The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice … the numbers, the picture it paints is not pretty. Achieving rice self-sufficiency comes with a price, and let us take a …

How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … yields - rice yields are reduced by rainfall extremes whereas extremely high temperatures make yields of all three crops …