Sustainable Agriculture Reviews 33 : Climate Impact on Agriculture

This book presents advanced knowledge on the relationships between climate change and agriculture, and various adaptation techniques such as low tillage, salt-adapted beneficial microbes and closed systems. Climate change is unavoidable but adaptation is possible. Climate change and agriculture are interrelated processes, both of which take place on a global scale. Climate change affects agriculture through changes in average temperatures, rainfall and climate extremes; changes in pests and diseases; changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide; changes in the nutritional quality of some foods; and changes in sea level. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Impact of Human Activity and Climate on Nitrogen in Agriculture (Beata Kułek)....Pages 1-52 Impact of Tillage Methods on Environment, Energy and Economy (Egidijus Šarauskis, Zita Kriaučiūnienė, Kęstutis Romaneckas, Sidona Buragienė)....Pages 53-97 Coffee Production and Climate Change in Ethiopia (Birhanu Tsegaye Sisay)....Pages 99-113 Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Agro-Ecosystems (Saon Banerjee, Suman Samanta, Pramiti Kumar Chakraborti)....Pages 115-133 Methanogenesis and Methane Emission in Rice / Paddy Fields (N. K. Singh, D. B. Patel, G. D. Khalekar)....Pages 135-170 Physical and Biological Processes Controlling Soil C Dynamics (Pratap Srivastava, Rishikesh Singh, Rahul Bhadouria, Pardeep Singh, Sachchidanand Tripathi, Hema Singh et al.)....Pages 171-202 Halophilic Microbial Ecology for Agricultural Production in Salt Affected Lands (Sanjay Arora, Meghna J. Vanza)....Pages 203-229 Bioindicators of Degraded Soils (Debarati Bhaduri, Dibyendu Chatterjee, Koushik Chakraborty, Sumanta Chatterjee, Ajoy Saha)....Pages 231-257 Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture Evolution in Central Punjab, Pakistan (Muhammad Usman, Rudolf Liedl, Fan Zhang, Muhammad Zaman)....Pages 259-294 Closed and Semi-closed Systems in Agriculture (Ebrahim Hadavi, Noushin Ghazijahani)....Pages 295-310 Bioenergy and Sustainable Agriculture (Hossein Zahedi)....Pages 311-329 Back Matter ....Pages 331-335