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Gender-sensitive Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change: Drawing on Indian Farmers’ Experiences
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
FAOSummary:
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and local Indian institutions in Andhra Pradesh addressed the gender aspects of coping with climate variability and long-term change in the project Gender-sensitive Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change: Drawing on Indian Farmers’ Experiences.
The project captured how men and women farmers in drought-prone districts perceived and responded to seasonal climate variability and long term changes in the climate. Participatory focus group discussions and a quantitative survey were used to collect the data.
Expected Outputs:
*To characterize the local climate conditions and risks, to identify trends in climate variability over the past four decades (according to recorded data); to compare how recorded data corresponds to men and women farmers’ perceptions.
*To understand how men and women in farm households perceive and experience climatic shifts and how this is linked to food security.
*To identify the coping strategies that men and women farmers utilize in order to ensure a measure of food security in response to climate variability; to understand the resources and decision making processes utilized, and to assess the related outcomes for food security.
*To identify the institutions that support farmer decision making with regard to climate, agriculture and food security and to assess the extent to which institutional support is available, accessible and usable by men and women.
(5) To develop a replicable methodology for examining the gender dimensions of farmer responses to climatic variability and change
Contacts:
Gender, Equity and Rural Employment Division at FAO (ESW)
Project Status:
ClosedPrimary Beneficiaries:
Farmers,
Australian farmers to lose water to restore rivers
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Reuters
James Grubel
Farmers would lose more than a third of irrigation water in Australia's major food bowl, the Murray-Darling, under a plan released on Friday to restore ailing rivers, posing a new headache for the Labor minority government.
The move could see the value of cotton production cut by 25 percent, and farmers and irrigators have warned of farm closures, massive job losses and high
Mayan village in Mexico impacted by climate change
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Associated Press
TABI, Mexico (AP) - The first time Araceli Bastida Be heard the phrase "climate change" was on TV two years ago. Then she began to understand why strange things had been happening in her village.
Tabi was in its second year of drought, and the corn that sustains the village was left stunted on the stalks.
The rain doesn’t come on time anymore poverty, vulnerability, and climate variability in Ethiopia
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2010-06-21 21:07
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This paper is part of a series of research reports written to inform the public debate on development and humanitarian policy issues.
In 2009, Oxfam commissioned research on climate variability in four woredas, or administrative areas, in Ethiopia.
Feeding the Hope: The United Nations’ and International Community’s Response to Reducing the Consequences of Drought in the Republic of Moldova
Submitted by andrea on Thu, 2009-12-24 04:11
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Participatory Training and Extension in Farmers' Water Management (CD-ROM)
Submitted by Claudia.Hiepe on Thu, 2009-11-26 15:27
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This CD-ROM provides guidelines, procedures and relevant material for the development of a participatory training and extension programme for technical staff, extension workers and other stakeholders, to assist farmers to take charge of water management at field and scheme level and adopt in a sustainable manner appropriate water technologies.
Adaptation to the effects of drought and climate change in Agro-ecological Zone 1 and 2 in Zambia
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
UNDPSummary:
The objective of this project is to develop the adaptive capacity of subsistence farmers and rural communities to withstand climate change in Agro-ecological Regions I and II in Zambia.
The Zambia National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) highlights that the strong dependence of Zambian communities on rain-fed agriculture renders them particularly vulnerable to climate change (including variability) effects such as drought, flooding, extreme temperatures and prolonged dry spells, which precipitate widespread crop failure, negatively impact food and water security and, ultimately, affec
Project Components:
1. Capacity development to conduct and apply climate risk assessments to planning processes
2. Demonstraton activity: Adaptive practices in water and land management in drought-prone areas piloted
3. Replication of demonstration projects
4. Lessons learned componentExpected Outputs:
1.1 Number of government planners and private sector trained on climate risk management for improved agricultural productivity.
1.2 Effective Early Warning Systems developed to enhance preparedness and reduce climate-related risks
1.3 Economic impact assessment on the adaptation value of climate risk information to protect agricultural incomes from climate change effects.2.1 Techniques for soil and water conservation as well as soil improvement tested for their ability to improve the productivity of small-scale agriculture.
2.2 Crop diversification practices tested for their ability to improve resilience of farmers to drought.
2.3 Alternative livelihoods tested for their ability to diversify incomes away from maize production.
2.4 Community-based water capacity and irrigation systems improved or developed to test their ability to raise agricultural productivity.3.1 Awareness of climate change risks and to the economic value of adaptation responses raised among policy- and decision-makers.
3.2 National policy dialogues conducted to discuss project findings in relation to cost effectiveness of piloted options
3.3 Policies that require adjustments to promote adaptation identified and reviewed.4.1 Knowledge and lessons learned to support implementation of adaptation measures compiled and disseminated
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Project Contact Person
Jessica Troni
Regional Technical Advisor
UNDP/GEF
+27 (012) 354 8056
jessica.troni@undp.orgProject Status:
CEO EndorsedPrimary Beneficiaries:
subsistence farmers and rural communities
