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Title
Climate-smart agriculture : reducing food insecurity / Samiha Ouda, Abd El-Hafeez Zohry.
ISBN
9783030931117 (electronic bk.)
3030931110 (electronic bk.)
3030931102
9783030931100
Imprint
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxii, 185 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-030-93111-7 doi
Call Number
S494.5.S95
Dewey Decimal Classification
630.2/086
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 19, 2022).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030931100
Introduction
Water-smart practices to manage water scarcity
Soil-smart practices: Integrated soil fertility management
Fish farms effluents for irrigation and fertilizer: A field and modeling studies
Integration between crop-smart, water-smart and soil-smart practices
Climate extremes and crops
Climate-resilient crops
Assessment of climate variability and wheat productivity in Egypt
Practices contribute in reduction of greenhouse gases.
