India Environment Portal Knowledge for change

Food and nutrition security

• 01/01/2013
• Watershed Organisation Trust

Food and nutritional security (FNS) is a complex issue given its reliance on climatic as well as non-climatic factors that are intertwined and interdependent. When climate change is superimposed, it further worsens the situation as food production, one of the critical ecosystem services, is impacted the most. This position paper explains WOTR’s proactive ecosystem based adaptation strategy crystallized from the ecosystem management and conservation work carried out in different states.

• Attachments:
  • Food-Nutrition-Security.pdf
• Tags:
  • Food Security
  • Nutrition
  • India
  • Urbanisation
  • Ecosystems
  • Public Distribution System (PDS)
  • Biofuel
  • Climate Change
  • Processed Foods
  • Agriculture
  • Groundwater
  • Watershed Development

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