Nedumaran, S and Padmanabhan, J and Kumar, S and Das, A and Paithankar, P and Kumar, Abhay and Jain, A and Avinandan, V (2023) ICRISAT AND WFP: India Working Paper Climate Change Impacts on Food Security and Nutrition of India Foresight Analysis. Working Paper. World Food Programme.
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Agriculture is a significant and primary sector of the Indian economy and is crucial for ensuring the food, nutrition, and livelihood security of about 80% of the population. Even though India has achieved ‘selfsufficiency’ in food grains production through Green Revolution, it faces challenges like loss of soil fertility, waterlogging, ground, and surface water pollution, intensified pests and diseases, increased farm input prices, and regional disparity (Cummings, 2019). In addition, climate change has added a new dimension to the existing problems by posing a significant threat to Indian agriculture in general and food and nutrition security in particular. The 2022 global food policy reported that by 2030 India is likely to be the country worst affected by climate change (IFPRI, 2022) and identified as one of the highly vulnerable countries to climate change (INCCA, 2010). It is estimated that about 17 million Indians may face famines due to reduced agricultural productivity and disruption in the food supply chain (IFPRI, 2022). The estimated loss due to climate change is about 37 billion dollars for 2018 which is five times higher than the loss incurred in 1990 and 2017 due to climate change. Furthermore, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) claims that 2010:2019 was the country’s warmest decade, signaling the impact of global warming on India. As a result of these climate changes and variability, our agricultural systems face heightened uncertainty (Pingali et al., 2019).
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Global Research Program - Enabling Systems Transformation |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Series Name: | ICRISAT AND WFP: India Working Paper |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Climate Change, Food Security, Nutrition, India |
| Subjects: | Others > Food and Nutrition Others > Climate Change Others > Food Security Others > India |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Dec 2023 05:42 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2023 05:42 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12327 |
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