Building Climate Smart Farmers

‘Building Climate Smart Farmers’ authored by Dr.Kirit Shelat – formerly Agriculture Secretary Gujarat – India and Dr.Odemari Mbuya – Professor – Agricultural Sciences - Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) – USA is a Guidebook not only for farmers but also for all stakeholders in agriculture and rural development. Climate change has created un-precedential challenge to entire agriculture sector. Unforeseen weather events are leading to crop failures low yields and so on and so forth affecting not only food security but only source of livelihood of farmers. Book is product of both Indian and U.S. experts on how to develop Climate Resilient Agriculture and how to prepare farmers to meet this challenge with narration of mitigation and adaptation practices actually adopted by farmers in India. Book goes one step ahead and advises how farmers can increase – double their income – despite adversities of climate change. Its focus on direct involvement of public leadership with these tasks and narrates enabling needs of farmers to be provided by govt. in terms of policies and programmes to make this happen. It has number of case studies of farmers who have achieved higher growth and income despite these challenges. It is a must for all those who have interest in agriculture – food security and food productivity and will certainly help the farmers of developing world to see way out.