions by), Charles Kennel (Contributions by), Adel El-Beltagy (Edited by), Rattan Lal (Edited by), Kauser Abdulla Malik (Contributions by), Muhammad Sarwar Khan (Contributions by), Iqrar Ahmad Khan (Contributions by), Syed Aftab Wajid (Contributions by), Hai-Lin Zhang (Contributions by), Bai-Jian Lin (Contributions by), Yu-Xin Wei (Contributions by), Zhe Chen (Contributions by), Olatunde Pelumi Oladele (Contributions by), Jian-Fu Xue (Contributions by), Xing Wang (Contributions by), Chakib Jenane (Contributions by), Mario Allegri (Contributions by), João Carlos de Moraes Sá (Contributions by), Rajan Ghimire (Contributions by), Prakriti Bista (Contributions by), Juan Andrés Quincke (Contributions by), Michael Baum (Contributions by), Vinay Nangia (Contributions by), Jim Falk (Contributions by), Raj S. Paroda (Contributions by), Anuradha Agrawal (Contributions by), Krishi Anusandhan Bhavan (Contributions by), Kuldeep Tripathi (Contributions by), Theib Y. Oweis (Contributions by), Abdelghani El-Gindy (Contributions by), Abdelaziz Sheta (Contributions by), Meryl Williams (Contributions by), Adel Aboulnaga (Contributions by), Mohamed Youssef (Contributions by), Hafez Ghanem (Contributions by), Simeon Ehui (Contributions by), Steven Were Omamo (Contributions by), Kauser Abdulla Malik (Edited by)

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