Climate Change and Agriculture in India

This book provides an overview of climate change in India using river basin data and analytical and econometric methods. It, first, makes a quantitative assessment of how climate change affects agricultural and food production systems; second, predicts how these systems may respond to climate change; and third, suggests adaptation measures and strategies to improve the income of farmers, increase production, save water and conserve environment.The work will be greatly useful to policy-makers, researchers and teachers of agricultural economics, environmental studies and economics and development studies as also to research organizations dealing with climate modelling and resource management.

K. Palanisami is Principal Researcher and Director, IWMI-TATA Water Policy Research Program, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Hyderabad, India.

C. R. Ranganathan is Professor of Mathematics (retired), Department of Physical Sciences and Information Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India.

Udaya Sekhar Nagothu is Professor, Development Studies, and Director (International Projects), Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (BIOFORSK), Aas, Norway.

Krishna Reddy Kakumanu is Special Project Scientist, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Hyderabad, India.