Garg, K K and Anantha, K H and Jat, M L and Kumar, S and Sawargaonkar, G L and Singh, Ajay and Akuraju, V and Singh, R and Ahmed, M I and Rao, C S and Meena, R S and Moyo, M M and Traore, B and Desta, G and Harawa, R and Gerard, B and Saharawat, Y S and Laing, A and Gathala, M K (2024) Drought Management in Soils of the Semi-Arid Tropics. In: Managing Soil Drought. Advances in Soil Science, 1 (1). CRC Press, Boca Raton, pp. 161-211. ISBN 9781003326007
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The drylands of semi-arid tropics face multiple challenges of land degradation, water scarcity, climate change, low agricultural productivity, food insecurity and migration. Soils of the drylands in these landscapes are highly stressed with very low organic carbon and are deficient in nutrients essential for sustainable production. Among multiple challenges in the drylands of the semi-arid tropics, drought is a common phenomenon impacting humanity in these regions. Globally, 1.4 to 4 billion people face water scarcity for 1 to 12 months and most of those live in arid and semi-arid tropics. Climate change having impacts on the precipitation in these regions, further aggravates the challenges, especially through intensifying the hydrological and agricultural droughts. Therefore sustainable management of soils and other natural resources is critical for minimizing the impacts of droughts. Landscape approaches for resource conservation coupled with climate resilient technologies hold enormous opportunities to address the drought in soils of the semi-arid tropics for sustainable food security. In this chapter, we provide the synthesises of the learnings from science-based evidence generated over decades in the drylands of Asia and Africa. Integration of landscape and field scale conservation technologies together holds the key to mitigating drought, sustainable intensification and strengthening ecosystem services. This strategy can potentially help in addressing poverty and malnutrition while contributing to land degradation neutrality and reducing water-energy-carbon footprints towards achieving UN sustainable development goals.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Global Research Program - Enabling Systems Transformation Global Research Program - Resilient Farm and Food Systems |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Series Name: | Advances in Soil Science |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Drought Management, Soils, Semi-Arid Tropics |
| Subjects: | Others > Semi-Arid Tropics Others > Drought Others > Soil Science |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2024 10:30 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2024 10:30 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12847 |
| Acknowledgement: | UNSPECIFIED |
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