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Climate Risk Management in Dryland Agriculture: Technological Management and Institutional Options to Adaptation

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Enhancing Resilience of Dryland Agriculture Under Changing Climate

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Recently, climate risk is a crucial problem behind a majority of global issues in the twenty-first century. Dryland agriculture is also known as risky agriculture because of its basic features of being vulnerable to drought and others climate risks. Sustainable growth in dryland agriculture is urgent to meet various goals of a country like poverty reduction, nutritional requirement, and food security. Climate risk in dryland agriculture is aggravated due to the poor resource base and biotic source threats that lead to production risk. Technological management practices, policy solutions, and institutional adoption are the considerable way to overcome the climate risk in dryland agriculture. Moreover, there is a need to be strengthened the existing technological, institutional, and policy solutions by integrating all management options and their implementation at ground levels through various research organizations. A complete and proactive combination of technological, institutional, and policy solutions is the only way to manage the climate risk at village, block, district, and national levels. Research organizations or institutes are monitoring management solutions and executing capacity-building programs (social protection programs, Village Climate Risk Management Committee) and providing services such as Agrometeorological Advisory Services to reduce the climate risk at the community, district, and national levels.

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  1. Institute of Forest Biodiversity (Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education) Dulapally, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

    Ruby Patel

  2. Faculty Centre for Agriculture, Rural and Tribal Development (ARTD), Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Morabadi, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Siddhartha Mukherjee

  3. Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, India

    Samrat Gosh

  4. Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, School of Agriculture, GIET University, Gunupur, Orissa, India

    Biswabara Sahu

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Patel, R., Mukherjee, S., Gosh, S., Sahu, B. (2023). Climate Risk Management in Dryland Agriculture: Technological Management and Institutional Options to Adaptation. In: Naorem, A., Machiwal, D. (eds) Enhancing Resilience of Dryland Agriculture Under Changing Climate. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9159-2_4

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