Impact of Climate Change on Vegetable Seed Production and Mitigation Strategies

The climate extremes and variability pose a severe threat to agriculture and hence to food and nutritional security. Climate change obstructs the path towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of a hunger-free and nutritionally-secured world. Seed security plays a pivotal role in safeguarding global food sustainability. Vegetable seed production, both in terms of quantity and quality, is primarily affected by various climatic vagaries like extreme temperatures, elevated CO2, water stress, etc. There is an urgent need to address this insecurity pertaining to vegetable seed production to ensure a self-reliant global seed system. In this chapter, a thorough elaboration of vegetable seed production vis-à-vis climate change and various mitigation strategies has been presented.