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Diversification and Land Use Management Practices for Food and Nutritional Security Under Climate Change Scenario in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of India

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Title Diversification and Land Use Management Practices for Food and Nutritional Security Under Climate Change Scenario in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of India
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Creator Prabhat Kumar Pankaj
 
Subject Integrated farming system - Gender - Livestock - Wasteland development - Nutrition - Food and nutrition security (FNS) - Intensification
 
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Arid and semi-arid regions cover more than 50% of the total geographical area
in India which is highly populated, water-limited with warm drylands. There
is an expectation that the area of drylands will expand under several scenarios
of climate change. Maintaining food and nutritional security in this growing
rural population of 265 million is a mammoth challenge in the near future. This
task can be taken by diversifying the existing scarce resources in a sustainable
manner as well as systematic land use management. Indian agriculture sector is
dominated by marginal and small farm holdings. Production intensification or
land diversification are the keys to agricultural sustainability. After achieving
food sustenance for the family, crop intensification/ diversification becomes the
mainstay for commercial agriculture. The traditional farming systems are self-contained
and show resilience to aberrant weather conditions but yield poorly.
An optimization of land usage into cropping, horticulture, livestock, forestry
with an objective of food and nutritional security along with profitability holds
the key for the future course of sustainable agriculture.
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Date 2021-08-25T04:32:57Z
2021-08-25T04:32:57Z
2020-05-01
 
Type Book chapter
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/60397
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland