Climate Smart Agriculture in South Asia Technologies, Policies and Institutions /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pal, Barun Deb (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kishore, Avinash (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Joshi, Pramod Kumar (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Tyagi, Narendra Kumar (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Agricultural economics.; Climate change.; Environmental policy.; Agricultural Economics.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Environmental Policy.

This book discusses various climate smart agro-technologies, their technical and economic feasibility across heterogeneous agro-climatic conditions, assessing farmers' willingness to adopt those technologies, impact of climate smart technology in agricultural production and possible policy and...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Two way association between agriculture and climate change
• Chapter 2: Prioritizing climate smart interventions across various agro-climatic region
• Chapter 3: Adoption of climate smart technologies in Indo-Gangetic Plain in South Asia
• Chapter 4: Role of Women in adoption of climate smart technologies and practices in drought prone zone
• Chapter 5: Were the past government policies climate smart? A review for South Asia
• Chapter 6: Insurance, compensation and institutions for climate smart agriculture
• Chapter 7: Prioritizing investment for climate smart agriculture - A Bio-Economic model
• Chapter 8: Climate smart agriculture - a need indeed for future agricultural development in South Asia. .