Meet the editor

Dr. Saddam Hussain is an Assistant Professor in Plant Stress Physiology in the Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. He completed his Ph.D degree at the Huazhong Agricultural University, China. He has been recognized with several international distinctions/awards in recent years. He has published over 100 refereed journal papers (IF:>370, h-index: 29, citations:>3000), many of which have sought to understand the basis

of crop responses (rice in particular) to individual and concurrent abiotic stresses. He has devised promising strategies for improving the crop performance under sub-optimum conditions in the context of changing climatic optima, and he has suggested various novel indicators for augmenting stress tolerance in plants. He is also on the editorial board of several international journals.

Contents

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 35** Beitbridge Minority Farmer Communities and Climate Change: Prospects for

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 69**

**Chapter 6 83**

**Chapter 7 117**

**Chapter 8 137**

Sugarcane Production under Changing Climate: Effects of Environmental

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Agronomic Crops *by Ishfaq Ahmed, Asmat Ullah, M. Habib ur Rahman, Burhan Ahmad,* 

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Agricultural Sector: The Case

*by Muhammad Mumtaz, Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira and Saleem H. Ali*

*by Asmat Ullah, Ishfaq Ahmad, Habib-ur-Rehman, Umer Saeed, Ashfaq Ahmad,* 

Climate Stability and the Origin of Agriculture *by Joan Feynman and Alexander Ruzmaikin*

*Abid Mahmood and Gerrit Hoogenboom*

*by Mark Matsa and Beauty Dzawanda*

of Local Responses in Punjab, Pakistan

*by Surendra Kulshreshtha*

*Syed Aftab Wajid, Ashfaq Ahmad and Shakeel Ahmed*

Environment, Agriculture, and Land Use Pattern *by Saifullah Khan, Mehmood Ul Hassan and Aslam Khan*

Resiliency of Prairie Agriculture to Climate Change

Vulnerabilities on Sugarcane Diseases, Insects and Weeds *by Sadam Hussain, Abdul Khaliq, Umer Mehmood, Tauqeer Qadir, Muhammad Saqib, Muhammad Amjed Iqbal and Saddam Hussain*

Sustainability

Climate Smart Interventions of Small-Holder Farming Systems
