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Adapting to climate change in Agriculture: Building resiliency with an effective policy frame in SAT India

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Title Adapting to climate change in Agriculture: Building resiliency with an effective policy frame in SAT India
 
Creator Singh, N P
Bantilan, M C S
Byjesh, K.
Murty, M V R
 
Subject Climate change
 
Description Climate change has emerged as the biggest threat
to livelihood sustainability of our times, posing
an imminent danger to our food security and a
challenge for improving agricultural productivity.
Presently, scientists are identifying and refi ning
the projections of future location specifi c climate
scenarios that farmers might have to deal with.
In India, annual mean surface air temperature
is projected to rise by 1.7°C to 2.0°C by 2030
(INCCA 2010). These projections further imply
that there can be a predicted decrease in rainy
days in most parts of the Indian subcontinent by
2030.
Climate Change projections for the coming 50
to 100 years are alarming. Indian agriculture
will have to face these climatic changes in the
coming decades. The semi-arid tropics (SAT) of
India already face multiple challenges of low and
uncertain rainfall, poor soil fertility, inadequate
infrastructure, high population pressure as well
as high levels of poverty. The future governments
of India must grapple with the changed climate
and associated productivity decline while at the
same time meeting the demands of increasing
productivity in order to feed the increasing
population.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5936/1/Policy%20Brief%2018.pdf
Singh, N P and Bantilan, M C S and Byjesh, K. and Murty, M V R (2012) Adapting to climate change in Agriculture: Building resiliency with an effective policy frame in SAT India. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.