Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
is received during October to February month. Long duration crops of Akkadi system
effectively utilises this rainfall.
Household Nutrition
With this indigenous farming system, rainfed farmers have access to food high in calories,
protein and dietary fibre. This system ensures annual food and nutrition for the rainfed
farmers and fodder security for livestock.
Conclusion
The study on the indigenous multi-cropping system of Akkadi demonstrates that traditional
knowledge is core to adaptive changes using available resources essential to face climate
change, the nutrition quality of food, and other current issues related to the mono-cropping
system. Policy-level interventions for understanding these cropping systems and their
mainstreaming are the need of the hour. Decentralized agroecological approaches and
participatory research methods for establishing scientific evidence on biophysical and socioeconomic
parameters of indigenous multi-cropping systems are needed to revitalize rainfed
agriculture.
T2-11R-1559
Carbon Sequestration as a Major Regulating Ecosystem Service from
Dryland Agroforestry Systems
K. B. Sridhar*, G. Ravindra Chary 2 , Mudlagiriappa 3 , M.S Shirahatti 4 ., S.B Patil 5 ., M.
R. Umesh 6 , B. Narsimlu 7 , K.A. Gopinath 8
1,2,7,8 , All India Coordinated Research Project on Dryland Agriculture, CRIDA, Hyderabad
3 AICRPDA Centre, UAS Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
4,5 AICRPDA Centre, UAS Dharwad, Karnataka, India
6 AICRPDA Centre, UAS Raichur, Karnataka, India
*sriaranya@gmail.com
Trees are the largest terrestrial sink of carbon dioxide. Agroforestry systems serve as a C sink
and help mitigate GHG emissions from agriculture (Duguma et al., 2017). The potential of
agroforestry in carbon capture and storage varies with the type of agroforestry practiced, the
tree species used and climatic zones (Kuyah et al., 2019).Agroforestry has been recognized as
having the greatest potential for C sequestration of all the land uses analyzed in the LULUCF
report of the IPCC (2000).Agroforestry systems are believed to have a higher potential to
sequester carbon (C) because of their perceived ability for greater capture and utilization of
growth resources (light, nutrients, and water than single-species crop or pasture systems (Nair
et al., 2010) About 50% of tree dry biomass is considered as carbon. As the trees grow, they
sequester carbon in their tissues and release oxygen into the atmosphere. Land use systems
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Ecosystem based approaches for climate change adaptation, ecosystem services, integrated farming system models,
Land degradation neutrality