Global warming

Climate Resilient Agriculture

Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies

by Manish Bhan, Vijay Singh Tomar, Kamal Kishore Agarwal, Sahib Singh Tomar & Sunil Dutta Upadhyaya

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Climate is a vital factor that influences land use, crop quality, its productivity as well as all the other of agricultural systems. The significant impact of climate change is visible on human societies and natural ecosystems around the world. This impact will be more severe on agriculture if global warming continues. As per estimates of IPCC (2014), the agriculture, forestry and other land use contributes 24% of global greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions need to be reduced to avoid the serious impact of climate change using mitigation measures and adaptation strategies. Currently, unreliable and seasonal variations in weather have emerged as a serious challenge for sustainability influencing vegetation, biodiversity, livestock, soil, water, and other natural resources. In the last decade, more occurrence of extreme weather events affected farming community directly in their agricultural growth. The matter is of great concern to country like India, which require more produce from rainfed fields and shrinking crop land. To understand the problems occurring due to climate change, concerted efforts are required for mitigation and adaptation to reduce the vulnerability of rainfed agriculture and making it resilient. Agricultural output as well as the livelihood of people who depend on it, are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and it is important that we assess adaptation mechanisms to reduce these vulnerabilities. These practices should play a vital role to reduce GHG emissions by improving efficiency of farm inputs and others like agroforestry interventions for green agricultural technologies. Similarly, adoption of conservation agriculture, suitable cultivars, changing sowing dates, irrigation scheduling, and recycling waste water and solid waste in agriculture are some of the options for developing climate resilient agriculture. The book has been divided into major heads as: Climate Change and Indian Agriculture, Climate Change Management Strategies in Agriculture, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Indian Agriculture, New Technologies in relation to Climate Change and with contribution from major research institutes, universities by eminent scientists, faculty members the book will fit into the needs of all concerns.

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Author Biography

Manish Bhan did his PhD programme from University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. At present, he is working as Assistant Professor with work on climate change and agriculture, crop growth modeling, weather based agro-advisories services and other agrometeorological aspects. Vijay Singh Tomar served as a founder Vice Chancellor of R. V. S. Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Gwalior from 2008-12, and presently serving as Vice Chancellor, JNKVV, Jabalpur since 2012. Kamal Kishore Agrawal is working as a Professor in Agronomy with work on organic farming, and crop-weather relationship of major crops of Madhya Pradesh. Sahib Singh Tomar in the four decades of his career in J. N. Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, he served almost all the administrative positions and superannuated as Director Research. Sunil Dutta Upadhyaya did his Ph.D. in Botany with specialization in Ecology, and currently is the Head of Department of Forestry, JNKVV, Jabalpur.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher NIPA
  • Publication Date September 2018
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9789387973077
  • Publication Country or regionIndia
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 222.51 USD
  • Pages304
  • ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleEnglish
  • Original Language AuthorsEnglish
  • Edition1st
  • Copyright Year2018
  • Dimensions6 X 9 inches

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