Conservation Agriculture in South Asia
South Asia, a home of 1.7 billion people houses the most poor and malnourished people globally. The region need to double its food production by 2050. Current scenario puts South Asian agriculture in a dilema facing triple challenges: to increase production to meet the food demand of growing human p...
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Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126863 |
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| author | Saharawat, Yashpal Singh Gill, Mushtaq Gathala, Mahesh Kumar Karki, Tika Bahadur Wijeratne, D.B.T. Samiullah, Sayed |
| author_browse | Gathala, Mahesh Kumar Gill, Mushtaq Karki, Tika Bahadur Saharawat, Yashpal Singh Samiullah, Sayed Wijeratne, D.B.T. |
| author_facet | Saharawat, Yashpal Singh Gill, Mushtaq Gathala, Mahesh Kumar Karki, Tika Bahadur Wijeratne, D.B.T. Samiullah, Sayed |
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| description | South Asia, a home of 1.7 billion people houses the most poor and malnourished people globally. The region need to double its food production by 2050. Current scenario puts South Asian agriculture in a dilema facing triple challenges: to increase production to meet the food demand of growing human population with a lower environmental footprint, preserve natural resources and mitigate or adapt to the changing climatic scenarios. Conservation Agriculture offers a number of benefits such as arresting and reversing the resource degradation, decreasing cultivation costs, making agriculture more resource – use-efficient, competitive and sustainable whilst increasing resilience to climatic variability and improving livelihood incomes in South Asia. The CA approach for managing agro-ecosystems is of paramount significance in improving soil health, sustained productivity and maintaining natural biodiversity. However, there is still a large knowledge gap in understanding of nutrient and water management in CA systems. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1268632024-04-25T06:01:58Z Conservation Agriculture in South Asia Saharawat, Yashpal Singh Gill, Mushtaq Gathala, Mahesh Kumar Karki, Tika Bahadur Wijeratne, D.B.T. Samiullah, Sayed conservation agriculture food security soil quality water productivity climate change South Asia, a home of 1.7 billion people houses the most poor and malnourished people globally. The region need to double its food production by 2050. Current scenario puts South Asian agriculture in a dilema facing triple challenges: to increase production to meet the food demand of growing human population with a lower environmental footprint, preserve natural resources and mitigate or adapt to the changing climatic scenarios. Conservation Agriculture offers a number of benefits such as arresting and reversing the resource degradation, decreasing cultivation costs, making agriculture more resource – use-efficient, competitive and sustainable whilst increasing resilience to climatic variability and improving livelihood incomes in South Asia. The CA approach for managing agro-ecosystems is of paramount significance in improving soil health, sustained productivity and maintaining natural biodiversity. However, there is still a large knowledge gap in understanding of nutrient and water management in CA systems. 2022-02-08 2023-01-11T14:33:14Z 2023-01-11T14:33:14Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126863 en Limited Access Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited Saharawat, Y.S., Gill, M., Gathala, M.K., Karki, T.B., Wijeratne, D.B.T. and Samiullah, S. 2022. Con-servation Agriculture in South Asia. IN: Kassam, Amir (ed.), Advances in Conservation Agricul-ture, Volume 3, pp. 1–41. United Kingdom: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. |
| spellingShingle | conservation agriculture food security soil quality water productivity climate change Saharawat, Yashpal Singh Gill, Mushtaq Gathala, Mahesh Kumar Karki, Tika Bahadur Wijeratne, D.B.T. Samiullah, Sayed Conservation Agriculture in South Asia |
| title | Conservation Agriculture in South Asia |
| title_full | Conservation Agriculture in South Asia |
| title_fullStr | Conservation Agriculture in South Asia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conservation Agriculture in South Asia |
| title_short | Conservation Agriculture in South Asia |
| title_sort | conservation agriculture in south asia |
| topic | conservation agriculture food security soil quality water productivity climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126863 |
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