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Klappentext Climate effects on agriculture are of increasing concern in both the scientific and policy communities because of the growing population and the greater uncertainty in the weather during growing seasons. Changes in production are directly linked to variations in temperature and precipitation during the growing season and often to the offseason changes in weather because of soil water storage to replenish the soil profile. This is not an isolated problem but one of worldwide interest because each country has concerns about their food security.The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) was developed to evaluate agricultural models and intercompare their ability to predict climate impacts. In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, South America and East Asia, AgMIP regional research teams (RRTs) are conducting integrated assessments to improve understanding of agricultural impacts of climate change (including biophysical and economic impacts) at national and regional scales. Other AgMIP initiatives include global gridded modeling, data and information technology (IT) tool development, simulation of crop pests and diseases, site-based crop-climate sensitivity studies, and aggregation and scaling. Zusammenfassung "Joint Publication with the American Society of Agronomy! Crop Science Society of America! and Soil Science Society of America." Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Part 1: Overview of AgMIP: Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project: Phase I Activities by a Global Community of Science; Methods of Regional Integrated Assessments: AgMIP's Trans-disciplinary Approach to Regional Integrated Assessment of Climate Impact, Vulnerability, and Adaptation of Agricultural Systems; AgMIP Climate Datasets and Scenarios for Integrated Assessment; Crop Systems Modeling in AgMIP: A New Protocol-driven Approach for Regional Integrated Assessments; Representative Agricultural Pathways and Scenarios for Regional Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impact, Vulnerability, and Adaptation; Data Interoperability Tools for Regional Integrated Assessments; Global Estimates of Climate Impacts on Agriculture: The Ag-GRID Global Gridded Crop Model Intercomparison (GGCMI); The AgMIP Coordinated Climate-Crop Modeling Project (C3MP): Methods and Protocols; Building AgMIP Science: Uncertainty in Agricultural Impact Assessment; Uncertainties in Scaling up Crop Models for Large Area Climate Change Impact Assessments; Statistical Analysis of Large Simulated Yield Datasets for Studying Climate Change Effect; Crop Diseases and Climate Change in the AgMIP Framework; Conclusion: Major Findings and Future ActivitiesPart 2: Introduction; Sub-Saharan Africa: Perspectives on Climate Effects on Agriculture: The International Efforts of AgMIP in Sub-Saharan Africa; Climate Change Impacts on West African Agriculture: An Integrated Regional Assessment (CIWARA); Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agricultural Systems in Eastern Africa; Projected Impacts of Climate Change Scenarios on the Production of Maize in Southern Africa: An Integrated Assessment Case Study of the Bethlehem District, Central Free State, South Africa; Crop-livestock Intensification in the Face of Climate Change: Exploring Opportunities to Reduce Risk and Increase Resilience In Southern Africa Using an Integrated Multi-Modeling Approach; South Asia: Integrated Assessments of the Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture: An Overview of AgMIP Regional Research in South Asia; Impact of Climate Change on the Rice-Wheat Cropping System of Pakistan; Integrated Climate Change Assessment through Linking Crop Simulation with Economic Modeling - Preliminary Results from the Indo-Gangetic Basin; Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Maize and Farm Household Incomes in Southern India: a Case Study from Tamil Nadu; Climate Change Impacts on Rice Farming Systems in Northwestern Sri Lanka; Other AgMIP Reg...
