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Climate Smart Agriculture for Building Resilience and Improving Livelihoods in Rainfed Areas

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Title Climate Smart Agriculture for Building Resilience and Improving Livelihoods in Rainfed Areas
 
Creator Wani, S P
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Climate change
 
Description The biggest challenge, human kind facing in the 21st century is to
cope up with the impacts of the climate change which is affecting
the sustainable development globally. The IPCC (Inter
Governmental Panel on Climate Change) has clearly established
that climate change is reality now and going to affect food security
and sustainability in different regions (IPCC, 2013). Our
generation is the first generation to assess the impacts of the
climate change and also is the last generation which can do
interventions to minimize/reverse the climate change on the
globe. The dryland agriculture which is globally 80% and
contributes 60% of the food is the most vulnerable systems for the
impacts of the climate change. Dryland areas are also the hot-spots
of poverty in developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin
America and are more vulnerable to the adverse impacts of
climate change. In order to sustain the growth globally as well as
the livelihoods and achieve the goals of food and nutritional
security, there is an urgent need particularly in thickly populated
countries like India and China. In India, 58% of arable land is
dryland agriculture and will be severely affected as l/3rd of the
developing world will be facing physical scarcity of water by 2030
(Rockstorm et al., 2007). There is an urgent need to develop
climate smart agriculture by adopting appropriate adaptation and
mitigation strategies to build the resilience of the systems as well
as livelihoods for small farmholders in the country...
 
Publisher BS Publications
 
Contributor Devi Prasad, J
 
Date 2016
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9541/1/Chapter%208.pdf
Wani, S P (2016) Climate Smart Agriculture for Building Resilience and Improving Livelihoods in Rainfed Areas. In: Capacity Building for Climate Smart Agriculture. BS Publications, Hyderabad, pp. 129-132. ISBN 97893523009938