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• Vítor João Pereira Domingues Martinho 2  

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Any assessment of the agricultural sector and the respective policies worldwide increase its robustness if considering the Indian framework. In fact, India is a populous country in South Asia with great changes to meet the demand for food of its population. Some solutions have been discussed; however, the questions here are the relationships between the need for higher food production and the environmental impacts. The climate-smart agriculture (CSA) approaches may have some solutions; nonetheless, the threats brought by global warming are real and challenging. Taking into account India's food requirements, the contributions of agricultural policy are analysed to support the identification of solutions through a systematic review based on items with higher total link strength. As main conclusions, of referring the attention of the Indian agricultural policies with the new approaches of the CSA, water management, public health, agrobiodiversity, agricultural and policy transitions, trade liberalisation and the Asian green revolution.

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This work is funded by National Funds through the FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., within the scope of the project Refª UIDB/00681/2020. Furthermore we would like to thank the CERNAS Research Centre and the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu for their support.

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