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Climatic conditions are projected to affect food security from the local to the global level. And current predictions of climate change require immediate action toward adaptation and mitigation projects that will be accompanied by sustainable development in the agricultural sector. This book talks about coping with climate change for the agricultural sector. 

Introduction: Highlights the need for diagnostics on impact, vulnerability and resilience patterns

Chapter 2: Studies the impacts of climate change on agriculture and sets a baseline of adaptive capacity in a country

Chapter 3: Details the laws of ecology and their relevance to policy-makers during the development of mitigation and adaptation strategies

Chapter 4: It gives suggestions on what can be done at the national level 

Chapter 5: It lists short-term and long-term policy options

Read more: Coping with a changing climate: considerations for adaptation and mitigation in agriculture : http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1315e/i1315e00.htm