Mountain regions are characterized by complex biophysical and marginal socio-economic
conditions that contribute to the vulnerability of agricultural communities. Owing to the …

Currently, the unchecked increase in human population results in increased demand for
agricultural lands. Growing two or more crops simultaneously is one of the mechanisms to …

Sustainable intensification of agriculture is a means of reducing the demand for increased
land resources. A field experiment was conducted at two major finer millet producing areas …

Vulnerability assessment is an important step in developing adaptation strategies. For
biogeographically vital and extremely heterogeneous regions like Himalaya, assessing …

Crops, livestock and forests are interlinked components of Central Himalayan agro-
ecosystems. Traditionally, farm yard manure is produced from forest leaf litter and excreta of …

Finger millet (Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.) and black gram (Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper)
are the most important staple food crops among food habitats of central Himalaya, India …

With the growing recognition to myriad forms of current and future threats in the mountain
agriculture systems, there is a pressing need to holistically understand the vulnerability of …

This paper examines sustainability of cash crops production systems as compared to
traditional cereal cropping patterns in terms of their energy efficiency, ecological suitability …

In Ethiopia, growing of human population on one hand and progressively shrinking
agricultural land availability per capita and drought on the other warrants temporal and …

The Himalaya are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, particularly heavy
rainfall events that cause soil erosion, landslides, and flash floods, and hence an ideal site …