In the context of India's preparation for Climate-Smart Agriculture, consider the following statements :
- 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.The project of CCAFS is carried out under Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) headquartered in France.
- 3.The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in India is one of the CGIAR's research centres.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
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Answer: D. Statement 1 is correct: Climate-Smart Villages in India were part of the CCAFS research programme. Statement 2 is correct: CCAFS ran under CGIAR, whose System Organization was headquartered in Montpellier, France (as of 2021). Statement 3 is correct: ICRISAT at Hyderabad is a CGIAR research centre. So all three.
Watch for: Students guess CGIAR is US-based or doubt the France headquarters.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Wrong because ICRISAT is also a CGIAR centre.
- B. Wrong because the Climate-Smart Village approach is part of CCAFS.
- C. Wrong because CGIAR's headquarters was in France.
Source to check: CGIAR website (cgiar.org); CCAFS Climate-Smart Villages programme pages; ICRISAT website
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