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Food, Fuel and Climate Change:India’s Trilemma


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1 Department of Energy and Environment, TERI University, 10 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070, India
 

On 25 September 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development, commonly known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), over the next 15 years. The second goal in the list is: zero hunger. This is not an easy target to achieve. A radical change of the agricultural system is needed to nourish today’s 795 million hungry and the additional 2 billion people expected by 2050 (ref. 1). India is no different; the challenge for the country is its increasing population, limited land, degrading land and changing land use.
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Priyanka Kaushal
Department of Energy and Environment, TERI University, 10 Institutional Area, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi 110 070, India

Abstract


On 25 September 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development, commonly known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), over the next 15 years. The second goal in the list is: zero hunger. This is not an easy target to achieve. A radical change of the agricultural system is needed to nourish today’s 795 million hungry and the additional 2 billion people expected by 2050 (ref. 1). India is no different; the challenge for the country is its increasing population, limited land, degrading land and changing land use.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv113%2Fi07%2F1224-1224