ABSTRACT
Rising population and shrinking resource base require sustainable agricultural approach to fulfil the requirement of food-feed-fibre in the coming future. Achieving higher productivity from a shrinking resource base becomes even more difficult under the threat of a changing climate. As different crops respond differently to changing climate, hence understanding the response of individual crops to climate change is a vital concern to develop suitable adaptation and mitigation approaches. Timely intervention in terms of adaptation and mitigation approaches may facilitate in minimizing the adverse influences of climate aberrations by reducing the speed of climate change ensuring food as well as nutritional security. Adaptation and mitigation can be planned in such a way that they are compatible with the crop and prevailing climate in which the crop is grown. The adaptation and mitigation options should also be economically feasible for easy adoption by resource-poor and lowland-holding farming communities, who are expected to be worst affected by climate change.
