{"title":"Climate Stability and the Origin of Agriculture","authors":"J. Feynman, A. Ruzmaikin","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.83344","url":null,"abstract":"Although modern man had developed long before the migration from Africa began ∼ 55,000 years ago, no agricultural societies developed until about ∼ 10,000 years ago. But in the next 5000 years, agricultures developed in several unrelated regions of the world. It was not a chance occurrence that new agricultures independently appeared in the same 5000 years. The question is what inhibited agriculture worldwide for 44,000 years and what changed ∼ 10,000 years ago? We suggest that a major factor influencing the development of agricultural societies was climate stability . From the experience of several independent cultures, we estimate that the development of agriculture needed about 2000 years of climate free from significant climate variations on time scales of a few centuries.","PeriodicalId":358697,"journal":{"name":"Climate Change and Agriculture","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134493344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate Change and Agriculture: A Historical Analysis","authors":"D. C. Uprety, V. Reddy, Jyostna Devi Mura","doi":"10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358697,"journal":{"name":"Climate Change and Agriculture","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126991144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate Resilient Agriculture","authors":"D. C. Uprety, V. Reddy, Jyostna Devi Mura","doi":"10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358697,"journal":{"name":"Climate Change and Agriculture","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131090395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crop Responses","authors":"D. C. Uprety, V. R. Reddy, Jyostna Devi Mura","doi":"10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358697,"journal":{"name":"Climate Change and Agriculture","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117232700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Greenhouse Gases: A Historical Perspective","authors":"D. C. Uprety, V. Reddy, Jyostna Devi Mura","doi":"10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358697,"journal":{"name":"Climate Change and Agriculture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115088450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical Analysis of Climate Change and Agriculture","authors":"D. C. Uprety, V. Reddy, Jyostna Devi Mura","doi":"10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358697,"journal":{"name":"Climate Change and Agriculture","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123492074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temperature Changes","authors":"D. C. Uprety, V. R. Reddy, Jyostna Devi Mura","doi":"10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2014-9_4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":358697,"journal":{"name":"Climate Change and Agriculture","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124046163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sadam Hussain, A. Khaliq, U. Mehmood, Tauqeer Qadir, M. Saqib, M. A. Iqbal, S. Hussain
{"title":"Sugarcane Production under Changing Climate: Effects of Environmental Vulnerabilities on Sugarcane Diseases, Insects and Weeds","authors":"Sadam Hussain, A. Khaliq, U. Mehmood, Tauqeer Qadir, M. Saqib, M. A. Iqbal, S. Hussain","doi":"10.5772/INTECHOPEN.81131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/INTECHOPEN.81131","url":null,"abstract":"Sugarcane is an important crop for bioenergy and sugar, contributing to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Pakistan. Global warming and increasing greenhouse gas emission result in the increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events. Temperature stress is a major environmental stress that limits the sugarcane growth, productivity and metabolism worldwide. Numerous biochemical reactions are involved in plant development, and these biochemical reactions are very sensitive to temperature stress. Now a day, temperature stress is a major concern for sugarcane production and approaches for high yield of sugarcane under temperature stress are important agriculture goals. Sugarcane plant adapts a number of acclimation and avoidance mechanism against different environmental stress. Plant survival under different stresses depends on ability to generate and transmit the signal and biochemical and physiological changes. In future, climate change is an important consequence for sugarcane production in the world because of its relative low adaptive capacity, poor forecasting system and high vulnerable to natural hazard. In this review we briefly describe climate change effects on sugarcane, sugar production in several countries especially in Pakistan, future challenges for sugar production under changing climatic scenario and propose strategies for mitigation negative impacts of climate change.","PeriodicalId":358697,"journal":{"name":"Climate Change and Agriculture","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120943796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}