Climate Smart Agriculture: Approach and Perspectives for the Rice-Wheat Crop Rotation System in IGP (Indo-Gangetic Plains)

Abstract

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps to guide the actions required to change and devise agriculture management techniques to effectively support growth and ensure food security in a changing climate scenario. The objectives of CSA are sustainably increase agricultural yield and incomes; adapt and build resilience to climate change like climate resilient agriculture practices; and reducing greenhouse gases (GHG) emission. CSA is a way of developing agricultural strategies for the sustaining food security in IGP under climate change. The CSA would help small and marginal farmers in IGP, to find out agricultural practices that are suitable for local conditions and to overcome the negative impact of climate change. A thoroughly literature review on CSA, this study managed to devise strategies for the reorienting of rice-wheat cropping system in IGP, for the conditions of declining natural resources and productivity, water, labour and energy shortages of Indo-Gangetic Plains.