Current concerns with the sustainability of agroecosystems in different parts of the world have hightened the awareness for careful use of the natural resource base on which agriculture depends. For proper and efficient use of soils and plant/animal genetic material, knowledge of the role of climate is an essential precondition. Several elements of the chapters in Agenda 21, a global plan of ac...

The All India Coordinated Research Project on Agrometeorology (AICRPAM) was initiated in 1983 to utilize the climatic resource potential for better agricultural planning, enhanced productivity, profitability and sustainable livelihoods. project has generated valuable research output areas of agroclimatic characterization, crop-weather relationship weather effects pests diseases. Such informatio...

In agrometeorology and management of meteorology related natural resources, many traditional methods and indigenous technologies are still in use or being revived for managing low external inputs sustainable agriculture (LEISA) under conditions of climate variability. This paper starts with the introduction of an “end-to-end” climate information build up and transfer system in agrometeorology, ...

Meeting the challenge of providing sufficient and high quality food for the World is a hunger reducing necessity, which is an imperative for global sustainability and economic prosperity. Much of the popular emphasis for the scientific contribution to help meet this challenge is focussed on climate change and global warming. At a specific level of contextual detail, studies continue with climat...