Session 5D on Day 3 (November 8, 2025) of the International Conference on Agrarian Change was chaired by Pallavi Chavan (Director, Department of Economic and Policy Research, Reserve Bank of India). The discussant was Kiran Kumar Kakarlapudi (Assistant Professor, Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation, Thiruvananthapuram). Speakers included Ashish Chouhan (PhD Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati), Anjaly Unnikrishnan (Energy, Environment and Climate Change Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies), Aparajay Kumar Singh (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata), Ishawar Choudhry (Research Scholar, Climate Change and Agriculture, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani), and Rakesh Gomaji Nannewar (Senior Project Associate, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru).

The session focused on crop insurance, agrometeorological advisories, carbon markets, and climate change adaptation.