This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change. It reasons that widespread uptake of sustainable practices in agriculture and food supply chains is essential to meet current and future threats to food security and environmental resilience. It outlines the threats as follows:

Climate change and catastrophic events have contributed to rice shortages in several regions due to decreased water availability and soil salinisation. Although not adapted to salt or drought stress, two commercial rice varieties achieved tolerance to these stresses by colonising them with Class 2 fungal endophytes isolated from plants growing across moisture and salinity gradients. This paper examines the stress tolerance via symbiosis of rice plants and the potential usefulness of symbiotic technology for mitigating the impacts of climate change on these and other crops.

This paper analyses the implications of climate change on production of four crop categories (rice, wheat, pulses and coarse cereals) for ten large food-grain producing states in India over the period 2030–2050. Panel econometric estimation technique is used to model supply response, and these estimates are subsequently used along with yield and climate parameter projections to derive the expected impacts.