Climate-Smart Agriculture

Climate smart agriculture requires a digital integration of climate and agriculture information. India is digitalising rapidly, and so its policies and practices to achieve climate smart agriculture must also promote digital integration. This policy brief presents a framework and process guide to: (a) digitally integrate India’s agriculture and climate information;(b) analyse India’s extant agriculture and climate information policies within the framework; (c) highlight their strengths, weaknesses, and oversights; and (d) recommend pathways for the future. The brief will help determine the known effective pathways to climate-smart agriculture that must be reinforced, the known ineffective pathways that must be redirected, and the unknown new pathways that must be discovered and explored. It will thus develop a comprehensive roadmap for effective digitalisation pathways to climate smart agriculture in India and other G20 countries, individually and collectively.

Ontology

Illustrative Pathways

• The digital sensing of data about the effects of temperature change on cereal crops in the Eastern Himalayan region in India for effective agriculture productivity management.
• The digital processing of interpretation about the effects of wind speed changes on fodder crops in the southern plateau and hills region in India for effective agriculture emissions management.
• The digital communicating of knowledge about the effects of precipitation changes on spice crops in the eastern plateau and hills region in India for effective agriculture resilience management.

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A Digitalisation Roadmap for Climate-Smart Agriculture in India