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Climate Adaptive Agricultural Interventions for Food, Nutritional, Health and Livelihood Security

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Managing agroecosystem via innovative agricultural practices and climate adaptive strategies is indeed a much-needed intervention to maximize the food production for feeding an ever-increasing human population. Also, such practises are essential for overcoming macro/micro nutrients deficiencies, hidden hunger and malnutrition. In this backdrop, the present chapter exemplifies various adaptive agricultural interventions that are vital in changing climatic conditions to maximize the food production for global sustainability. For an instance, adaptive practices to enhance major cereal productivity, improve soil quality, efficient use of water in agriculture, sustainable utilization of land, conserving lesser utilized pseudo cereals, green leaf’s, vegetables, fruits and tubers, etc. are specifically conferred in this chapter. These interventions are imperative for agricultural sustainability and also to enhance the income and livelihood of smallest- to medium-scale farmers in many developing nations. Overall, large-scale adoption of listed climate adaptive measures herein, would also significantly contribute in meeting various national and global sustainable development goals and their targets set for year 2030.

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Dubey, P.K., Singh, A., Chaurasia, R., Abhilash, P.C. (2020). Climate Adaptive Agricultural Interventions for Food, Nutritional, Health and Livelihood Security. In: Dhyani, S., Gupta, A., Karki, M. (eds) Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Ecosystems and Societies. Disaster Resilience and Green Growth. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4712-6_16

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