Climate Smart Agriculture
Building Resilience to Climate Change
Editors: Lipper, L., McCarthy, N., Zilberman, D., Asfaw, S., Branca, G. (Eds.)
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- Operationalizes CSA within the context of economic decision-making
- Uses a wide array of case studies to illustrate the strong real-world applicability of CSA
- Addresses policy issues related to climate change
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO license.
The book uses an economic lens to identify the main features of climate-smart agriculture (CSA), its likely impact, and the challenges associated with its implementation. Drawing upon theory and concepts from agricultural development, institutional, and resource economics, this book expands and formalizes the conceptual foundations of CSA. Focusing on the adaptation/resilience dimension of CSA, the text embraces a mixture of conceptual analyses, including theory, empirical and policy analysis, and case studies, to look at adaptation and resilience through three possible avenues: ex-ante reduction of vulnerability, increasing adaptive capacity, and ex-post risk coping.
The book is divided into three sections. The first section provides conceptual framing, giving an overview of the CSA concept and grounding it in core economic principles. The second section is devoted to a set of case studies illustrating the economic basis of CSA in terms of reducing vulnerability, increasing adaptive capacity and ex-post risk coping. The final section addresses policy issues related to climate change. Providing information on this new and important field in an approachable way, this book helps make sense of CSA and fills intellectual and policy gaps by defining the concept and placing it within an economic decision-making framework. This book will be of interest to agricultural, environmental, and natural resource economists, development economists, and scholars of development studies, climate change, and agriculture. It will also appeal to policy-makers, development practitioners, and members of governmental and non-governmental organizations interested in agriculture, food security and climate change. - Reviews
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“The book brings together research, analysts and opinions of leading experts to develop the conceptual, empirical evidence and policy basis for CSA. This aspect of knowledge integration would be one of the core values added as no other book does this in one place. … I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in this field of study.” (Ali M. Oumer, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 63 (1), 2019)
- Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Introduction and Overview
Pages 3-12
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A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and Its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates
Pages 13-30
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Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: An Overview
Pages 31-47
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Innovation in Response to Climate Change
Pages 49-74
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Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Crop Yield Prediction and River Resource Planning
Pages 77-104
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Climate Smart Agriculture
- Book Subtitle
- Building Resilience to Climate Change
- Editors
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- Leslie Lipper
- Nancy McCarthy
- David Zilberman
- Solomon Asfaw
- Giacomo Branca
- Series Title
- Natural Resource Management and Policy
- Series Volume
- 52
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- FAO
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-61194-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-61194-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-61193-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-87024-3
- Series ISSN
- 0929-127X
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 630
- Number of Illustrations
- 10 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour
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