**Climate Smart Agriculture: An Option for Changing Climatic Situation Climatic Situation**

**Climate Smart Agriculture: An Option for Changing** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.69971

Mona Nagargade, Vishal Tyagi and Manoj Kumar Singh Manoj Kumar Singh Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Mona Nagargade, Vishal Tyagi and

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.69971

#### **Abstract**

World population is increasing day by day and at the same time agriculture is threatened due to natural resource degradation and climate change. Production stability, agricul‐ tural productivity, income and food security is negatively affected by changing climate. Therefore, agriculture must change according to present situation for meeting the need of food security and also withstanding under changing climatic situation. Projected esti‐ mates based on food consumption pattern and population growth show that agriculture production will require enhancing by 65% to meet the need of burgeoning population by 2050. Agriculture is a prominent source as well as a sink of greenhouse gases (GHGs). So there is a need to modify agricultural practices in a more sustainable way to overcome these problems. Developing climate‐resilient agriculture is thus crucial to achieving future food security and climate change goals. It helps the agricultural system to resist damage and recover quickly by adaptation and mitigation strategies. Mitigation strate‐ gies reduce the contribution of agriculture system to greenhouse gas emission, and adap‐ tation strategies provide agriculture production under changing scenarios. This chapter explains different mitigation and adaptation strategies, including farming practices and engineering approaches.

**Keywords:** adaptation, climate change, climate smart agriculture, mitigation, sustainable development
