Climate Change-Resilient Agriculture and Agroforestry

1. Front Matter

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2. Terraced Agroforestry Systems in West Anti-Atlas (Morocco): Incidence of Climate Change and Prospects for Sustainable Development

   • Mohamed Ziyadi, Abdallah Dahbi, Abderahmane Aitlhaj, Abdeltif El Ouahrani, Abdelhadi El Ouahidi, Hafid Achtak

   Pages 1-19

3. Increasing Pulse Consumption to Improve Human Health and Food Security and to Mitigate Climate Change

   • Beatriz Oliveira, Ana Pinto de Moura, Luís Miguel Cunha

   Pages 21-35

4. Ecosystem Services and Incentive Mechanisms for Environmental Preservation in Brazil

   • Andréia Faraoni Freitas Setti, Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro

   Pages 37-51

5. Are We Missing the Big Picture? Unlocking the Social-Ecological Resilience of High Nature Value Farmlands to Future Climate Change

   • A. Lomba, A. Buchadas, João P. Honrado, F. Moreira

   Pages 53-72

6. Profitability of Cassava Based Farms Adopting Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Practices in Delta State, Nigeria

   • Anthony O. Onoja, Joshua Agbomedarho, Ibisime Etela, Eunice N. Ajie

   Pages 73-88

7. Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices (CSA) Adoption by Crop Farmers in Semi-arid Regions of West and East Africa: Evidence from Nigeria and Ethiopia

   • Anthony O. Onoja, Amanuel Z. Abraha, Atkilt Girma, Anthonia I. Achike

   Pages 89-113

8. Challenges, Futures and Possibilities of Land Use in Rural Areas of Cela Municipality: Risks, Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Links to Sustainability

   • Bernardo Castro

   Pages 115-136

9. Future Climate Change Impacts on Malta’s Agriculture, Based on Multi-model Results from WCRP’s CMIP5

   • Charles Galdies, Kimberly Vella

   Pages 137-156

10. The Urgent Need for Enhancing Forest Ecosystem Resilience Under the Anticipated Climate Portfolio Over Kerala Under RCP 4.5 and Its Possible Implications on Forests

    • Praveen Dhanya, Andimuthu Ramachandran

    Pages 157-174

11. Mediterranean Marginal Lands in Face of Climate Change: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

    • Helena Castro, Paula Castro

    Pages 175-187

12. Sustainable Food Systems in Culturally Coherent Social Contexts: Discussions Around Culture, Sustainability, Climate Change and the Mediterranean Diet

    • F. Xavier Medina

    Pages 189-196

13. Multifunctional Urban Agriculture and Agroforestry for Sustainable Land Use Planning in the Context of Climate Change in Serbia

    • Jelena Živanović Miljković, Tijana Crnčević

    Pages 197-213

14. Alien Plant Species: Environmental Risks in Agricultural and Agro-Forest Landscapes Under Climate Change

    • Joana R. Vicente, Ana Sofia Vaz, Ana Isabel Queiroz, Ana R. Buchadas, Antoine Guisan, Christoph Kueffer et al.

    Pages 215-234

15. Remote Sensing of Droughts Impacts on Maize Prices Using SPOT-VGT Derived Vegetation Index

    • John A. Ogbodo, Ejiet John Wasige, Sakirat M. Shuaibu, Timothy Dube, Samuel Emeka Anarah

    Pages 235-255

16. Anthropic Action Effects Caused by Soybean Farmers in a Watershed of Tocantins—Brazil and Its Connections with Climate Change

    • José Jamil Fernandes Martins, Amadeu M. V. M. Soares, Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Mauro Lucio Torres Correia

    Pages 257-281

17. Enhancing Food Security and Climate Change Resilience in Degraded Land Areas by Resilient Crops and Agroforestry

    • Muhammad Saqib, Javaid Akhtar, Ghulam Abbas, Ghulam Murtaza

    Pages 283-297

18. Community Participation in Climate Change Mitigation Research in the Arid and Semi-Arid Areas of Sudan

    • N. A. Mutwali, M. E. Ballal, A. M. Farah

    Pages 299-316

19. Using of Optimization Strategy for Reducing Water Scarcity in the Face of Climate Change

    • Mohammad Javad Zareian, Saeid Eslamian

    Pages 317-331

20. Climate Change Impact on Agriculture and Irrigation Network

    • Zohreh Dehghan, Farshad Fathian, Saeid Eslamian

    Pages 333-354

This book collects wide-ranging contributions such as case studies, reviews, reports on technological developments, outputs of research/studies, and examples of successful projects, presenting current knowledge and raising awareness to help the agriculture and forestry sectors find solutions for mitigating climate variability and adapting to change. It brings the topic of ecosystem services closer to education and learning, as targeted by the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. Climate change and its impacts on agriculture and agroforestry have been observed across the world during the last 50 years. Increasing temperatures, droughts, biotic stresses and the impacts of extreme events have continuously decreased agroforestry systems’ resilience to the effects of climate change. As such, there is a need to adapt farming and agroforestry systems so as to make them better ableto handle ever-changing climate conditions, and to preserve habitats and ecosystems services. 

• Climate Change Impact on Agriculture
• Adapted Farming
• Agriculture Ecosystems
• Sustainability
• Agroforestry Ecosystems
• Resilient Farming
• Agroforestry Adaptation
• Ecosystems Services
• climate change
• Forestry Management

   

• CFE - Centre for Functional Ecology - Science for People & the Planet, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  Paula Castro

• Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

  Anabela Marisa Azul

• Faculty of Life Sciences, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  Walter Leal Filho

• Department of Biology and CESAM, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

  Ulisses M. Azeiteiro

Paula Cristina Castro is currently an Invited Auxiliary Professor at the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra. She began her teaching activity in 1997, having taught several courses in the fields of Biology, Ecology, Environmental Management, Soil Ecology and Pollution, Environmental Impact Assessment, Integrated Management Systems, and Environmental Education. She is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology, University of Coimbra and her main research interests include climate-resilient ecosystem’s services and sustainability (urban, agriculture, agroforestry), environmental education and the application of GIS as a tool for analysis and prediction of future scenarios and to support decision making in biodiversity, ecology and ecosystem management.  


Anabela Marisa Azul is at Center of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra. Her investigation has being centred on understanding the mutual interactions between plant and fungi and their functional role in the sustainability in Mediterranean forests, fully engaging in participatory research. She is currently supporting the implementation of Translational Research that link health and life/environmental sciences, as well as actively promoting new research-education strategies that bring together the scientific community and the different social/ economical players. Her research interests include education research, science-art collaborations, and research & innovation that combine health and sustainability chains.   


Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Applications of Life Sciences" at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U)series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.  

Ulisses M Azeiteiro is a Senior Professor and Coordinator of the Climate Change and Biodiversity Assets Unit from the Biology Department and Integrated Member/Senior Researcher of the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) at University of Aveiro in Portugal. 
His main interests are the impacts of climate change in the marine environment (biology and ecology of global change) and adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development (social and environmental sustainability and climate change). Professor Azeiteiro has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 200 publications, including books (> 20), book chapters (> 50), special issues of scientific journals and papers in refereed journals ( 50 peer reviewed).

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