Climate-smart agriculture training to help BAU officials and scientists handle impacts of climate crisis
IRRI News
A workshop on climate-smart agriculture was conducted for researchers, scientists, and officials of Bihar Agriculture University (BAU) Sabour, India to provide them with the knowledge and skills for developing interventions for farmers to mitigate climate-crisis challenges.
In Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II reported that the increase in global average temperature will have significant risks to agricultural and food systems in vulnerable regions like India. Under these climate change conditions, rice production in the country can decrease by 10% to 30% and maize production can decrease by 25% to 70%, according to IPCC.
To help increase BAU’s capacity to support farmers and alleviate the impact of the climate crisis on their livelihood, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Education at IRRI South Asia Regional Centre (SARC) in Varanasi organized the training under the Climate Resilient Agriculture Program on 02 to 05 March.
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