Overview
- Highlights approaches for achieving trans-disciplinary research integration for “semi-arid dryland agriculture systems
- Presents ideas to transform lives and build adaptation capacities that will provide much-needed products
- Discusses how climate smart intervention can mitigate short- and long-term effect of dryland agriculture on communities?
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Table of contents (26 chapters)
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Climate Change Adaptations in Dryland Agriculture
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Research and Development in Dryland Agriculture
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. G. Ravindra Chary is Former Director (Acting), Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, and presently Project Coordinator, All India Coordinated Research Project for Dryland Agriculture in Indian Council of Agriculture Research. He obtained B.Sc. (Agriculture) and M.Sc. (Agronomy) from Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU), Hyderabad, and Ph.D. from University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bengaluru. Initially, he worked at Indian Institute of Pulses Research, and National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning. He has made significant contributions in rainfed agriculture research, development, and policy including climate-resilient rainfed agriculture; manual for drought management in India; land use planning in watersheds; carbon sequestration strategies in rainfed production systems; district agriculture contingency plans for 650 districts in India and real-time implementation; and assessment and upscaling of rainfed technologies/climate-resilient practices.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change Adaptations in Dryland Agriculture in Semi-Arid Areas
Editors: Xavier Poshiwa, G. Ravindra Chary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7861-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-7860-8Published: 11 February 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-7863-9Published: 12 February 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-7861-5Published: 10 February 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 365
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Ecology, Risk Management, Agriculture, Food Science