Climate-Smart Agriculture

Reducing Food Insecurity

• Author(s): Samiha Ouda, Abd El-Hafeez Zohry,
• Publisher: Springer Nature
• Pages: 185
• ISBN_10: 3030931110
  ISBN_13: 9783030931117
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General , Science / Earth Sciences / Hydrology , Technology & Engineering / Food Science / General , Science / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology , Science / Environmental Science , Science / Life Sciences / Horticulture , Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development ,

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This book tackles the main feature of water-smart, soil-smart and crop-smart practices and their integration to sustainably enhance food production. The book includes some insights on the implications of using climate-smart practices in irrigated and rain-fed agriculture, and suggests approaches to eradicate the negative effects of water scarcity, climate variability and climate change. The book reviews the most important crops resilient to climate variability and their resistance to other biotic and abiotic stresses, and contains the existing practices in Egypt that achieved the three pillars of climate-smart agriculture