resilience to droughts, floods, storms and temperature extremes and significantly contributes to mitigation of climate change through carbon sequestration. For such farmer led solutions to climate change, and food, water & livelihood security to widely benefit farming communities in India significant training and extension services are required as well as research into the ongoing development of easily adopted highly productive and resilient organic systems. Balancing the food, water and energy nexus for climate resilience in Indian Agriculture A. Arunachalam Indian Council of Agricultural Research, KrishiBhawan, New Delhi 110001 (email: arun70@gmail.com) World is facing the implications of climate change and serious food crises are adding about 200 million people to the 850,000 million people that are already facing absolute hunger and poverty. To mitigate this challenge, promotion of rain fed agriculture is the order of the day. For instance, the dry areas of the world, which occupy more than 40% of the earth’s surface and are the home to more than 2 billion people, are not only the most food deficit areas in the world but also the most vulnerable to climate change given their fragile agro-ecosystems . Over all, sustainable agricultural development in dry areas faces major challenges: Rapid natural resource degradation and desertification, particularly water scarcity due to the variability in rainfall and groundwater depletion. Drought, which is becoming a more frequent phenomenon, Land degradation due to over grazing and inappropriate soil and water management, as well as salinization; Loss of biodiversity due to mono-cropping, overgrazing, incursion of cropping in rangeland areas, and mismanagement of uncultivated and forest areas; Biotic stresses including diseases and insect pests;
resilience to droughts, floods, storms and temperature extremes and significantly contributes to mitigation of climate change through carbon sequestration. For such farmer led solutions to climate change, and food, water & livelihood security to widely benefit farming communities in India significant training and extension services are required as well as research into the ongoing development of easily adopted highly productive and resilient organic systems. Balancing the food, water and energy nexus for climate resilience in Indian Agriculture A. Arunachalam Indian Council of Agricultural Research, KrishiBhawan, New Delhi 110001 (email: arun70@gmail.com) World is facing the implications of climate change and serious food crises are adding about 200 million people to the 850,000 million people that are already facing absolute hunger and poverty. To mitigate this challenge, promotion of rain fed agriculture is the order of the day. For instance, the dry areas of the world, which occupy more than 40% of the earth’s surface and are the home to more than 2 billion people, are not only the most food deficit areas in the world but also the most vulnerable to climate change given their fragile agro-ecosystems . Over all, sustainable agricultural development in dry areas faces major challenges: Rapid natural resource degradation and desertification, particularly water scarcity due to the variability in rainfall and groundwater depletion. Drought, which is becoming a more frequent phenomenon, Land degradation due to over grazing and inappropriate soil and water management, as well as salinization; Loss of biodiversity due to mono-cropping, overgrazing, incursion of cropping in rangeland areas, and mismanagement of uncultivated and forest areas; Biotic stresses including diseases and insect pests;
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