Increasing Climate Variability and Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of Agriculture and Forestry

This book reviews the latest assessments of climate variability and climate change, and their impacts on agriculture and forestry, and recommends appropriate adaptation strategies for reducing the vulnerability of agriculture and forestry to climate variability and climate change. Among other solutions, the text offers management strategies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from different agroecosystems, and proposes the use of seasonal climate forecasts to reduce climate risk.

Jim Salinger is a senior climate researcher. As a leading climate change expert, he has been involved in researching and monitoring past and current climate trends, as a university climate researcher, and later in the former New Zealand Meteorological Service.

Shiv Sivakumar is a senior scientist at the World Meteorological Organisation.

Raymond Motha is Chief Meteorologist of The World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB).