L’agriculture doit faire face à de nombreux défis. Parmi eux, le changement climatique constitue une préoccupation majeure pour le devenir de l’humanité, avec des enjeux pour la sécurité alimentaire, l’environnement, la biodiversité et la santé. L’élevage et les pratiques culturales sont fortement affectés par l’évolution du climat et contribuent de manière significative aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre. L’urgence est donc d’adapter les systèmes de culture et d’élevage pour les rendre...

Climate change is a key threat to agriculture. Modelling is fundamental to assessing its potential impacts. This collection summarises the wealth of research on improving climate impact models and their use in assessing impacts on different regions.Modelling climate change impacts on agricultural systems reviews research on developing models in areas such as improving data flows, incorporating genetic information and dealing with uncertainty. This collecti...

This book gathers review articles that analyze current agricultural issues and knowledge, then propose alternative solutions. It will therefore help all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians who wish to build a safe agriculture, energy and food system for future generations.

Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Starving people in poor nations, obesity in rich nations, increasing food prices, on-going climate changes, increasing fuel and transportation costs, flaws of the global market, worldwide pesticide pollution, pest adaptation and resistance, loss of soil fertility and organic carbon, soil erosion, decreasing biodiversity, desertific...