The Climate-Smart Village Approach for Building Resilient Agriculture in India
The Climate-Smart Village Approach for Building Resilient Agriculture in India
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India is amongst the most vulnerable regions to climate change in the Inter-Government
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Fifth Assessment Report released a year ago, and
in other similar reports. Rise in average temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns, and
increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as severe droughts and floods have
been observed in different agro-ecological zones of India, which poses a major threat to
India’s food security. Despite impressive progress in food production in recent years, India
remains home to almost 40% of the world’s poor, 20% of the world’s hungry and 40% of
the world’s malnourished children and women. The majority of poor and under-nourished
live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for food and livelihoods. The impressive
economic growth and remarkable increase in food production during last few decades have
not contributed to alleviating poverty and reducing hunger in rural areas. Therefore, future
growth strategies should include sustainable agricultural development.
Compounding food security and related livelihood related issues, is the significant amount
of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions from the agricultural sector. Agriculture both affects
and is in turn affected by climate change. The sector is responsible for a third of global
GHG emissions, with India’s contribution amounting to 18% (Sapkota et al. 2018). From
another lens, the Indian population continues to grow
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