Climate-smart actions in agriculture for ensuring zero hunger

摘要

Climate change is a serious issue and has garnered much attention and utmost priority especially in agriculture connected to food and nutritional security for ensuring zero hunger. Perhaps, agriculture in India is affected to a larger extent owing to its geographical position and dependency on monsoon which made the sector sensitive to the climate change. India is a home to undernourishment for around 21% of the population and as per the Sustainable Development Goal 2, there should be no hunger across countries by 2030. Indian population is expected to reach 1.7 billion by 2050 and by 2030 it will be the most populous country and hence the food and nutritional security to the burgeoning population has to be addressed with additional food production. The theme of the World Food Day - (Our actions are our future:a zero hunger world by 2030 is possible' - obviously was framed taking into the current scenario. Evidently, the challenge is a daunting task in the present scenario wherein climate change impacts are getting worse coupled with declining productive resources. In the absence of appropriate adaptation and mitigation efforts against climate change, the challenge to feed the burgeoning population will remain a big puzzle.