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Q59·GS Paper 1 · Prelims 2021

Institutional Framework for Climate-Smart Agriculture

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Question

In the context of India's preparation for Climate-Smart Agriculture, consider the following statements:

  1. 1.

    The 'Climate-Smart Village' approach in India is a part of a project led by the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), an international research programme.

  2. 2.

    The project of CCAFS is carried out under Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) headquartered in France.

  3. 3.

    The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India is one of the CGIAR's research centres.

Options

a

1 and 2 only

b

2 and 3 only

c

1 and 3 only

d

1, 2 and 3

Answer

Explanation

All three statements are correct. The Climate-Smart Village framework is a flagship global research project run by CCAFS , which operates under the CGIAR consortium. CGIAR's institutional secretariat is located in Montpellier, France. ICRISAT, based in Hyderabad, India, is one of the designated core international research centers under the CGIAR network. > Global agronomic resilience programs connect local initiatives to centralized research bodies like CGIAR and domestic research stations like ICRISAT. Answer: (d).

Question details

Year

2021

Paper

GS Paper 1

Question

Q59

Subject

Current Affairs

Sub-topic

Art, Culture & Cinema

Type

Statement-based

Difficulty

Hard

Nature

Current-affairs-linked

Source hint

CGIAR / ICRISAT organizational structures

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