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Title Climate smart agriculture : building resilience to climate change / Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, David Zilberman, Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca, editors.

Publication Info. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (XVIII, 630 pages) : 107 illustrations, 97 illustrations in color.
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Series Natural Resource Management and Policy, 0929-127X ; 52
Natural resource management and policy ; 52. 0929-127X
Contents Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates -- Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 4: Innovation in Response to Climate Change -- Chapter 5: Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Decision of Crop Yield Prediction, River Discharge and Planning -- Chapter 6: Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDE -- Chapter 7 : Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia: The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam -- Chapter 8: U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts -- Chapter 9: Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts: An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Argiculture -- Chapter 10: Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity?: Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa -- Chapter 11: Can Cash Transfer Programs Promote Household Resilience?: Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 12: Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 13: Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria -- Chapter 14: Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems -- Chapter 15: Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate -- Chapter 16: The Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Information and Insurance under Climate Change -- Chapter 17: A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries -- Chapter 18: Identifying Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence of Zambia -- Chapter 19: Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 20: Improving the Resilience of Central Asian Agriculture to Weather Viability and Climate Change -- Chapter 21: Managing Environmental Risk in the Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaption in the Mile Basin of Ethiopia -- Chapter 22: Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi -- Chapter 23: Economic Analysis of Improved Smallholder Paddy and Maize Production in Northern Vietnam and Implications for Climate-Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 24: Synthesis: Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA -- Chapter 25: Conclusions and Policy Implications.
Summary This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Local Note SpringerLink Springer Nature Open Access eBooks
Subject Agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Crops and climate -- Environmental aspects.
Global warming.
Science -- General.
Political Science -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
Research & development management.
Political economy.
Business & Economics -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
Agricultural science.
Agriculture -- Economic aspects. (OCoLC)fst00801415
Economic policy. (OCoLC)fst00902025
Added Author Lipper, Leslie, editor.
McCarthy, Nancy (Nancy A.), editor.
Zilberman, David, 1947- editor.
Asfaw, Solomon, editor.
Branca, Giacomo, editor.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Other Form: Printed edition: 9783319611938
ISBN 9783319611945 (electronic book)
3319611941 (electronic book)
Standard No. 10.1007/978-3-319-61194-5 doi
ISBN 3319611933
9783319611938
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