Climate Change Modelling, Planning and Policy for Agriculture

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21. Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources

22. Building climate resilient agriculture and enhancing grassroots level adaptive capacity in the semi-arid tropics of India - Indicative Policies for Action

Council of Agricultural Research, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi. His areas of research has been - Restoration Ecology & Environmental Management (Ecosystems; Forest Ecology & Management; Agriculture & Soil Nutrient Management and Conservation Biology.

Dr R Gopichandran serves as the Director of Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous institution of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India. His two doctoral degrees are in the areas of microbial ecology and chemical ecology. He holds a degree in law. A significant part of his career that has spanned nearly twenty five years till now was spent on chemicals management for ozone layer protection. His insights on substitution, phase out and integrated management of ozone depletion and climate protection including inclusive mitigation and adaptation approaches were derived through strong working links with the Compliance Assistance Programme of the OzonAction programme, United Nations Environment Programme, at the regional levels. This was predominantly as part of his output at the Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad and the Gujarat Energy Research & Management Institute, Gandhinagar.

Dr. Kirit Nanubhai Shelat was a public administrator for the Government of Gujarat, India.  He is currently associated with NGOs and Trusts. Dr. Kirit Nanubhai Shelat is Ph.D in Public Administration. He recently retired from the Indian Administrative Service. He started his career in public administration by joining the Gujarat Administrative Service in the year 1967.  During his career of 40 years, he has worked at the grass-root level and had his hand in the formulation and implementation of policies for Agricultural, rural and Industrial development. He has worked as Commissioner of Rural Development, Industries Commissioner, Commissioner for Employment and Training, Commissioner for disabled persons and Secretary Energy Department. He has also worked, as Chairman of State Level Public undertaking like Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation, Land Development Corporation. He also worked in Afghanistan as Land Settlement Advisor to Government of Afghanistan. He has designed and implemented large-scale projects for poor families, farmers, and micro entrepreneurs.   He developed guidelines for Micro-level planning with focus on individual poor family and village development plan. He was responsible for "Cluster development approach" for small industries and "Step up project" for rural micro level Entrepreneurs. He developed micro level production plan module for individual farmer and has his hand in restructuring the Gujarat agriculture sector. He introduced new extension approach of meeting with farmers at their door step prior to monsoon by team led by agriculture scientist. He introduced scientific agriculture based on soil health moisture analysis giving a soil health card to every farmers of Gujarat. This effort went in a long way in developing sustainable agriculture in Gujarat.