Climate-Smart Agriculture Interventions for Food and Nutritional Security

Human health is mainly dependent on nutrition. In this era of modern civilization, many parts of the world (countries) are still struggling with the availability of sufficient food grains. Agriculture production is largely dependent on climatic conditions of the region. Owing to large dependence of agriculture on climatic conditions, it is adversely affected by the weather vagaries, rising temperature, and fluctuations in precipitation pattern. Moreover, the growing population has placed a huge burden on agriculture production for food security. Low food demand due to low per capita household income also adds to lower consumption, consequently leading to food insecurity. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is a blend of various approaches to transform and re-orient agriculture to ensure food security under changing climatic conditions. The main target of CSA is adaptability to climate change, alleviation of greenhouse gases, energy efficiency, and ultimately food security. Various smart technologies are incorporated in CSA to increase water, nutrient, and energy use efficiencies using advance knowledge and climate weather services. The adoption of CSA technologies has proven to efficiently raise agriculture production and consequently the household consumption of food items because of improved and better availability of quality food. The increased income of farming households also adds to the food security of the people and improves their food consumption pattern.