Climate Change and Food Security in West Asia and North Africa (eBook)

Part I Climate Change in West Asia and North Africa1 Climate Change in West Asia and North Africa (WANA): Overview; Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, Alex C. Ruane, and Jose Camacho2 Implications of Climate Change for Agriculture and Food Security in the Western Asia and Northern Africa Region; Ramasamy SelvarajuPart II Climate Change and Environment3 Climate Change and Soil Quality in the WANA Region; Rattan Lal4 Conserving Green and Blue Water in the WANA Region; Hamed Daly-Hassen, Yves Birot, Carlos Gracia and Marc Palahi5 Climate Change and Land Use in the WANA Region with a Specific Reference to Morocco; Mostafa Ibrahim and Rattan Lal6 Responses of Insect Pests to Climate Change: Effects and Interactions of Temperature, CO2 on Soil Quality; Vanessa L. Muilenberg and Daniel A. Herms7 Climate Change and Locusts in the WANA Region; Keith CressmanPart III Climate Change and Food Security: Perspectives from WANA Sub-Regions8 Climate Change Impact on WANA: Key Researchable Issues and Proposed Measures; Ibrahim Hamdan and Susanna Smets9 Climate Variability and Change in North African Countries; F. Driouech, S. Ben Rached, T. El Heirech10 Climate Change in Drylands of the Eastern Mediterranean: from Assessment Methods to Adaptation Strategies; E. De Pauw and W. Göbel11 Climate Change and Food Security in the Nile Valley and Red Sea; Ayman F. Abou Hadid12 Food Security and Climate Change in West Asia; Ibrahim Ortas and Rattan LalPart IV Mitigation and Adaptation Options for Different Agroeconomic Sectors in WANA13 Mitigation and Adaptation Options for Rainfed Agriculture in West Asia and North Africa; Awni Taimeh14 Mitigation and Adaptation Options of Climate Change in Irrigated Agriculture in Arab Countries; Dia El-Din El Quosy15 Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Options for the Livestock Sector in the West Asia and North Africa; Markos Tibbo and Jeannette van de Steeg16 Afforestation Potential in the WANA Region to Sequester Carbon and Improve Soil Quality; Roger A. WilliamsPart V Policy, Financial, Institutional and Cooperation Issues17 Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change into the Development Agenda; Nasri Haddad and Kamel Shideed18 Possible Financial Innovations and Market Mechanisms at the National Level to Cope with Climate Change in WANA Region; S.V.R.K. Prabhakar19 Economic Impacts of Climate Change in the Arab World: A Summary of Case Studies from Syria, Tunisia and Yemen; Clemens Breisinger, Perrihan Al-Riffai and Manfred Wiebelt20 Human Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation: Factors that Influence Behaviours; Eric Toman and Richard MoorePart VI Regional Agricultural Adaptation and Mitigation Framework for Climate Change in WANA21 Regional Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the WANA Region; Ghassan Hamdallah22 Adaptation Strategies for Different Sectors in the WANA Region – Summaries of Breakout Group Discussions; Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, Faisal Awawdeh, Nasri Haddad, Ibrahim Hamdan, Mark Holderness, Rattan Lal, Ibrahim Ortas, and Selvaraju RamasamyPart VII Conference Declaration23 Kuwait Declaration