This course provides a holistic exposure to understanding of concepts and inter-relationships among agro-climatic conditions, natural resources, food, agri and allied production systems and livelihoods of rural people. The rural resources include land, soil, climate, water, livestock and forests; the production systems encompass agriculture, horticulture, sericulture, forestry, animal husbandry & dairying, fisheries along with the non-farm activities that contribute to the livelihoods of rural people. The livelihoods of people are dependent on the production systems they have developed subject to the constraints imposed by the quality of natural resources and technology. Course helps to appreciate linkages between food and agriculture production systems to lives and livelihoods impacted by climate change and achievement of sustainable development goals.