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Making Environmental Sustainability an Integral Part of Agricultural Research


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1 Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003, India
2 Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Hyderabad 502 324, India
 

The agricultural sector plays a critical role in mitigating environmental sustainability challenges and climate change impacts. Agricultural research is essential for conserving genetic resources, developing nutritious and high-yielding varieties, and enhancing soil, animal, and human health without affecting the biodiversity-ecosystem. This paper gives an outlook on what means environmental sustainability integration possible in agricultural research through multidisciplinary partnerships. The state of agricultural research today looks at innovative approaches to support sustainable agriculture and discusses how we might use these approaches to make real strides towards environmental sustainability.

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Authors

Govindasamy Senthilraja
Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003, India
Theerthagiri Anand
Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore 641 003, India
Mahalingam Govindaraj
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Hyderabad 502 324, India

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The agricultural sector plays a critical role in mitigating environmental sustainability challenges and climate change impacts. Agricultural research is essential for conserving genetic resources, developing nutritious and high-yielding varieties, and enhancing soil, animal, and human health without affecting the biodiversity-ecosystem. This paper gives an outlook on what means environmental sustainability integration possible in agricultural research through multidisciplinary partnerships. The state of agricultural research today looks at innovative approaches to support sustainable agriculture and discusses how we might use these approaches to make real strides towards environmental sustainability.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv125%2Fi5%2F475-476