{"id":27452,"date":"2018-10-23T14:08:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27452"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:08:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:38:54","slug":"transforming-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transforming-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/transforming-agriculture\/article24962014.ece\"><b>Transforming agriculture<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Article<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1.Konda Reddy, has talked about the importance of Biodiversity for inclusive development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Important Analysis:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2.Climate change and development without consideration for biodiversity are leading causes of biodiversity loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3.India\u2019s National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) recognizes the importance of inclusive development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4.<\/span><b>Green Agriculture Project<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> implemented by GOI with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) provide support to NBAP and ensure sustainable development in five landscape adjoining protected area of MP, Mizoram, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Focus area of the projects are<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Addressing land degradation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Climate change mitigation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sustainable forest management<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biodiversity conservation.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6.Man-Animal conflicts in the protected area, unsustainable procurement of non-timber forest products (NTFP) are major issues concerning biodiversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Approach which can ensure sustainable conservation:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participatory and landscape approach (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">relates to conservation, agriculture and other land uses seeks to address the increasingly complex and widespread environmental challenges<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Focus on NTFP harvest<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eradication of invasive alien species<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mitigation of wildlife conflicts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encouraging traditional farming systems such as jhum encouraged crop diversity<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participatory learning tools for farmers for soil conservation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">8.Participatory and landscape approach will restore traditional knowledge system such as conservation of common property resources i.e. Orans (Sacred Woodland) in Rajasthan and Village safety and supply reserves in Mizoram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">9.Special focus is required towards Indigenous traditional crops (Odisha Rice) rather than market demand driven crops for sustainable development.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transforming agriculture Article: 1.Konda Reddy, has talked about the importance of Biodiversity for inclusive development. Important Analysis: 2.Climate change and development without consideration for biodiversity are leading causes of biodiversity loss. 3.India\u2019s National Biodiversity Action Plan (NBAP) recognizes the importance of inclusive development. 4.Green Agriculture Project implemented by GOI with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transforming-agriculture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transforming agriculture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704811959},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}