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ChApteR ONe
Climate change vis-à-vis
agriculture
Indian and global view—
implications, abatement,
adaptation and trade-off
Sumit Chakravarty, Anju Puri and
Gopal Shukla
Contents
Abstract
2
1.1 Introduction
3
1.2
Agriculture as a contributor
5
Global trends
5
Regional trends
7
1.3
Global agricultural land use change
and implication
8
1.4
Climate change impacts
10
Impacts on agriculture
12
1.5 Adjustment
24
1.6 Abatement/mitigation
30
Reducing emissions
31
Enhanc ing removals
32
Avoiding/displacing emissions
32
Cropland management
32
Grazing land management and pasture
improvement
34
Management of organic/peaty soils
35
Restoration of degraded lands
36
Livestock management
36
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