Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production: Impacts, Vulnerabilities & Remedies /

Kibria, Golam

Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production: Impacts, Vulnerabilities & Remedies / Golam Kibria, A.K. Yousuf Haroon, Dayanthi Nugegoda - New Delhi : New India Publishing Agency (NIPA), 2013. - xi, 290 p. : 29 cm.

1. Climate change and green house gas emissions (GHG) from agriculture, livestock and fisheries.
2. Climate change impacts on agriculture, livestock and fisheries
3. Climate change impacts on food contamination and food safety
4. Climate change impacts on food security
5. Climate change adaptation and mitigation measures in agriculture, livestock and fisheries.

The book ‘Climate Change and Agricultural Food Production: Impacts, Vulnerabilities and Remedies’ provides an overview of climate change impacts on all agricultural food producing sectors (agriculture, livestock and fisheries), food contamination, and food safety (microbial pathogens, toxic biological & toxic chemical contaminants), food security and climate change adaptation and mitigation measures to counteract or minimise or reduce the effects of climate change on agriculture, livestock and fisheries. It reviews and summarizes research results, data and information from the world including Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Polar Regions and Small Island Nations. The book has been structured as textbook, reference book and extension book and written in simple and plain English with key facts and acronyms and glossary provided in each with tables and figures to benefit a wide range of readers.

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Agricultural productivity
Climatic changes
Crops and climate
Climatology

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