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Author Ouda, Samiha A. H., author

Title Climate-smart agriculture : reducing food insecurity / Samiha Ouda, Abd El-Hafeez Zohry
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 185 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
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 Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 19, 2022)
Subject Sustainable agriculture.
Water in agriculture.
sustainable agriculture (discipline)
Sustainable agriculture
Water in agriculture
Form Electronic book
Author Zohry, Abd El-Hafeez, author
ISBN 9783030931117
3030931110