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Agricultural sustainability under emerging climatic variability: the role of climate-smart agriculture and relevant policies in India

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  • Jeetendra Prakash Aryal
  • Tek Bahadur Sapkota
  • Dil Bahadur Rahut
  • M.L. Jat

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Global demand for agricultural products continues to grow while production resources are diminishing. Increasing climatic variability poses further challenges. Therefore, ensuring agricultural sustainability necessitates a transformation of the production system to make it more productive, inputefficient and to lower the environmental footprint. Such a transformation requires system-wide actions and considerable changes in governance, policies, and institutions. On this pretext, we examined if existing climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can enhance adaptation to and mitigation of climate change and overall food security in India. We found that CSA can substantially contribute towards climate change adaptation, mitigation, and food security. Mainstreaming CSA practices into development planning through CSVs would create mutual benefits by generating evidences based on CSAs at local level, thereby contributing to the design of local adaptation plans of action (LAPA) and further feed information into state and national action plans on climate change. Thus, we propose to mainstream CSA into development planning.

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  • Jeetendra Prakash Aryal & Tek Bahadur Sapkota & Dil Bahadur Rahut & M.L. Jat, 2020. "Agricultural sustainability under emerging climatic variability: the role of climate-smart agriculture and relevant policies in India," International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 14(2), pages 219-245.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisde:v:14:y:2020:i:2:p:219-245
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    1. Jeetendra Prakash Aryal & Cathy R. Farnworth & Ritika Khurana & Srabashi Ray & Tek B. Sapkota & Dil Bahadur Rahut, 2020. "Does women’s participation in agricultural technology adoption decisions affect the adoption of climate‐smart agriculture? Insights from Indo‐Gangetic Plains of India," Review of Development Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 24(3), pages 973-990, August.
    2. Collins C. Okolie & Gideon Danso-Abbeam & Okechukwu Groupson-Paul & Abiodun A. Ogundeji, 2022. "Climate-Smart Agriculture Amidst Climate Change to Enhance Agricultural Production: A Bibliometric Analysis," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-23, December.
    3. Stefano Predieri & Marta Cianciabella & Giulia Maria Daniele & Edoardo Gatti & Nico Lippi & Massimiliano Magli & Chiara Medoro & Federica Rossi & Camilla Chieco, 2023. "Italian Consumers’ Awareness of Climate Change and Willingness to Pay for Climate-Smart Food Products," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(5), pages 1-14, March.
    4. Istiqomah, Nurul; Mafruhah, Izza; Ismoyowati, Dewi, 2024. "Development of Food Distribution Model to Support Food Security in East Java Province," Research on World Agricultural Economy, Nan Yang Academy of Sciences Pte Ltd (NASS), vol. 1(1), September.

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