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    Climate change impact on human health
    (CABI, 2024) Singh, Samar; Chhatwal, Himani; Pandey, Ashutosh
    Variations in environmental conditions caused by natural or anthropogenic activities have been exhibiting their impacts on climate change in the form of heat waves, drought, acid rain, floods, and storms throughout the decades. The resulting climate change has perturbated the interrelated threats to the ecosystem. Climate change affects human health, causing mental illness, undernutrition, and cardiovascular, respiratory, and infectious diseases. This outcome is observed in terms of worldwide disturbance in social dynamics such as health status, socioeconomic status, and public health infrastructure. This chapter explores the adverse climate conditions and highlights footprints on human health. Strategies to reduce the catastrophic impact of climate change on humans have been discussed in the latter sections.
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    Hotspots associated with climate change and food security risks
    (CABI, 2024) Chhatwal, Himani; Singh, Samar; Pandey, Ashutosh
    Climate change is an emerging problem, threatening nations at a global stage. Our knowledge about the impact of climate change on agriculture has grown over the past two decades, but recently, it has been found that its effects are even more deep-rooted. Anthropogenic and natural activities are increasing global temperatures at an alarming rate, affecting crop productivity. Extreme weather events will impact food supply, stability, and access. In the current times of increasing population, when wholesome food production is a global concern, climate change becomes an inevitable issue that no nation can escape from. This chapter highlights the major hotspots of the world which face an immediate threat from climate change. It also covers the perils of changing climate on the food production system and the adaptation strategies to overcome it. The need is to focus on developing immediate solutions to develop a sustainable food supply in the future.
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    Advances in wheat genomics and its potential in ensuring food security in the scenario of climate change
    (Indian National Science Academy, 2014) Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan; Parida, Swarup K.; Prasad, Manoj
    Prevalence of hunger and under-nutrition among the world population at alarming rates challenges the food security. Further, the instability in global wheat production in past two years and the projection of continuing decrease in wheat inventories predominantly due to climate change add-up to food insecurity. The global climate change imposing biotic and abiotic stress made the crop improvement more challenging. However, the timely release of wheat genome sequence holds the promise of evading these tribulations, provided the researchers and breeders pertinently utilize the genome information. In view of this, this short-review highlights the intact insights for the wheat research community on how to implement the genome sequence data in breeding and engineering transgenic wheat with enhanced biotic and abiotic stress tolerance.