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Hardback
December 2024
9781800624856
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CABI - ISBN 9781800624856
- Language English
- Pages 384 pp.
- Size 6" x 9"
$195.00
Drylands, a home for nearly 2.5 billion people, are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change, and dryland area may expand to 50% of the Earth's surface by 2100. Climate change may also aggravate the prevalence of undernutrition and malnutrition because of adverse effects on quantity and quality of food production in these regions. This book takes a holistic approach to sustainable management of drylands to make agriculture drought-resilient. Eminent scientists from around the world share their knowledge and experiences for adaptation and mitigation of anthropogenic climate change through innovation in sustainable management of water, soil, crops, livestock, and fisheries. They anticipate that climate change will have major impacts on agro-ecosystems which require continuous dynamic assessments, globally, regionally, and at the local level where the major action of adaptation would have to occur. The assessment will require international cooperation and national capacity-building. This book emphasizes approaches such as smart and precision agriculture, conservation agriculture, and new innovation and technology as tools for adaptation and mitigation. Several chapters are devoted to the human dimensions and policy considerations with emphasis on enhancing coping and adaptive capacity. This book addresses the picture after COP27, including loss and damage, governance, and finance.
This book:
- Examines sustainable management for drylands as a solution to environmental and food security issues.
- Uses a holistic approach to evaluate sustainable management of drylands.
- Explains how researchers are translating science into action for greening global drylands.
Author Biographies
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
1) Introduction
PART I: GLOBAL CHAPTERS
2) Navigation through Uncertainties
Part A: Regional Action on Climate Change
Part B: Agro-ecosystems Affected by Dynamic Impact of Climate Change
3) Carbon Farming in Global Drylands
4) Plant Genetic Resources for Adaptation to Climate Change in Drylands
5) Agro-management Techniques and Precision Agriculture/Agriculture 4.0
in Arid Lands
6) Impact of Climate Change on Inland and Ocean Fisheries and Aquaculture
7) Impact of Climate Change on Livestock in Drylands
PART II: REGIONAL CASE STUDIES
8) Climate Change and Food Security in Africa’s Drylands
9) Case Studies in America on Carbon Management and Sequestration
in Agriculture
10) Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA)
PART III: NATIONAL CASE STUDIES
11) Innovations, Strategies, and Policies for Building Resilience of India’s Dryland
Farming to Climate Change
12) Climate Change and Sustainable Agro-ecology in China’s Dryland: A Case Study
13) Dryland Agriculture in Pakistan under Changing Climate: A Case Study
14) Resilience and Adaptation of Egyptian Agriculture
PART IV: MORE GLOBAL CHAPTERS
15) Humanity and Nature
16) Protecting Vulnerable Lives and Livelihoods in Times of Climate Change
17) The Day after COP28
Index
Adel El-Beltagy
Adel El-Beltagy is currently Chair of the Int'l Dryland Dev. Commission (IDDC); Professor, Arid Land Agric. Graduate Studies and Research Institute (ALARI), Ain Shams University, Egypt; Chair, Food and Agric. Res. Council, Egyptian Academy of Science and Technology; Member, Advisory Board, Bibliotheca Alexandrina; and Board member, Regional Action for Climate Change (RACC), Science and Technology in Society Forum (STS), Kyoto, Japan. El-Beltagy served as President, Governing Board, Int'l Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) (2010-2015), Minister of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (2014-2015), Board Member, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (2006-2012), Chair, BA Executive Board (2015-2018). Council member, Consultative Group on Int'l Agric. Res. (CGIAR) (2006- 2011), Chair, Global Forum on Agric. Res. (GFAR) (2006-2010), Member, FAO High-Level Committee addressing the implementation of the UN millennium dev. goals (MDGs) (2006-2011), Board Member, UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board (2004-2005), Chair, Global Consortium to Re-build Agric. in Afghanistan (2002-2006), Chairman, CGIAR Consortium for Sustainable Agric. Dev. in Central Asia&the Caucasus (CAC) (1996-2006), DG, Int'l Center for Agric. Res. in Dry Areas (ICARDA) (1995-2006), Member, CGIAR Genetic Resources Policy Committee (1994-1999), Chairman, Sci/Tech. Council of the Int'l Sahara and Sahel Observatory (SSO) (1993-2002). Awards include The Golden Medal of the Int'l Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM); Commander of the Order of Agric. Merit, in recognition to his efforts in the Int'l Agric. Dev., particularly in the Mediterranean countries, Government of France.; The Sultan Qaboos "First Class" Order for Culture, Sciences and Arts, Oman; Al-Istiklal Medal by His Majesty King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein of Jordan; Fellow of the University of Wales.
Rattan Lal
Rattan Lal, Ph.D., is a Distinguished University Professor and Director of CFAES Rattan Lal Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration, the Ohio State University (1987-to date), was soil Physicist (1969-1987) at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria, and a senior research Fellow (1968-1969) at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests are soil carbon sequestration, soil physical properties and processes, soil health, conservation agriculture, soil restoration and sustainable management of soils, and food and nutritional security. He has authored, co-authored ~1100 journal articles, 575 book chapters, and written/edited 110 books. He has mentored about 400 scholars from around the world. He was President of the World Association of Soil and Water Conservation (1987-1990), International Soil and Tillage Research Organization (1987-1989), Soil Science Society of America (2006-2008), and the International Union of Soil Sciences (2017-2018). Prof. Lal is a member of 7 global professional academies, and has received 9 honorary degrees from universities in USA, Europe, India, and South America. He holds a Chair in Soil Science and Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainability Issues for IICA, Costa Rica. He was a member of the 2021-UNFSS Science Committee and Action Track 3 with focus on "Coalition 4 Action on Soil Health". He is a member of the U.N. Food System Coordination Hub. Prof. Lal is laureate of the 2018 World Soil Prize, 2019 Japan Prize, 2020 World Food Prize, 2020 Arrell Innovation Prize, and 2021 Padma Shri Award from the President of India.
Kauser Abdulla Malik
Dr. Kauser Abdulla Malik is a Distinguished National Professor of Biotechnology and is currently leading Agricultural Biotechnology programs at KAM School of Life Sciences at Forman Christian College (a Chartered University), Lahore since 2008. Earlier Dr. Malik was Chairman of Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (1998-2001); Member Biosciences, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (2001-2006), and Member (Food Agri) Planning Commission, Islamabad (2006-2008). Before his stint in Islamabad, Dr. Malik was Head of Soil Biology Division of Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) from 1971-1992. His earlier research was on Biology of Saline Soils and biodynamics of organic matter formation. These led to the development of Biosaline Agriculture technology which was later picked up by FAO/IAEA Joint Divion and implemented in several countries of Middle East. Dr. Malik was a pioneer in reporting associative nitrogen fixation associated with roots of non-legumes. Such studies led to the development of commercial biofertilizers for cereal crops. Subsequently Dr. Malik developed interest in plant biotechnology and was thus, founding Director of National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE) at Faisalabad (1992-1998). His interest in plant biotechnology related to biofortification and transgenic wheat for salt tolerance, drought tolerance, and increased fertilizer use efficiency. He has been Member of the Standing Advisory Group for Nuclear Applications (SAGNA) of IAEA for 9 years; Member Board of Trustees of International Foundation of Science (IFS), Stockholm; Member BoG of International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna. He has over 250 research articles published in peer reviewed journals and has edited 5 books. Dr. Malik was awarded three civil awards by the President of Pakistan for his services to science. He is a Fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences (PAS) and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
Dryland Agriculture; Adaptation; Mitigation; Drought Stress; Food Security; Sustainable Management; Optimization of Water Use; Farming Systems; Smart and Precision Agriculture; Carbon Farming; Sustainable Intensification; Soil and Water Conservation; Desertification and Degradation; Enhancing Coping and Adaptive Capacity; Policy Interventions; Finance