Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems

This two-part handbook focuses on the work that the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) accomplished using a new method — the AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Protocol — in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA), with funding from the UK Department for International Development. Through this research, AgMIP substantially improves the characterization and understanding of food security in SSA and SA and how its affected by climate variability and change.

The chapters in this handbook demonstrate how AgMIP has enhanced the capacity of developing country researchers and stakeholders to work together, exploring and prioritizing adaptation to current and future climate stresses. Part 1 describes regional integrated assessment methods and analyses, while Part 2 presents the outcomes of farming system studies. The entire volume shows how AgMIP has established, as a public good, protocols for Regional Integrated Assessments that improve the capability of developing countries to address climate change challenges.

• Press Release - Scientists and Stakeholders Work Together to Help Farmers Respond to Climate Change

• Potential Impacts of Agricultural Intensification and Climate Change on the Livelihoods of Farmers in Nioro, Senegal, West Africa (Dilys S MacCarthy, Ibrahima Hathie, Bright S Freduah, Mouhamed Ly, Myriam Adam, Amoudou Ly, Andree Nenkam, Pierre S Traore, and Roberto O Valdivia)
• An Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Maize-Based Smallholder Crop–Livestock Systems in Kenya (Lieven Claessens, Roberto O Valdivia, Sridhar Gummadi, Mary Kilavi, John Recha, Caleb Dickson, and John M Antle)
• Adoption and Impacts of Small-Scale Irrigation in Kenya's Maize-Based Farm Households (Roshan Adhikari, John M Antle, and Keith Wiebe)
• Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on the Staple Baskets of Botswana and South Africa (Wiltrud Durand, Davide Cammarano, Olivier Crespo, Thembeka Mpusaing, Hlamalani Ngwenya, Andries Fourie, and Weldemichael A Tesfuhuney)
• Transforming Smallholder Crop–Livestock Systems in the Face of Climate Change: Stakeholder-Driven Multi-Model Research in Semi-Arid Zimbabwe (Sabine Homann-Kee Tui, Patricia Masikati, Katrien Descheemaeker, Gevious Sisito, Buhle Francis, Trinity Senda, Olivier Crespo, Elisha N Moyo, and Roberto O Valdivia)
• Development of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for Cotton–Wheat Cropping System of Punjab Pakistan (Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Ashfaq, Ghulam Rasul, Syed Aftab Wajid, Ishfaq Ahmad, Tasneem Khaliq, Javaria Nasir, Fahd Rasul, Farah Riaz, Burhan Ahmad, Shakeel Ahmad, Irfan Ahmad Baig, Roberto O Valdivia, and Gerrit Hoogenboom)
• Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Rice–Wheat Farms of IGP-India through Multi-Climate-Crop Model Approach: A Case Study of Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India (Nataraja Subash, Harbir Singh, Sohan Vir Singh, Mohar Singh Meena, Balwinder Singh, Gokul Prasad Paudel, Guillermo Baigorria, Suryanarayana Bhaskar, Azad Singh Panwar, Sonali P McDermid, and Roberto O Valdivia)
• Assessment of Impacts of Climate Change on the Maize–Rice Farming System in Trichy District, Tamil Nadu, India (Geethalakshmi Vellingiri, Lakshmanan Arunachalam, Gowtham Ramasamy, Bhuvaneswari Kul anthaivel,Ramaraj Ammapet Palanisamy, Manikandan Narayanaswamy, Sonali McDermid, Swamikannu Nedumaran, Kadiyala Dakshina Murthy, and Roberto O Valdivia)
• Regional Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on the Rainfed Farming System in Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India (Swamikannu Nedumaran, Kadiyala Dakshina Murthy, P Jyosthnaa, Roberto O Valdivia, Sonali McDermid, Srinivasa Reddy Srigiri, Geethalakshmi Vellingiri, and Anthony Whitbread)
• Integrated Modeling under a Changing Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean: Bridging the Gaps between Supply and Demand of Information for Decision-Making (Kelly Witkowski, Roberto O Valdivia, Daniela Medina, and Francisco Meza)
• Moving to National Scale (Cynthia Rosenzweig, John M Antle, Alex C Ruane, Carolyn Z Mutter, Malgosia Madajewicz, Roberto O Valdivia, Gerrit Hoogenboom, Cheryl Porter, Keith Wiebe, Sander Janssen, and Erik Mencos Contreras)