Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adapting crops to climate change: a summary / Matthew P. Reynolds and Rodomiro Ortiz -- Scenarios of climate change within the context of agriculture / Andy Jarvis ... [et al.] -- Economic impacts of climate change on agriculture to 2030 / David Lobell and Marshall Burke -- Preventing potential disease and pest epidemics under a changing climate / Anne Legreve and Etienne Duveiller -- Breeding for adaptation to heat and drought stress / Matthew P. Reynolds, Dirk Hays and Scott Chapman -- Breeding crops for tolerance to salinity, waterlogging and inundation / Daniel J. Mullan and Edward G. Barrett-Lennard -- Multi-location testing as a tool to identify plant response to global climate change / Hans-Joachim Braun, Gary Atlin and Thomas Payne -- Genetic approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: increasing carbon capture and decreasing environmental impact / Martin A.J. Parry and Malcom J. Hawkesford -- Greenhouse gas mitigation in the main cereal systems: rice, wheat and maize / Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio ... [et al.] -- How conservation agriculture can contribute to buffering climate change / Peter R. Hobbs and Bram Govaerts -- Management of resident soil microbial community structure and function to suppress soilborne disease development / Mark Mazzola -- Biotechnology in agriculture / Ryan Whiford, Michael Gilbert and Peter Langridge -- GIS and crop simulation modeling applications in climate change research / David Hodson and Jeffrey White -- Statistical models for studying and understanding genotype x environment interaction in an era of climate change and increased genetic information / José Crossa, Juan Burgueno and Mateo Vargas.