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Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security
P. Parvatha Reddy
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Description for Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security
Hardcover. Num Pages: 373 pages, 23 black & white illustrations, 53 colour illustrations, 70 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: PSA; RNFF; RNPG; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 935.
Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security comprehensively deals with important aspects of climate resilient agriculture for food security using adaptation and mitigation measures. Climatic changes and increasing climatic variability are likely to aggravate the problem of future food security by exerting pressure on agriculture. For the past few decades, the gaseous composition of the earth's atmosphere has been undergoing significant changes, largely through increased emissions from the energy, industry and agriculture sectors; widespread deforestation as well as fast changes in land use and land management practices. Agriculture and food systems must improve and ensure food security, and to do ... Read more
Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security comprehensively deals with important aspects of climate resilient agriculture for food security using adaptation and mitigation measures. Climatic changes and increasing climatic variability are likely to aggravate the problem of future food security by exerting pressure on agriculture. For the past few decades, the gaseous composition of the earth's atmosphere has been undergoing significant changes, largely through increased emissions from the energy, industry and agriculture sectors; widespread deforestation as well as fast changes in land use and land management practices. Agriculture and food systems must improve and ensure food security, and to do ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer, India, Private Ltd India
Number of pages
373
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
912g
Number of Pages
373
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9788132221982
SKU
V9788132221982
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99-15
About P. Parvatha Reddy
Dr. P. Parvatha Reddy obtained his Ph.D. degree jointly from the University of Florida, USA and the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. Dr. Reddy served as the Director of the prestigious Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) at Bangalore from 1999 to 2002 during which period the Institute was honored with ICAR Best Institution Award . He also served ... Read more
Reviews for Climate Resilient Agriculture for Ensuring Food Security
This volume describes ... the direct impacts of climate change on agriculture systems, as well as the indirect impacts caused by weeds, insects, and diseases. ... This useful volume provides a comprehensive view of the significant actions required to achieve food security in the face of the threat of climate change. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division ... Read more