What are the adaptation strategies for climate change in agriculture India and can agricultural systems be adapted to reduce the impact of climate change?
Emissions from food production could be reduced by encouraging healthier diets, reducing food waste, and changing farming and land management practices. Agriculture could be more resilient to climate change impacts through new technology or by diversifying crops on farms. Several adaptation strategies such as heat- and water stress-tolerant crop varieties, stress-tolerant new crops, improved agronomic management practices, improved water use efficiency, conservation agriculture practices and improved pest management, improved weather forecasts. Changes in temperature and rainfall, shifting pests and diseases, and increasingly frequent extreme weather events will affect food production and security globally. Emissions from food production could be reduced by encouraging healthier diets, reducing food waste, and changing farming and land management practices. Rehabilitation of degraded pastures also provides climate adaptation benefits, including reduced local temperatures, increased air humidity, better resistance against heat waves and drought and more resilience against natural disasters. It also has a positive effect on soil erosion and water availability.
Agriculture could be more resilient to climate change impacts through new technology or by diversifying crops on farms. The common agricultural adaptation strategies used by farmers were the use of drought resistant varieties of crops, crop diversification, changes in cropping pattern and calendar of planting, conserving soil moisture through appropriate tillage methods, improving irrigation efficiency, and afforestation. Agroforestry systems are an important tool for climate change adaptation in agriculture. Emissions from food production could be reduced by encouraging healthier diets, reducing food waste, and changing farming and land management practices. The effects of climate change on agriculture can result in lower crop yields and nutritional quality due to drought, heat waves and flooding as well as increases in pests and plant diseases. The adaptation strategies such as heat- and water stress-tolerant crop varieties, stress-tolerant new crops, improved agronomic management practices, improved water use efficiency, conservation agriculture practices and improved pest management, improved weather forecasts, and other climate services are in place to place. Climate change further poses a challenge to food security challenges with its influence on food production, costs, and security. Excessive heat or shortage of water can impede crop growth; reduce yields, and influence irrigation, soil quality, and the ecosystem on which agriculture depends. As trees grow, they help absorb and sink the carbon that would otherwise contribute to global heating. Trees use sunlight energy to do photosynthesis – a process that uses carbon dioxide and water to create energy for their cells. A part of the potential yield losses can be offset by farming practices, such as rotating crops to match water availability, adjusting sowing dates to temperature and rainfall patterns, and using crop varieties better suited to new condition.
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