Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1: Foreword -- Overview of AgMIP work -- Understanding and assessing differences in climate sensitivity simulations of APSIM and DSSAT crop models -- Transforming agricultural farming systems: representative agricultural pathways for decision support -- Design and development of the AgMIP impacts explorer -- AgMIP regional integrated assessment high-level findings, methods, tools, and studies (2012-2017) -- Appendices: RIA Protocol v.7 -- Stakeholder engagement handbook -- AgMIP7 workshop report -- Part 2: Impact of agriculture intensification and climate change on the livelihoods of farmers in Nioro, Senegal, West Africa -- An integrated assessment of climate change impacts and adaptation in maize-based smallholder crop-livestock systems in Kenya -- Adoption and impacts of small-scale irrigation in Kenya's maize-based farm households -- Assessing the impact of climate change on the food baskets of Botswana and South Africa -- Transforming smallholder crop-livestock systems in the face of climate change: stakeholder driven multi-model research in semi-arid Zimbabwe -- Development of climate change adaptation strategies for cotton-wheat cropping system of Punjab Pakistan -- Integrated assessment of climate change impacts on rice-wheat farms of IGP-India through multi climate-crop model approach -- a case study of Meerut District, Uttar Pradesh, India -- Assessment of impacts of climate change on maize-rice farming system in Trichy District, Tamil Nadu, India -- Regional integrated assessment of climate change impacts on the rainfed farming system in Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India -- Latin America -- Moving forward to national scale.

"This two-part handbook focuses on the work that the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) accomplished using a new method -- the AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment Protocol -- in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA), with funding from the UK Department for International Development. Through this research, AgMIP substantially improves the characterization and understanding of food security in SSA and SA and how its affected by climate variability and change. The chapters in this handbook demonstrate how AgMIP has enhanced the capacity of developing country researchers and stakeholders to work together, exploring and prioritizing adaptation to current and future climate stresses. Part 1 describes regional integrated assessment methods and analyses, while Part 2 presents the outcomes of farming system studies. The entire volume shows how AgMIP has established, as a public good, protocols for Regional Integrated Assessments that improve the capability of developing countries to address climate change challenges"-- Publisher's website.

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