The well known term global warming is known for its set of changes in Earth’s climate or long term weather patterns that change from place to place and time to time. Climate change does not only refer to increase in average global temperature but are associated with extreme events of weather, shift of wild population, change in habitat, biodiversity loss, food insecurity and many other impacts. All these have been accelerated by human due to its greed. Majority of the world’s poor live in rural areas and in India being a rural country and agriculture based, the income source of majority of the rural areas come from agriculture and due to climate change factors both production and income has became unpredictable and insecure. Thus, increase of productivity and income is the key to achieve the food security goal and alleviate poverty. Hence resilience is of major concern.
Climate-Smart agriculture is an approach to transform and reorient the agricultural processes that would effectively support development and ensure food security under changing climatic scenario. The objective of CSA is threefold: to increase agricultural productivity and incomes sustainably; adaptation and resilience to climate change and reduce green house gas emissions where possible.
C S D R helps in combating climate change issues through several interventions and actions that includes
- Enhancement of agriculture, forestry and fisheries production towards sustainability
- Crop modelling and decision support system, agromet advisory services
- Management of farms, crops, livestock, fisheries to attain food and livelihood security
- Conservation of ecosystem and landscape management for agricultural development, adaptation and food security
- Enhance the benefits of CSA through change in food-system including demand-side measures and value chain addition
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