Brunt of Climate Change and Spice Crops: Scenario, Response, and Resilience

The brunt of climate change on plant animals and human beings is going to be exponential and millions of hectares of land and ecosystem are to counter the vagaries of global warming and climate change. In spite of direct negative impacts, a well-designed expansion, socialization, and institutionalization of spice cultivation and consumption can come up as a great savior in this humongous crisis. Spice crops in India are mostly grown in natural ecosystem along with in cultivated lands. The chapter explores the possible niches of spices cultivation, acculturation, and accommodation into the existing cropping sequence by editing it in a realistic manner. This would help in making the ecosystem refreshing, resilient, and reinforced. Alongside isolation of new genes, the traditional genes may need an editing to add better orchestration in the symphony of ecosystem voices and response. The community gene bank inventorization of traditional knowledge, socialization of adaptive technologies, and re-engineering of cultivation tools and techniques will be as effective and productive as we can perceive and predict. This would ensure an opportunity for family- and community-level healthcare through consumption of locally available spices and by including them into the everyday food plates not by imposition, but by self-exploration, the gamut of new age approach will create a paradigm wherein ecology, economy, and climate will move with perfect orchestrations by setting aside all clichés and prejudices of conflicts and non-cooperation between man and nature.