Accelerating Drought Resilience Through Innovative Technologies
Author: Laurene Park
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 364
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The Drought-Resilient Farm
Author: Dale Strickler
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Published: 2018-06-12
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1635860024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRainfall levels are rarely optimal, but there are hundreds of things you can do to efficiently conserve and use the water you do have and to reduce the impact of drought on your soil, crops, livestock, and farm or ranch ecosystem. Author Dale Strickler introduces you to the same innovative systems he used to transform his own drought-stricken family farm in Kansas into a thriving, water-wise, and profitable enterprise, maximizing healthy cropland, pasture, and water supply. Ranging from simple, short-term projects such as installing rain-collection ollas to long-term land-management planning strategies, Strickler’s methods show how to get more water into the soil, keep it in the soil, and help plants and livestock access it.
Enabling pathways for drought finance in agriculture
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2023-08-30
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9251380996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough risk-based approaches to disaster management are particularly effective, the rapid start-up of risk financing is hardly conceivable in the case of a drought that has been grossly underfinanced. Even if existing resources are spent more effectively, the gap far exceeds the active finance flows. Creating an enabling environment for the financial sector is the first step to intensifying investments, and it must be done by aligning the interest of the involved actors, including public and private stakeholders, the development and scientific community, and the impacted sectors. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the structural particularities and the status of drought finance. It lines up pathways to stimulate the financial environment by proposing innovative strategies, in other words, enabling pathways. It responds to the pressing concern of what innovative instruments and strategies should be used to make drought finance attractive for all sectors. The goal is to roll out larger-scale programmes to enable drought financing to yield a good return, thus supporting the efforts of the global community to build drought resilience through increased finance flows.By providing pragmatic steps towards the acceleration of drought finance, the publication contributes to several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDGs 1, 2, 5, 6, 13, 15 and 17. It is in line with the objectives of the FAO Strategic Framework, namely, it addresses the objective of the Better Production to ensure “resilient and sustainable agrifood systems”, and the objective of the Better Life to promote “inclusive economic growth by reducing inequalities”.
Utilizing Innovative Technologies to Address the Public Health Impact of Climate Change: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Author: Weiss-Randall, Debra
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2017-09-20
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1522534156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate change impacts the wellbeing of societies across the entire globe. By utilizing innovative technologies, public health can be better protected in the years to come. Utilizing Innovative Technologies to Address the Public Health Impact of Climate Change: Emerging Research and Opportunities presents an ambitious examination on the implementation of technology to mitigate and create resilience against the impacts of climate change. Highlighting a range of topics such as water management, vulnerable populations, and disaster risk analysis, this book is ideally designed for academics, students, researchers, and professionals interested in emerging progress in climate change protection.
Handbook of Drought and Water Scarcity
Author: Saeid Eslamian
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2017-07-20
Total Pages: 761
ISBN-13: 1351851160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume includes over 30 chapters, written by experts from around the world. It examines the environmental aspects of drought such as groundwater and soil contamination, river low-flow, urban water quality, and desertification. It also examines the effects of climate change and variability on drought, and discusses the differences in groundwater, rainfall, and temperatures and their related effects. It presents analytical modeling for better understanding drought in uncertain and changing climates.
Building a Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Abebe Shimeles
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-06-01
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 3319762222
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are the challenges and action points for agricultural sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa? This open access collection of papers offers technical analyses, policy recommendations and an overview of success stories to date. Each carefully selected paper provides valuable insights for improved policy making and defines relevant strategic priorities on Africa’s sustainable transformation process, which is in line with the international development agenda. Although agriculture remains the main source of income for Africa’s population, the sector is rain-fed subjecting it to the vagaries of weather and climate change. This volume demonstrates the rationale of developing a competitive, inclusive and sustainable agribusiness sector for Africa’s food security and structural transformation. From the impact of Bioenergy crop adoption and Drought Index Insurance to Agro-Industrialization, this volume is important reading for individual researchers, academic associations and professional bodies interested in African agricultural development.
Proceedings of the 4th Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction
Author: Hirokazu Tatano
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-01-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9811955662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents selected papers by the keynote speakers and other presenters from various disciplines and includes their opinions and evaluations. The Fourth Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction (4th GSRIDRR, 2019): Increasing the Effectiveness and Relevance of our Institutes, sponsored by the Global Alliance of Disaster Research Institutes (GADRI) and Kyoto University, was hosted by and held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus, Kyoto, Japan, 13–15 March 2019.. The Global Summit series provided a platform for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and other stakeholders in both government and non-governmental institutes involved in disaster risk reduction and resilience to come together to discuss, share, and exchange ideas. It focuses specifically on contributing input to the contextualization and revision of the goals of the 2016 Science and Technology Roadmap to implementation of the Priority Areas of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Agenda 2015–2030, with input for GADRI to move forward in its contributions to the worldwide science community. The conference comprised an impressive array of global stakeholders whose expertise and experience encompassed the management of knowledge and its application for governments and industries, with shared outcomes to bridge science and decision making. It enhanced a process to confront new scientific challenges in disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management. The conference accomplished the following major goals, among others: (1) engagement in dialogue on issues related to disaster prevention and contributions to the Science and Technology Roadmap adopted to support the implementation of the Sendai Framework Agenda 2015–2030; (2) evaluation of current efforts on global and national involvement in the field of disaster prevention research in relation to the implementation of the Priority Areas of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030; (3) assessment of the status of current research knowledge and efforts, and research results at the institutional level in each country.
Financing Climate Futures Rethinking Infrastructure
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-11-28
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9264308113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report is a joint effort by the OECD, UN Environment and the World Bank Group, supported by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. It focuses on how governments can move beyond the current incremental approach to climate action.
Net Zero+ Climate and Economic Resilience in a Changing World
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2023-05-16
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9264868798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report provides a synthesis of the OECD Net Zero+ project, covering the first phase of an ongoing, cross-cutting initiative, representing a major step forward for an OECD whole-of-government approach to climate policy.
Climate-Resilient Agriculture
Author: Ashutosh Singh
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2024-07-05
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 1000988554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeveloping climate-smart crops is vital to securing food security around the world. This new book discusses the state-of-the-art technologies that can help to mitigate plant abiotic stresses in cultivated crops. It covers the current aspects of climate-resilience agriculture, including the crucial physiological, biochemical, and molecular aspects of cultivated crops under stress conditions, which play a pivotal role in developing climate-smart crops. The volume explores breeding, omics, genetic engineering, bioengineering of metabolic pathways, artificial intelligence, and more. Key features: Addresses the current and future challenges of climate changes on food security Details the impact of different biotic, abiotic stresses, along with their interactions and effect on crop plants in climate-changing scenarios Gives a comprehensive account of molecular mechanisms associated with different stresses in crop plants Discusses advances in breeding and biotechnological techniques to tackle the different stresses in challenging climatic fluctuations Highlights various emerging approaches and technologies currently being used in developing climate-smart crops Provides success stories of crop improvement against the different stresses.
