Impact of COVID-19 and Climate Change on Indian Agriculture

Abstract

Climate change and pandemics both disrupt global food supply chains on their own. Natural and human disasters, such as droughts, cyclones and pandemics, have become more common in the twenty-first century. Their combined effects can result in severe economic stress and malnutrition, especially in developing nations. Understanding how climate change and pandemics interact and developing strategies to address them both together and separately is critical to ensuring a stable global food supply. This paper examines the consequences of these disasters in terms of food and agriculture and then discusses how they are compounded. We discuss the implication of policy and suggest research topics for the future.