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The volume consists of papers presented at a conference that aimed at exploring the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security. Pointing out that the developing countries, particularly India, are vulnerable to climate variability and climate change as their farming depends largely on the rainy season, the papers view the effects of climate change on food production as well as economic activity, human and animal health, water resources and ...
Climate change is increasingly recognized as the greatest global threat facing humanity. For the majority of the world’s population, the persistent problems of food insecurity, rural poverty, and the struggle to develop and sustain new sources of economic growth must now be considered against a backdrop of uncertainty and change in historical climatic patterns. Separately and together, governments, and international organizations need to respond to the ...
The book deals with a detailed account of plants and animals used by the Negrito and Mongoloid tribals of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in their routine life for food, shelter, dugout canoe making, toboos, rituals and medicines. The general features of the islands (climate, natural ecosystems and the people-both the settlers and the aborigines) have been given. The book also traces the history of origin and affinities of the aborigines, their language, physical ...
The Andaman and Nicobar group of islands are the only Indian territory which still basks in its pristine glory. The archipelago is endowed with various maritime ecosystems like evergreen, semi-evergreen and deciduous forests, mangroves, grasslands and pastures. The rain forests exhibit majestic growth in multi-tier canopies with rich biological wealth. Even now, new species are being discovered from the forests of these islands. Recently the scientists of the ...
By the turn of the twenty-first century, there lies a possible threat due to atmospheric pollution, change in global climate, depletion of aquifers, per capita shrinking of croplands, collapsing ecosystem. For an evergreen agriculture, agroforestry and livestock production through scientific management possibly deserves a trial with hitherto adopted policy, skewed for crop production. These systems have more growth potential which became evident during last ...
By the turn of the twenty-first century, there lies a possible threat due to atmospheric pollution, change in global climate, depletion of aquifers, per capita shrinking of croplands, collapsing ecosystems. For an evergreen agriculture, agroforestry and livestock production through scientific management possibly deserves a trial with hitherto adopted policy, skewed for crop production. These systems have more growth potential which became evident during last ...