This chapter introduces the book 'Climate Change Impact and Adaptation in Agricultural Systems', which is comprised of fifteen chapters. The book provides insights into sensitivities and possible adaptive measures to climate change across a number of different production systems, ranging from...

This chapter focuses on the importance of intensive cropping systems in contributing to the world supply of food and feed. The impact of climate change on intensive crop production systems is also discussed.

This chapter analyses climate change and climatic variation scenarios for South Asia and assesses the vulnerability of the rice-wheat system to climate change. Some adaptation strategies to climate change for the system are suggested, with a focus on the Indo-Gangetic plains.

This chapter reviews the impact of climate change on, and the adaptation potential of, ecologically intensive systems such as those known in different parts of the world as organic farming, or agroecology. To fit into the rationale of this book, this chapter focuses on Latin America, and on the...

This chapter focuses on the impacts of climate change on intensive maize and wheat production systems. Some technologies to close the yield gap to achieve sustainable intensification are also discussed.

This chapter presents a general overview of the quality of soil resources and fertilizer use in rice production areas in Africa. Innovations to increase rice productivity through improved nutrient use are discussed for production systems at different stages of intensification in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

This chapter sets the context of this book by defining food security, food sovereignty and food self-sufficiency; looks at current and future food needs; places food security in the context of the international development agenda; and considers growing support for the sustainable intensification of ...

This chapter focuses on current control practices and management strategies for root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) and on future developments that may affect management in intensive crop production systems. Chemical (fumigant nematicides, non-fumigant nematicides, and other compounds), cultural ...

This book provides an overview (chapter 1) of the general biology, ecology and economic importance of root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.), and covers in detail the following: general morphology (chapter 2); taxonomy, identification and principal species (chapter 3); biochemical and molecular...

The question of how increased soil organic carbon (SOC) levels, through increased buffering for water, cations, and against pH-changes, translate into maize yields and increased efficiency of inorganic fertilizers is addressed. The study investigates how much organic matter needs to be applied to...