Improving Crop Adaptation to Climate Change through Strategic Crossing of Stress Adaptive Traits

Adaptation of Boreal Field Crop Production to Climate Change

Informal Sources of Financing Climate Change Adaptation amongst Crop Farmers in Nigeria

The study examined the sources of informal finance in aiding climate change adaptation in South eastern Nigeria. Random sampling was adopted in the selection of 6 out of the 9 communities in the study area. From each of these selected communities, 10 crop farmers were randomly selected giving a total number of 60 respondents. Descriptive statistics such as percentages and frequency, as well as ...

Crop productivity and adaptation to climate change in Pakistan

How effective adaptation practices in response to climate change are is a crucial question confronting farmers across the world. Using detailed plot-level data from a specifically designed survey conducted in 2013, this paper investigates whether there are productive benefits for farmers who adapt to climate change in Pakistan. The impact of implementing on-farm adaptation strategies is estimat...

Induced Mutations for Traits that Affect Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Adaptation to Climate Change

By the availability of various mutant resources in Arabidopsis, it is now possible to investigate mutant lines for almost every gene. Arabidopsis is then, not only a model plant for plant research, but also a model species in which it is possible to carry out " saturation mutagenesis " for all genes, and to totally analyze each gene and mutant of one organism. One of the future goals of the " p...

Climate change adaptation in crop production: Beware of illusions

A primary goal of studying climate change adaptation is to estimate the net impacts of climate change. Many potential changes in agricultural management and technology, including shifts in crop phenology and improved drought and heat tolerance, would help to improve crop productivity but do not necessarily represent true adaptations. Here the importance of retaining a strict definition of adapt...