Challenges to food grain production in the current climate change scenario for ensuring food security in India: A strategic review
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Food security is a major growing challenge in most of the developing countries including India where the problem is more pronounced given the vagaries of climate change, overgrowing population, shrinking land area and unsustainable agricultural practices.In the past decades, climate has drastically changed in the form of severe drought, erratic rainfall, high temperature etc. which has disturbed the phenology, physiology and productivity of most of the agricultural crops.The concept of food security can be better discussed under its three key components viz.food availability, food accessibility and food utilization.Among these three, food availability has a direct bearing on how we orient our agricultural production system in the contemporary threat of global warming.Moreover there has been irregular occurance and performance of weather parameters which in turn has compelled the scientifi c community to address these issues so that agriculture can become climate resilient and be responsive to the abrupt changes that occurs in the biotic as well as abiotic sphere of the ecosystem.Thus, here an attempt has been made to review the challenges which comes in the way of securing food security in the country especially in the context of growing concerns of climate change and few future perspectives and conclusive works that has been done so far in tackling the problem of global warming coupled with sustaining the agricultural production system.
DOI: 10.21786/bbrc/9.1/1
Language: English
Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Zero hunger, Climate action
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4247784769