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Villages can be weather smart, water smart, carbon smart, nitrogen smart and energy smart, with the farmers making more money all the while

An array of techniques ranging from simple local crop and water resource management to high-tech laser assisted precision land levelling offer scope for beleaguered Indian farmers battling erratic weather patterns to turn their villages ‘climate smart’ and take on global warming...Read more

CGIAR Climate's insight:

Some of the techniques are showing promising results in Haryana under a project of the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) programme under Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), which kicked off in 2012 in India and Nepal in South Asia. The project is also being expanded to four other Indian states, Bangladesh; Vietnam in south-east Asia; to Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda in east Africa; in west Africa and in Guatemala and Nicaragua in Latin America.