Climate Smart Agriculture Building Resilience to Climate Change / [electronic resource] : edited by Leslie Lipper, Nancy McCarthy, David Zilberman, Solomon Asfaw, Giacomo Branca. - XVIII, 630 p. 107 illus., 97 illus. in color. online resource. - Natural Resource Management and Policy, 52 0929-127X ; . - Natural Resource Management and Policy, 52 .

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates -- Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 4:  Innovation in Response to Climate Change -- Chapter 5:  Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Decision of Crop Yield Prediction, River Discharge and Planning -- Chapter 6:  Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDE -- Chapter 7 :  Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia:  The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam -- Chapter 8:  U.S. Maize Yield Growth and Countervailing Climate Change Impacts -- Chapter 9:  Understanding Tradeoffs in the Context of Farm-Scale Impacts:  An Application of Decision-Support Tools for Assessing Climate Smart Argiculture -- Chapter 10:  Can Insurance Help Manage Climate Risk and Food Insecurity?: Evidence from the Pastoral Regions of East Africa -- Chapter 11:  Can Cash Transfer Programs Promote Household Resilience?: Cross-Country Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 12:  Input Subsidy Programs and Climate Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 13:  Robust Decision Making for a Climate-Resilient Development of the Agricultural Sector in Nigeria -- Chapter 14:  Using AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Methods to Evaluate Vulnerability, Resilience and Adaptive Capacity for Climate Smart Agricultural Systems -- Chapter 15:  Climate Smart Food Supply Chains in Developing Countries in an Era of Rapid Dual Change in Agrifood Systems and the Climate -- Chapter 16:  The Adoption of Climate Smart Agriculture: The Role of Information and Insurance under Climate Change -- Chapter 17:  A Qualitative Evaluation of CSA Options in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems in Developing Countries -- Chapter 18: Identifying Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of Smallholder Farming Systems: Evidence of Zambia -- Chapter 19:  Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 20:  Improving the Resilience of Central Asian Agriculture to Weather Viability and Climate Change -- Chapter 21:  Managing Environmental Risk in the Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaption in the Mile Basin of Ethiopia -- Chapter 22: Diversification as Part of a CSA Strategy: The Cases of Zambia and Malawi -- Chapter 23:  Economic Analysis of Improved Smallholder Paddy and Maize Production in Northern Vietnam and Implications for Climate-Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 24:  Synthesis:  Devising Effective Strategies and Policies for CSA -- Chapter 25:  Conclusions and Policy Implications.

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