Impact of climate change
A concurrent impact of
climate change on agriculture both due to its direct and indirect effects is
taking place over the decades. This has already affected productivity and reduced
the water resources. The smallholders are
the major pillars of the rural economies and are majorly responsible for
national and global food and nutrition security. A large number of small and
marginal farmers, have been struggling with low agricultural productivity and
are unable to improve it as they have low incomes and less access to assets
(such as land tenure, markets, credit, knowledge and technologies, and institutions).
As one of the coping strategy, rural families are adopting migration (non-farm
livelihoods) to increase the household’s income (Bosc et al., 2013). The major
impacts have been on the agriculture sectors of eastern and north-eastern
states of India