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Corrected tables for publication AG-236, Growing degree days in North Carolina, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service. by North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service.(CARDINAL)164866;
Subjects: Crops and climate; Meteorology, Agricultural;
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Hot, hungry planet : the fight to stop a global food crisis in the face of climate change / by Palmer, Lisa,1973-author.(CARDINAL)410703;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index.Introduction: The fight to close the food gap -- Women's work -- Soils, sylvan pastures, and sustainability -- California and Syria: a tale of two droughts -- Population, health, and environment powerfully working together -- India's climate-smart villages -- Climate stupid -- Rice -- Hot fish -- Small and sustainable."Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050 according to U.N. predictions. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting the food gap. Here, she shares the story of the epic journey to solve the imperfect relationship between two of our planet's greatest challenges: climate change and global hunger. Hot, Hungry Planet focuses on three key concepts that support food security and resilience in a changing world: social, educational, and agricultural advances; land use and technical actions by farmers; and policy nudges that have the greatest potential for reducing adverse environmental impacts of agriculture while providing more food. Palmer breaks down this difficult subject though seven concise and easily-digestible case studies over the globe and presents the stories of individuals in six key regions-India, sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Indonesia-painting a hopeful picture of both the world we want to live in and the great leaps it will take to get there" --
Subjects: Food security.; Crops and climate.; Climatic changes;
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Climate change and agriculture : joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture and the Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, April 19, 1989. by United States.Congress.House.Committee on Agriculture.Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture.(CARDINAL)271640; United States.Congress.House.Committee on Agriculture.Subcommittee on Forests, Family Farms, and Energy.(CARDINAL)267488;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Climatic changes.; Crops and climate.; Meteorology, Agricultural;
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Crushed : how a changing climate is altering the way we drink / by Freedman, Brian,1977-author.(CARDINAL)861797;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Climate change is altering how wines are spirits are produced around the world. From unimaginably destructive fires in California to historically unprecedented deep-freezes in Texas and rising temperatures that are lifting England to the forefront of the world of sparkling wine, these are the stories of eight regions confronting it all head on"--
Subjects: Wine and wine making; Crops and climate.; Alcoholic beverage industry.;
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Growing food in a hotter, drier land : lessons from desert farmers on adapting to climate uncertainty / by Nabhan, Gary Paul.(CARDINAL)164856;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Getting a grip on climate change: crossing the threshold into chronic climatic disruption of food security -- Seeking inspiration and solutions from the time-tried strategies found in the world's deserts -- Will harvest rain and organic matter for food: catching runoff as conventionally irrigated agriculture collapses -- Bringing water home to the root zone: getting more efficient at irrigation delivery -- Breaking the fever: reducing heat stress in crops and livestock -- Increasing the moisture-holding capacity and microbial diversity of food-producing soils -- Forming a fruit and nut guild that can take the heat -- When terraces are edged with succulents and herbaceous perennials -- Getting out of the drought: intercropping quick-maturing vegetables and grains in placed-based polycultures -- Getting in sync: keeping pollinators in pace and in place with arid-adapted crop plants.
Subjects: Arid regions agriculture.; Crops and climate.; Climatic changes.;
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Diet for a hot planet : the climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it / by Lappé, Anna,1973-(CARDINAL)662234;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-291) and index.Discusses the effects of transporting food on the climate, how the food industry is becoming aware of its part in global warming, the emerging solutions from farmers, and the seven principles for a climate-friendly diet.
Subjects: Climatic changes; Crops and climate.; Food;
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Diet for a hot planet : the climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do about it / by Lappé, Anna,1973-(CARDINAL)662234;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285) and index.The climate crisis at the end of our fork -- The shape of things to come -- Blinded by the bite -- Playing with our food -- Capitalizing on climate change -- Cool food: five ingredients of climate-friendly farming -- Myth-informed: answering the critics -- The hunger scare -- The biotech ballyhoo -- Eat the sky: seven principles of a climate-friendly diet -- Beyond the fork.
Subjects: Crops and climate.; Food; Climatic changes;
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Annual report of the Meteorological Division of the N.C. Agricultural Experiment Station, constituting the N.C. State Weather Service. by North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station.Meteorological Division.;
Vol. for 1889 called the 3rd annual report.
Subjects: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. Meteorological Division; Crops and climate; Meteorology, Agricultural;
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Seeds of resistance : the fight to save our food supply / by Schapiro, Mark,1955-author.(CARDINAL)522693; Talbot, David,1951-author of foreword.(CARDINAL)506151;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-155) and index.Foreword / by David Talbot -- Introduction: seeds & canaries -- A seed chronicle foretold -- Genetic vulnerability: how we got here -- Seeds, Inc. -- Acts of man: the genetic co-existence conundrum -- Genetic roulette: engineering the seed -- Seed rebels -- Postcards from the paradigm shift -- Seeds: the elephant and the acorn."Ten thousand years after humans figured out how to stop wandering and plant crops, veteran investigative journalist Mark Schapiro plunges into the struggle already underway for control of seeds, the ground-zero ingredient for our food. Three quarters of the seed varieties on Earth in 1900 had become extinct by 2015. In Seeds of Resistance, Schapiro takes us onto the frontlines of a struggle over the seeds that remain, one that will determine the long-term security of our food supply in the face of unprecedented climate volatility. Schapiro reveals how more than half of all commercially-traded seeds have fallen under the control of just three multinational agri-chemical companies. At just the time when scientists tell us we need a spectrum of options to respond to climatic changes, thousands of seed varieties are being taken off the market and replaced by the companies' genetically engineered or crack-baby seeds, addicted to chemical pesticides and herbicides from the day they are planted. Schapiro dives deep into the rapidly growing movement in the United States and around the world to defy these trends and assert autonomy over locally-bred seeds--seeds which are showing high levels of resilience to the onrushing and accelerating impacts of climate change."--
Subjects: Agricultural industries; Crops and climate.; Food supply; Seeds;
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The carbon farming solution : a global toolkit of perennial crops and regenerative agriculture practices for climate change mitigation and food security / by Toensmeier, Eric,author.(CARDINAL)469941; Herren, Hans Rudolf,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-446) and index.Climate realities -- Agricultural climate change mitigation and adaptation -- Carbon sequestration potentials -- Agroforestry and perennial crops -- A multifunctional solution -- Annual cropping systems -- Livestock systems -- Perennial cropping systems -- Additional tools -- Introduction to species -- Introduction to perennial staple crops -- Basic starch crops -- Balanced carbohydrate crops -- Protein crops -- Protein-oil crops -- Edible oil crops -- Sugar crops -- Industrial crops : materials, chemicals, and energy -- Biomass crops -- Industrial starch crops -- Industrial oil crops -- Hydrocarbon crops -- Fiber crops -- Other industrial uses -- A three-point plan to scale up carbon farming -- Support farmers and farming organizations to make the transition -- Effectively finance carbon farming -- Remove national and international policy barriers -- Strategic next steps -- Appendix A. Global species matrix -- Appendix B. Clean dry weight yield calculations -- Appendix C. Carbon sequestration rates -- Appendix D. Changes in Latin names.The term 'carbon farming' is used to describe a suite of crops and agricultural practices that sequester carbon in the soil. If widely implemented, these practices have the capacity to sequester hundreds of billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere in the coming decades. Combined with a massive global reduction in fossil fuel emissions, it can bring us back from the brink of disaster and return our atmosphere to the 'magic number' of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide. These practices can also feed people, build more fertile soils, and contribute to ecosystem health.
Subjects: Alternative agriculture.; Carbon sequestration.; Climate change mitigation.;
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