§ Climate change impact, adaptation and mitigation

ü Development and identification of Climate Resilient Agriculture practices for improving productivity and income of farming communities; building adaptive capacity and resilience to climatic risks as well as reduce or sequester GHGs

ü Assess impacts, adaptation and vulnerability of agriculture; and develop and modify the adaptation and mitigation strategies for policy inputs and National Communications to UNFCCC

ü Carbon, nitrogen, water, energy and ecological footprint

ü Applied nitrogen dynamics, losses and management strategies for different cropping systems

ü Identification of sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in agriculture

ü  Emission factor development, spatial and temporal inventories of greenhouse gases emissions from agro-ecosystems for policy input and National Communications to UNFCCC

§ Development of simulation models, forecasting and vulnerability assessment

ü Development of simulation models for various crops, cropping systems; development of various types of models including geo-spatial models, AI, ML-Simulation hybrid models, etc.

ü Development of Decision Support Systems, tools for agro-ecosystem analysis, ecosystem services, global and regional climate models data, etc.

ü Development of GCM/RCM ensemble-based agricultural season climate scenarios

ü Simulating spatial and temporal impacts of climate scenarios, adaptation gains, options and vulnerability of agro-commodities and systems for policy support and reporting to UNFCCC through MoEF&CC.

ü Projections on climate change impacts on major agricultural crops

ü Developing adaptive strategies for agricultural planning and resource management

ü Modelling spatial GHG emissions from

ü Modelling carbon and nitrogen dynamics, greenhouse gas emission and mitigation strategies

§ Environmental Pollution (soil, air and water pollution)

ü Monitoring of air pollutants and assessment of their impact on agriculture

ü Water pollution analysis, phyco-remediation of wastewater and application in agriculture for irrigation

ü Monitoring of heavy metals contaminations in crops and vegetables and risk assessment

ü Development of protocols/policy for sustainable use of waste and effluents

ü Quantification of crop residue burning and air pollution impact on agriculture

ü Identification PAHs contamination and their remediation strategies

ü Quantification of micro-plastics in environment and impact assessment on agriculture

ü Identification and impact studies wrt emerging pollutants

§ Waste management, utilization and value addition

ü Identification of feasibility options of utilization of agricultural wastes

ü Development of strategies for the use of agro-industry waste for agricultural application

ü Biogas production, enrichment and utilization

ü  Improvement in physicochemical, biological and enzymatic processes of saccharification

ü Use of different crop straw for production of biogas, value based bio-chemicals, bioplastic formation, biochar and briquettes

ü Long-term impacts of crop residue incorporation on carbon stock and fractions

§ Quantification of ecosystem services and their valuation

ü Quantification of different ecosystem services from agroecosystems

ü Identification of affecting factors and restoration options, and valuation of ecosystem services

§ Development of nano- and climate smart fertilizers

ü Development of climate smart nano-fertilizers for improving the nutrient use efficiency and reduce environmental losses and impacts

ü Application of different radionuclide in agriculture