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14.1.4 Sensitization of Stakeholders
About Climate Change and Its
Impacts
14.1.6 Promotion of Resource
Conservation Technologies
Shrinking resource base due to anthropogenic
developmental activities is a major challenge
ahead for humanity. Conservation of natural
resources can be promoted by giving incentives
to the farmers those who are adopting environ-
mental conserving, pest controlling activities
such as organic farming, biocontrol, integrated
pest management, habitat conservation for
important insect pollinators, etc. Strategies for
adaptation and coping could benefi t from com-
bining scientifi c and indigenous technical knowl-
edge (ITK), especially in developing countries
where technology is least developed. ITK is help-
ful in adapting the adverse effects of changing
climate, e.g., application of natural mulches helps
in suppression of harmful pests and diseases
besides moderating soil temperatures and conser-
vation of soil moisture. Further more study
towards integrating indigenous adaptation mea-
sures in global adaptation strategies and scientifi c
research is required.
Considering the impacts of future climate
change on sustainability and productivity of
agriculture, especially in the developing coun-
tries like India, there is an urgent need to sensi-
tize the farmers, extension workers, and other
stakeholders involved in supply chain manage-
ment about the climate change-associated
changes in incidence of pests and diseases of
major crops in their regions and the different
adaptation strategies to cope with the situation.
This can be achieved through organization of
awareness campaigns, training, and capacity-
building programs, development of learning
material and support guides for different risk
scenarios of pest, etc.
14.1.5 Farmers' Participatory
Research for Enhancing
Adaptive Capacity
The decision-making ability and adaptive capac-
ity of farmers can be enhanced through the inte-
gration of a farmers' participatory and
multidisciplinary research approach involving
research and developmental organizations and
farmers as equal partners. This will help to
improve the channels of communication
between researchers and farmers for dissemina-
tion of knowledge and information regarding
the current advances in the provision of weather
and climate information and weather-based
agro-advisory services for facilitating opera-
tional decisions at farm level. A decision sup-
port system (DSS) involving mechanisms for
collection and dissemination of information on
insect-pest data under diverse environmental
conditions for improved assessments well in
advance needs to be developed. In view of
changing pest scenario due to climate, our future
research programs should focus on the search
for more general forms of resistance against
various classes of insects or diseases under abi-
otically stressful environments.
14.2
Priorities for Action
Addressing food security and climate change
challenges has to be done in an integrated man-
ner. To increase food production and to reduce
emissions intensity, thus contributing to mitigate
climate change, food systems have to be more
effi cient in the use of resources. To ensure food
security and adapt to climate change, they have to
become more resilient.
This has to happen globally, worldwide, and
everywhere. Increased effi ciency in one part of
the world provides food and income where it
takes place, but it also provides more food, glob-
ally, and thus can provide food elsewhere and
reduce its cost, globally. With increased risks,
increasing resilience of the worldwide food sys-
tem also means that effi ciency and resilience
have to be improved everywhere, so as to spread
risk. Therefore, climate resilient agriculture is a
dynamic approach that concerns all farmers, all
over the world. But developing countries are
 
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