An Insight on Different Climate Smart and Resilient Agricultural Practices

Climate change is a global issue that has united the nations from the United States of America in the west to Japan in the east. Extreme events like drought, flood, and heavy rainfall have increased both in frequency and intensity. Eighty-four percent of the impact of these events is borne by agriculture. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) based on three principles of enhancing productivity and incomes, augmenting resilience of livelihoods and ecosystems, and lowering and removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere is a crucial tool to transform agri-food systems in an approachable manner and mitigate the dreadful effects of climate change while sustainably producing food and energy. Climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) is an approach that includes the sustainable use of existing natural resources to achieve long-term higher productivity and farm incomes under climate variabilities. Various climate-smart and climate-resilient agricultural technologies and practices namely crop diversification, conservation agriculture, soil and nutrient management, integrated pest management, growing crops tolerant to climate change are weapons to fight against the negative impacts of climate change to save the existence of every living organism on this planet. Application of climate-smart and -resilient practices strongly needs to be promoted and backed up by appropriate policies by all countries unitedly.