Global climate change and Indian agriculture: case studies from the ICAR network project
Read this latest book by P.K. Aggarwal that presents likely impacts of climate change on different agricultural sectors. It shows the assessment of the magnitude of emissions of GHGs from Indian agriculture and evaluates the potential of various mitigation strategies.
Irrespective of the outcome of the international negotiations on climatic change, agriculture has to become more competitive, efficient, profitable, and develop mechanisms to reduce climate change vulnerability.
To address the key issues of climate change with respect to Indian agriculture such as: identifying crops, commodities, regions and communities more vulnerable, steps required to increase the adaptive capacity and ensure sufficient food production and role of agriculture in mitigating emissions of greenhouse gases, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) set up a Network Project on