Publication: Climate Change and South Asian Agriculture: New Strategies for Resilience
(April 15, 2025)

On April 15, 2025, a fundamental new release came from the Sundar Singh Institute:
Climate Change and South Asian Agriculture: New Strategies for Resilience.

Anjali R. Kapoor, one of the leading scholars in this discipline and more known for her work in environmental studies and sustainable development, is one of the contributors to this article, which assesses the impact of climate change on agricultural efforts across South Asia.

The findings note how average increased temperature, more unpredictable monsoon seasons, and excessive soil erosion all impact agricultural yield in this region populated by millions of smallholder farm families.

Using grounded fieldwork data collection, regionally comparative case studies, and climate predictions, this work offers new, community-oriented, adaptive efforts as strategies for increased resiliency of food systems—especially for smallholder farmers and vulnerable communities undergoing ecological stressing—for potential sustainable solutions.

By the time of publication, the work changed the conversation for policy at national and sub-national scales. This work was recognized as a working paper by Indian and Bangladeshi government institutions for their ongoing agricultural policy developments, while United Nations reports indicated a re-invigorated partnership for climate-related agriculture endeavors across the greater South Asian region.