Climate Change and Agricultural Development

Udaya Sekhar Nagothu is a Professor and Director (International Projects) at NIBIO (Norsk institutt for biookonomi /Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research), As, Norway. He is the editor of Food Security and Development: Country Case Studies (Routledge, 2015).

• 1. Climate Smart Agriculture: Is This the New Paradigm of Agricultural Development? Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Solveig Kolberg and Clare Maeve Stirling 2. Climate Extremes, Climate Variability and Climate Smart Agriculture Molly E. Brown 3. Building Climate Resilience through Smart Water and Irrigation Management Systems: Experience from Southeast Asia Matthew P. McCartney, Robyn Johnston and Guillaume Lacombe 4. Combating Climate Change: Developing Sustainable Intensive Farming Systems in China Mei Xurong, Dong Hongmin, Li Yue, Nicholas Clarke, Gong Daozhi, Hao Weiping, Li Yingchun, Liu Buchun, Ma Xin and Xiong Wei 5. Climate Variabilityand Extremes: Relevance of Agro-ecological-based Climate Smart Farming Systems in the Sub-Saharan Africa Sita Ghimire, Monday Ahonsi and Appolinaire Djikeng 6. Building Resilience in African Smallholder Farming Communities through Farmer-led Agro-ecological Methods Rachel Bezner Kerr, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Esther Lupafya, Laifolo Dakishoni, Lizzie. Shumba and Isaac Luginaah 7. Precision Nutrient Management under Conservation Agriculture-based Cereal Systems in South Asia Tek B. Sapkota, Kaushik Majumdar, Ritika Khurana, Raj K. Jat, Clare Maeve Stirling and Jat M.L. 8. Integrated Soil and Nutrient Management Practices: Adaptation and Mitigation to Climate Change Impacts Mehreteab Tesfai, Irene Moed, Inga Greipsland, Thorsten Huber and Niek van Duivenbooden 9. Water Productivity under Different Rice Growing Practices: Results from Farmer-led Field Demonstrations in India Johannes Deelstra, Krishna Reddy K., Suresh Reddy K., Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Geethalakshmi V., Lakshmanan A. and Arasu M.S. 10. Climate Smart Rice Production Systems: Studying the Potential of Alternate Wetting and Drying Irrigation Krishna Reddy K., Mehreteab Tesfai, Andrew Borrell, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Suresh Reddy K. and Gurava Reddy K. 11. System of Rice Intensification: A Climate-smart Rice Cultivation System to Mitigate Climate Change Impacts in India Geethalakshmi V., Mehreteab Tesfai, Lakshmanan A., Andrew Borrell, Udaya Sekhar Nagothu, Arasu M.S., Senthilraja K., Manikandan N. and Sumathi S. 12. Gendered Adaptation to Climate Change in Canal-irrigated Agro-ecosystems Rengalakshmi R. and Udaya Sekhar Nagothu 13. Climate Mitigation and Adaptation: Institutional and Policy Support in India Solveig Kolberg and Udaya Sekhar Nagothu 14. Summary and Recommendations Udaya Sekhar Nagothu