Climate Change and Soil-Water-Plant Nexus

The edited book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of scientific developments in agricultural sustainability under changing climate conditions. It focuses on the linkages among soil, water, and crops and their management options to maintain soil health and ensure a sustainable crop production environment. The book addresses the scenarios and challenges of agricultural sustainability in the face of climatic change.

With increasing pressure on our limited land and water resources to produce higher crop yields for a growing global population, the efficient use of soil, water, and fertilizers is crucial for achieving most of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book presents climate change mitigation and adaptation options to help achieve these SDGs. It highlights the impact of climate variability on agricultural production and the functions of ecosystems, emphasizing the importance of developing climate-resilient agriculture to sustain food production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The book explores the soil-water-plant nexus and its response to changing climate, characterizing seasonal and inter-annual climatic variability in crop growth and yield. Different chapters evaluate the effects of climate change on soil health degradation, depletion of soil nutrients and carbon contents, and crop responses to climate variability.

This book is of interest to academicians, researchers, scientists, capacity builders, and policymakers. Extension personnel will benefit from its insights, and it serves as valuable supporting material for graduate students of agriculture, forestry, ecology, soil science, and environmental sciences in understanding and designing their own research.

Prof. Md. Mizanur Rahman of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University completed MS and PhD from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Beyond teaching, he supervised 12 PhD students and over 85 MS students in different areas of soil, environment and crop science. He has completed several national and international funded research projects as a Principal/Co-Principal Investigator. Currently, Prof. Rahman is serving as one of the Principal Investigators of the UKRI GCRF South Asian Nitrogen Hub (SANH) and SANH Lead in Bangladesh, Deputy Coordinator of Modeling Climate Change project of Krishi Gobeshona Foundation (KGF), and Focal Point of the USAID funded ‘Feed the Future Bangladesh Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) Activity Project’. He is keen to research carbon sequestration, reactive nitrogen, global warming and climate change, waste management, nutrient recycling, soil fertility management, arsenic mitigation, soil and environmental pollution etc. Prof. Rahman is involved with different professional and social societies as a Life Member. He has published 126 research articles in renowned international and national journals and 5 book chapters.

Jatish Chandra Biswas is a researcher who worked with Bangladesh Rice Research Institute and Krishi Gobeshona Foundation. The Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh and the University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines shaped his career. He is the author of several books, booklets, and book chapters, and has published about 100 scientific articles in national and international journals. He is the second most cited researcher of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute.

Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena is working in the Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU, Varanasi (UP). Dr. Meena has secured first division in all the classes with triple NET, JRF, and SRF from the ICAR and RGNF Awardee from the UGC, GOI. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS) and the National Academy of Biological Sciences (FNABS) and Fellow Society for Rapeseed-Mustard Research. He was a visiting scientist at IRRI-ISARC under an INSA fellowship. Dr. Meena has been awarded the Raman Research Fellowship by the Ministry of Education, GOI. He has been listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists by the Stanford University, USA, and Elsevier report. He has experience with ten externally funded projects as PI/Co-PI, including running projects from IoE, BHU, SERB-DST, ICAR, MOE, GOI. He has the right to one patent on low-cost biochar preparation. Dr. Meena has published more than 120 international research and review papers in peer-reviewed reputed journals with an H-index of 63, an I-10 index of 173, citations over 12,000 and a total impact factor of 398.37, with the highest 16 and average of 3.9 impact factor. He has published 30 books and contributed 95 chapters. His research interest is to reduce soil organic carbon oxidation and enhance stability in agroecosystems for farmers' benefit through carbon credits.