A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for
the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a
sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological
diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a
growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of
actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global
warming, and as the population continues to grow. Current
projections suggest that the world's temperatures will rise 1.8-4.0
by 2100 and population may reach 8 billion by the year 2025 and
some 9 billion by mid-century, after which it may stabilize. This
book addresses these critical issues by presenting the science
needed not only to understand climate change effects on crops but
also to adapt current agricultural systems, particularly in regard
to genetics, to the changing conditions.
Crop Adaptation to Climate Change covers a spectrum of
issues related to both crops and climatic conditions. The first two
sections provide a foundation on the factors involved in climate
stress, assessing current climate change by region and covering
crop physiological responses to these changes. The third and final
section contains chapters focused on specific crops and the current
research to improve their genetic adaptation to climate change.
Written by an international team of authors, Crop Adaptation
to Climate Change is a timely look at the potentially serious
consequences of climate change for our global food supply, and is
an essential resource for academics, researchers and professionals
in the fields of crop science, agronomy, plant physiology and
molecular biology; crop consultants and breeders; as well as
climate and food scientists.
Autorentext
Shyam S. Yadav is International Advisor in Agriculture at Civilian Technical Assistance Program, General Directorate of Programs, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock, Kabul, Afghanistan
Robert Redden is a Curator of genetic resources at the Australian Temperate and Field Crops Collection (ATFCC), Department of Primary Industries, Australia
Jerry L. Hatfield is Laboratory Director and Supervisory Plant Physiologist at the USDA-Agriculture Research Service, United States of America
Hermann Lotze-Campen is a Group Leader in Earth System Analysis at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany
Anthony Hall is Emeritus Professor of Plant Physiology at the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California Riverside, California, United States of America
Klappentext
Many of the effects of global warming, changing temperature and rainfall patterns, have been recognized as climate change factors affecting agriculture, and these climate trends are expected to adversely affect crops in most agricultural regions in coming decades and be only partly compensated by increased CO2 concentrations and improved environments in northern latitudes and high altitudes, with net overall depression of yield. Global climate change therefore calls for advancements in crop genetic diversity, to develop genotypes which can adapt to a variety of complex climate changes and withstand less than ideal growing conditions.
Crop Adaptation to Climate Change covers a spectrum of issues related to both crops and climatic conditions. The first two sections provide a foundation on the factors involved in climate stress, assessing current climate change by region and covering crop physiological responses to these changes. The third and final section contains chapters focused on specific crops and the current research to improve their genetic adaptation to climate change.
Written by an international team of authors, Crop Adaptation to Climate Change is a timely look at the potentially serious consequences of climate change for our global food supply, and is an essential resource for academics, researchers and professionals in the fields of crop science, agronomy, plant physiology and molecular biology; crop consultants and breeders; as well as climate and food scientists.
Zusammenfassung
A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global warming, and as the population continues to grow. Current projections suggest that the world's temperatures will rise 1.8-4.0 by 2100 and population may reach 8 billion by the year 2025 and some 9 billion by mid-century, after which it may stabilize. This book addresses these critical issues by presenting the science needed not only to understand climate change effects on crops but also to adapt current agricultural systems, particularly in regard to genetics, to the changing conditions.
Crop Adaptation to Climate Change covers a spectrum of issues related to both crops and climatic conditions. The first two sections provide a foundation on the factors involved in climate stress, assessing current climate change by region and covering crop physiological responses to these changes. The third and final section contains chapters focused on specific crops and the current research to improve their genetic adaptation to climate change.
Written by an international team of authors, Crop Adaptation to Climate Change is a timely look at the potentially serious consequences of climate change for our global food supply, and is an essential resource for academics, researchers and professionals in the fields of crop science, agronomy, plant physiology and molecular biology; crop consultants and breeders; as well as climate and food scientists.
Inhalt
List of Contributors ix
List of Editors xvi
About the Editors xvii
Foreword by Daniel Hillel and Cynthia Rosenzweig xx
Foreword by M.S. Swaminathan xxii
Foreword by Martin Parry xxiv
Foreword by Ahmed Djoghlaf xxv
Foreword by Cary Fowler xxvii
Foreword by David K. Skelly xxix
Foreword by Walter P. Falcon xxx
Preface xxxii
Acknowledgments xxxiii
Chapter 1.1: Climate Change, Population Growth, and Crop Production: An Overview 1
Hermann Lotze-Campen
Chapter 1.2: Downscaling Global Climatic Predictions to the Regional Level: A Case Study of Regional Effects of Climate Change on Wheat Crop Production in Victoria, Australia 12
Garry O'Leary, Brendan Christy, Anna Weeks, James Nuttall, Penny Riffkin, Craig Beverly, and Glenn Fitzgerald
Chapter 2: Agroecology: Implications for Plant Response to Climate Change 27
Jerry L. Hatfield and John H. Prueger
Chapter 3.1: Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Production in Latin America 44
Andy Jarvis, Julian Ramirez, Osana Bonilla-Findji, and Emmanuel Zapata
Chapter 3.2: Changing Climate in North America: Implications for Crops 57
Jerry L. Hatfield
Chapter 3.3: Regional Impacts of Climate Change: Africa 66
Ranjana Bhattacharjee, Bonny R. Ntare, Emmanuel Otoo, and Pius Z. Yanda
Chapter 3.4: Regional Climate Impacts on Agriculture in Europe 78
Hermann Lotze-Campen
Chapter 3.5: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union 84
Andrei Kirilenko and Nikolay Dronin
Chapter 3.6: Climate Change Impact in Agriculture: Vulnerability and Adaptation Concerns of Semiarid Tropics in Asia 107
Naveen P. Singh, Ma Cynthia S. Bantilan, A. Ashok …