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Scope and Strategic Intervention for Climate-Smart Agriculture in North Eastern India

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Agriculture is the key player of the economy of North Eastern Region (NER), India, and mainstay of most of the people of NER, India. However, environmental factors and climate change influence the production, productivity and regional food security. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is the concept of sustainable augmentation of agricultural production and productivity to ensure the food security and restore or protect the environment by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Therefore, sustainable production and productivity of important food items or crops without or reduced emission of GHGs and building resilience to climate change are the challenges to the agriculture sector. This chapter is an attempt to assess the scope of CSA and propose a strategic intervention to achieve the CSA in the region. All the existing agricultural crops and some important practices in the region are assessed with special reference to CSA. We also assess the existing stakeholders in the implementation of CSA and mitigation and adaptation of climate change and propose a suitable strategy to accelerate the implementation of CSA and the mitigation and adaptation of climate change.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Extension, SASRD, Nagaland University, Medziphema, Nagaland, India

    N. K. Patra

  2. Capacity Strengthening Program, IFPRI, Washington, DC, USA

    Suresh Chandra Babu

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  1. School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    V. Venkatramanan

  2. School of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, Delhi, India

    Shachi Shah

  3. Department of Botany, School of Life Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari, East Champaran, Bihar, India

    Ram Prasad

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Patra, N.K., Babu, S.C. (2020). Scope and Strategic Intervention for Climate-Smart Agriculture in North Eastern India. In: Venkatramanan, V., Shah, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Global Climate Change: Resilient and Smart Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9856-9_8

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