Mr. Gholkar Madhav will present his APS as per the detail:

Date: September 28, 2022

Time: 1700 - 1830 hrs.

Venue: CTARA Conference Room No.1

Topic: A Generalized Approach for Assessing Risk and Resilience of Farming Systems

Guide: Prof. Parmeshwar D. Udmale

RPC Members: Prof. Anand B. Rao, Prof. Bakul Rao, Prof. RAAJ Ramsankaran

Abstract:

Effects of global warming and climate change are being witnessed worldwide, and India is not an  exception. Poor and marginal communities are barely surviving with the severe impacts of extreme  weather events. Changing climatic conditions pose unprecedented challenges to the agricultural  community, and small and marginal farmers, in particular, suffer the most. They are the foremost victims  of changing climate, even though they have, at the individual scale, least contributed to the causes leading  to climate change. With the realization that climate change is inevitable, it is necessary to mitigate the  risks, reduce losses, and enhance the adaptive capacity and resilience of the agricultural community.  Marginal and small agricultural holdings in India constitute a vast majority of farms (> 85%); thus, it is  imperative to look into how marginal and small operational landholding adapts to the changing climate  and identify strategies to enhance their resilience. 

Low productivity, a fluctuating market, and erratic weather make farming a high-risk stake; on the other  hand, the increasing population demands higher food production. Excessive use of chemical fertilizers  and irrigation water has increased yield in the short run but has caused soil degradation and  overexploitation of water resources. In addition, the uncontrolled use of agrochemicals is damaging  agroecology and causing severe health issues among producers and consumers. As agriculture is impacted  by and contributes to climate change, it requires targeted mitigation and adaptation interventions to  achieve the resilience of agricultural systems holistically. The resilience of the agriculture production  (farming) systems will be strengthened with appropriate mitigation and adaptation actions on the ground.  So far, limited studies have focused on assessing the resilience of farming systems by considering the  economic and agroecological components. In this background, the proposed research aims to  assess/quantify the resilience of the smallholder farmers to hydrometeorological extremes, evaluate their  farming practices, measure their adaptive capacities to withstand vulnerable situations, and highlight the  potential to contribute to climate change mitigation. The results of the proposed study will encompass  current concerns and policy requirements for ecological, social, and economic dimensions of sustainable  development of farming systems and facilitate the identification of the most crucial activities that will  reduce vulnerability and increase economic and ecological resilience by addressing climate change  adaptation and mitigation strategies.

Event Date: 
Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - 17:00 to 18:30