Global Climate Change agenda and Processes; Scouting for Traditional Grassroot Adaptation Strategies in Arid and Semi-Arid Agriculture of India

The paper attempts to explore how a global Climate Change agenda and processes (covering concerns, debates, negotiations, research-based projections, impacts and actions broadly collectively termed as "global discourse" in this paper), can help enhance the farmers' adaptations against impacts of climate change in arid and semi-arid regions of India, which is potentially more vulnerable to climate change.