Dynamics of Conservation Agriculture: Energy, Climate and Knowledge

authored by: Riti Chatterjee & Sankar Kr Acharya
Browse all books of Sankar Kumar Acharya
ISBN: 9789358872118 | Binding: Hardback | Pages: 398 | Language: English | Copyright: 2025
Length: 152 mm | Breadth: 28.4 mm | Height: 229 mm | Imprint: CONTENT VIBES | Weight: 955 GMS
USD 249.00 USD 225.00
 
This book will be available from 20-Oct-2025

Keywords

conservation agriculture, sustainable farming practices, soil erosion solutions, renewable energy in agriculture, climate-smart agriculture, biodiversity conservation farming, climate change and agriculture, topsoil degradation prevention, water crisis agriculture solutions, carbon positive farming, groundwater depletion in farming, agricultural sustainability, energy restoration in farming, agricultural policy and research, community knowledge in agriculture, restorative agricultural practices, ecological services in farming, agriculture and water management, agricultural mechanization impact, agricultural innovation for sustainability, food security and conservation, farmer education and conservation, renewable resources in farming, global agriculture challenges, farming technology for climate change, agricultural research and development, environmental impact of agriculture, agricultural conservation strategies, future of farming and ecology

The worst of the existential crisis for civilization seems looming very close since we are confronting with water crisis, soil degradation and biodiversity erosion. Around 20 tons top soils are being eroded per hectare per year due to coercive effect of mechanization ; the availability of per capita water has been slashed down from 5000 cubic meter to 1300 cubic meter between 1950 to 2025. While agriculture as a whole is pumping out ground water to the level of 70 per cent of total ground water reserve, four crops mainly rice , wheat, sugarcane ,cotton are responsible for 90 per cent of total depleted ground water in agriculture. If we are to produce 550 million tons of food grain by 2050 to feed a projected population of 1600 million, it is next to impossible with these fragile and porous ecological services. So, we need to follow   conservation  agriculture with an orchestration of energy-climate-knowledge pursuits amongst practicing farmers. The book exactly lands here to present an empirical research on conservation agriculture with a clear focus on renewable energy issues, carbon positive farming for energy restoration and mobilizing community knowledge for ushering the dent and direction of conservation agriculture. This is a time felt publication to serve the global audience in the forms of faculties, researchers and policy makers to save ecology and to save civilization as well.

Sankar Kr Acharya,presently,Dean, Post Graduate Studies ;former Head, Dept. of Agril Extension and Director, Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra KrishiViswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, WB, born on 6th October, 1960, started his career as Assistant Professor at BCKV in 1988 and has been in teaching, research and extension more than  36years. An erudite teacher as well as an elegant speaker, is internationally acclaimed for his unique research domain of Social Entropy and Energy Metabolism, Social Ecology and Environmental Sociology, Enterprise Ecology Framework, Conservation Stewardships: Research Publication: 251 in National and International Journals. Book Publication: 119 books authored.  So far, he has delivered 49 keynote addresses and chaired 57 sessions in National  and International congresses.

Expert Member, Agriculture Commission; Marketing and Extension Sub Committee, Govt. of West Bengal; Expert member WWF projects in BTR (Buxa Tiger Reserve Project); Expert member; DFID project on Primary Education (DPEP); Rapid Environment Impact Analysis.Co-PI of ICAR, NAHEP and World Bank funded project on Conservation Agriculture.So, far he has successfully guided 23 Ph D scholars and 97 M Sc scholars,. He is the Fellow of ISEE, IARI, New Delhi, Fellow, BIOVED, Allahabad; Fellow, Society of community mobilization, IARI, New Delhi. He is now acting as editor, reviewer of several national and international journals Awards and Distinctions: Distinguish Scholar Award, Krishisanskriti, New Delhi; Certificate of Merit for standing First class first at M Sc(Ag) in Agricultural Extension, 1986; ;Honorary Appointment to the Research Board of Advisors, The American Biographic Institute (2003) ;He has been honored to be selected as the Convener of Panel (PE-32) entitled the hunger, poverty and silence, of World Congress, IUAES, University of Manchester, UK, 2013 ;He has been honoured to be selected as the Convener of Panel (P-102) entitled ,’ Uncertainties, Unpredictability and Marginalization: The impact and mitigation for survival of agriculture and humanity, of the 19th  World Congress, IUAES-WAU, 14-20 October, 2023, New Delhi, India, 2023 ;Honoured to be nominated as Expert Member, Working group on Agricultural Extension, West Bengal State Agriculture Commission (2007) ;Honoured to be nominated by the Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, BCKV to Act as an Expert Member, DPEP, A DFID, UK, project for planning and revamping primary education through POA of GOVT of India.(1995)Expert Member, Buxa Tiger Reserve Project funded by WWF(World Wide Wild Life Funding), 1998 ;Dr Daulat Singh Memorial Award, Society of Extension Education, Distinguished Professor and Academician Award, Research Education Solution (RES), M S Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Centurion University(2022); Eminent Scientist Award, EIABT, Citwan Nepal. He is also the Expert Member, Research Council, Vidyasagar University, WB. Achievers of German patent (Utility model no.20202310273) :Novel LOT based inventory management system with radio controlled pallet racking for storage solution. He is the Fellow, West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology(WAST), 2024. He is also the fellow of ISEE, New Delhi, Fellow, BIOVED, Allahabad, Fellow, Mobilization, New Delhi. On academic missions, he visited Italy, France, Germany, China, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Bangladesh, He has a rich profile of editorial and reviewers’ contributions a  different national and international Journals. Now, he has been invited to Zurich, Switzerland to deliver the Keynote address in International conference on Conservation Agriculture, June 22-23, 2025.

Riti Chatterjee is trained as an agriculturist with a specialization in agricultural extension. During her Ph.D. in Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, she conducted extensive fieldwork across agro-climatic zones of West Bengal to investigate farmers' perceptions of climate change and energy management within the social ecology of Conservation Agriculture farms.  Dr. Chatterjee has completed her doctoral study as a Senior Research Fellow (SRF) under a World Bank-funded ICAR-NAHEP Centre for Advanced Agricultural Science and Technology on Conservation Agriculture (CAAST on CA). Assessing farmers' knowledge level on Conservation Agriculture was also one of the thesis objectives that strived her to engage in a series of farm outreach programs. As a part of her Ph.D., she got the World Bank- ICAR fellowship to visit The Ohio State University, USA as a Visiting Ph.D. Scholar, where she worked to analyze and prioritize Conservation Agriculture practices at the stakeholders' level and participated in extension programs during her six months of visitorship. She has expertise in multivariate statistical techniques including artificial neural networks. Being an extensionist, Dr. Chatterjee carried out Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) exercises in her master's and doctoral studies. After completing her Ph.D., she joined the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Just Transition Research Centre (JTRC). At JTRC, she is engaged in policy-driven research to find the pathway for bringing justice to India's energy transition process. To find out the scope for policy intervention, she is following the mix-method approach with the use of quantitative as well as qualitative research methods to explore the perception and situation of grassroots stakeholders whose livelihoods depend on fossil-fuel sectors. Recently Riti received job offer from International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as a specialist of capacity building.

1 Introduction 1-4 
2 Review of Literature 5-28 
3 Theoretical Orientation 29-87 
4 Research Setting: The Social-ecology 
5 Research Methodology
6 Result and Discussion
7 Summary and Conclusion
8 Future Scope, Recommendation, and Limitation of the Study 

 
3539
Submit Your Email, To Receive Regular Updates. You Can Unsubscribe Anytime