About the Book: Climate Smart Agriculture for Sustaining Crop Productivity and
Improving Livelihood Security
Climate smart agriculture is an approach that helps to transform and reorient
agricultural systems to effectively support sustained crop productivity and
ensuring food security in a scenario of changing climate. To feed an expanding
population, the annual world food production will need to increase by many fold
in the coming decades. However, the impacts of climate change, which include
increasing temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, frequent extreme
weather events and the loss of ecosystem services and biodiversity will
certainly undermine agricultural production systems and food systems, especially
in developing countries where poverty, hunger and