Climate-Smart Agriculture Ensuring Sustainability and Food Security - By Ranjeet Shah
General Studies Paper 3/UPSC Mains/Spotlight Article/Climate-Smart Agriculture Ensuring Sustainability and Food Security
In a world where climate change poses unprecedented challenges to agriculture and food security, climate-smart agriculture presents a holistic approach to addressing the challenges while ensuring sustainability and food security through more resilient, productive and sustainable agricultural systems.
According to the recently published Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024, nearly 282 million people faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 59 countries in 2023, with extreme weather being the second most significant factor driving food crisis.
Furthermore, with over 4.62 billion acres of farmland worldwide, the food ....