Climate smart agriculture : building resilience to climate change /

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Corporate Authors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Group Author: Lipper, Leslie (Editor); McCarthy, Nancy (Nancy A.) (Editor); Zilberman, David, 1947- (Editor); Asfaw, Solomon (Editor); Branca, Giacomo (Editor)
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham, Switzerland :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Natural resource management and policy, volume 52
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Carrier Form: xviii, 630 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9783319611938
3319611933
Index Number: S600
CLC: S162.5
Call Number: S162.5/C639-5
Contents: Introduction and overview / Soloman Asfaw and Giacomo Branca -- A short history of the evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its links to climate change and sustainable agriculture debates / Leslie Lipper and David Zilberman -- Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: an overview / Nancy McCarthy, Leslie Lipper, and David Zilberman -- Innovation in response to climate change / David Zilberman, Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, and Ben Gordon -- Use of satellite information on wetness and temperature for crop yield prediction and river resource planning / Alan Basist, Ariel Dinar, Brian Blankespoor, David Bachiochi, and Harold Houba -- Early warning techniques for local climate resilience: smallholder rice in Lao PDR / Drew Behnke, Sam Heft-Neal, and David Roland-Holst -- Farmers' perceptions of and adaptions to climate change in Southeast Asia: the case study from Thailand and Vietnam / Hermann Waibel, Thi Hoa Pahlisch, and March Völker -- U.S. maize yield growth and countervailing climate change impacts / Ariel Ortiz-Bobea -- Understanding tradeoffs in the context of farm-scale impacts: an application of decision-support tools for assessing Climate Smart Agriculture / Susan M. Capalbo, Clark Seavert, John M. Antle, Jenna Way, and Laurie Houston -- Can insurance help manage climate risk and food insecurity? Evidence from the pastoral regions of East Africa / Michael R. Carter, Sarah A. Janzen, and Quentin Stoeffler -- Can cash transfer programmes promote household resilience? Cross-country evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa / Soloman Asfaw and Benjamin Davis -- Input subsidy programs and Climate Smart Agriculture: current realities and future potential / Tom S. Jayne, Nicholas J. Sitko, Nicole M. Mason, and David Skole -- Robust decision making for a climate-resilient development of the agricultural sector in Nigeria / Valentina Mereu, Monia Santini, Raffaello Cervigni, Benedicte Augeard, Francesco Bosello, E. Scoccimarro, Donatella Spano, and Riccardo Valentini -- Using AgMIP regional integrated assessment methods to evaluate vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural systems / John M. Antle, Sabine Homann-KeeTui, Katrien Descheemaeker, Patricia Masikati, and Roberto O. Valdivia -- Climate Smart food supply chains in developing countries in an era of rapid dual change in agrifood systems and the climate / Thomas Reardon and David Zilberman -- The adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: the role of information and insurance under climate change / Jamie Mullins, Joshua Graff Zivin, Andrea Cattaneo, Adriana Paolantonio, and Romina Cavatassi -- A qualitative evaluation of CSA options in mixed crop-livestock systems in developing countries / Philip K. Thorton, Todd Rosenstock, Wiebke Förch, Christine Lamanna, Patrick Bell, Ben Henderson, and Mario Herrero -- Identifying strategies to enhance the resilience of smallholder farming systems: evidence from Zambia / Oscar Cacho, Adriana Paolantonio, Giacomo Branca, Romina Cavatassi, Aslihan Arslan, and Leslie Lipper -- Climate risk management through sustainable land and water management in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ephraim Nkonya, Jawoo Koo, Edward Kato, and Timothy Johnson -- Improving the resilience of Central Asian agriculture to weather variability and climate change / Alisher Mirzabaev -- Managing environmental risk in presence of climate change: the role of adaption in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia / Salvatore Di Falco and Marcella Veronesi -- Diversification as part of a CSA strategy: the cases of Zambia and Malawi -- Aslihan Arslan, Soloman Asfaw, Adriana Paolantonio, Romina Cavatassi, Nancy McCarthy, N. VanLinh, and Leslie Lipper -- Devising effective strategies and policies for CSA: insights from a panel of global policy experts / Patrick Caron, Mahendra Dev, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Cao Duc Phat, Uma Lele, Pedro Sanchez, and Lindiwe Majele Sibanda -- Conclusion and policy implications to "Climate Smart Agriculture: building resilience to climate change" / David Zilberman.