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poverty alleviation
Climate variability and climate change: implications for chronic poverty
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Tue, 2011-11-22 13:43
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The focus of the paper is on India. It looks at projections of climate change under different climate models and at how these changes will alter India’s vulnerability to the climate. In particular it notes that it is not necessarily those poorest states which are the most vulnerable to future projected changes. The paper then focuses on the current coping strategies for climate variability by the chronically poor and highlights some of the barriers to and opportunities for successful adaptation.
Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Management (SLEM) Partnership Program
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Project details
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Implementing Agency:
World BankImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Indian Ministry of Environment & Forest, Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of AgricultureSummary:
The Partnership's global environment objective is to restore and maintain globally significant ecosystem functions and services through enhanced local capacity, restoration of degraded areas, and dissemination, replication and scaling-up of successful SLEM best practices within and across individual Indian states. Its overall development objective is to contribute to poverty alleviation in India by promoting enhanced efficiency of natural resource use, improved land and ecosystem productivity, and reduced vulnerability to extreme weather events (droughts, floods).
Project Components:
The overall objective of the SLEM partnership is to contribute to poverty alleviation in India by
promoting enhanced efficiency of natural resource use, improved land and ecosystem productivity, and
reduced vulnerability to extreme weather events, including the effect of climate change.The immediate
objectives of SLEM–CPP are the following:(i) Prevention and/or control of land degradation by restoration of degraded (agricultural and forested)
lands and biomass cover and make sustainable use of natural resources in selected project areas;
(ii) Enhancement of local capacity and institution building to strengthen land and ecosystem
management;
(iii) Facilitation of knowledge dissemination and application of national and international good practices
in SLEM within and across states; and
(iv) Replication and scaling-up of successful land and ecosystem management practices and
technologies to maximise synergies across the UN Conventions on Biological Diversity (CBD),
Climate Change (FCCC), and Combating Desertification (CCD) conventions.Contacts:
For Further Information Contact:
Project Director
SLEM - PIU
Directorate of Extension
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
P. O. New Forest, Dehradun, Uttarakhand - 248006
Phone: +91 -135-2752005/2224819
email: bhardwaja@icfre.org; slemtfo@gmail.comProject Status:
Program Council Approved - Council Endorsed
Sustainable Land and Ecosystem Management (SLEM) Partnership Program
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Project details
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Implementing Agency:
World BankImplementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Indian Ministry of Environment & Forest, Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of AgricultureSummary:
The Partnership's global environment objective is to restore and maintain globally significant ecosystem functions and services through enhanced local capacity, restoration of degraded areas, and dissemination, replication and scaling-up of successful SLEM best practices within and across individual Indian states. Its overall development objective is to contribute to poverty alleviation in India by promoting enhanced efficiency of natural resource use, improved land and ecosystem productivity, and reduced vulnerability to extreme weather events (droughts, floods).
Project Components:
The overall objective of the SLEM partnership is to contribute to poverty alleviation in India by
promoting enhanced efficiency of natural resource use, improved land and ecosystem productivity, and
reduced vulnerability to extreme weather events, including the effect of climate change.The immediate
objectives of SLEM–CPP are the following:(i) Prevention and/or control of land degradation by restoration of degraded (agricultural and forested)
lands and biomass cover and make sustainable use of natural resources in selected project areas;
(ii) Enhancement of local capacity and institution building to strengthen land and ecosystem
management;
(iii) Facilitation of knowledge dissemination and application of national and international good practices
in SLEM within and across states; and
(iv) Replication and scaling-up of successful land and ecosystem management practices and
technologies to maximise synergies across the UN Conventions on Biological Diversity (CBD),
Climate Change (FCCC), and Combating Desertification (CCD) conventions.Contacts:
For Further Information Contact:
Project Director
SLEM - PIU
Directorate of Extension
Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education
P. O. New Forest, Dehradun, Uttarakhand - 248006
Phone: +91 -135-2752005/2224819
email: bhardwaja@icfre.org; slemtfo@gmail.comProject Status:
Program Council Approved - Council Endorsed
Strengthening the management of natural resources in the impoverished Blantyre North area and enhancing the communities’ resilience to climate change adaptation
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Project details
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Forestry Research Institute of Malawi (FRIM)Summary:
Poverty and insecure livelihoods force people to pursue natural resource management practices that are ultimately destructive of their long-term livelihoods, their adaptive capacity and the resilience of the environment. As a recent IUCN paper has emphasized “Long-term efforts to enhance local level adaptive capacity – though increasingly recognized as critical-are broadly lacking” (Abramovitz et al n.d.).
Project Components:
To implement adaptation and management strategies identified through participatory and action research with climate change vulnerable communities in the Blantyre North and its catchment areas to improve livelihoods and enhance resilience to climate change.
Expected Outputs:
1. To strengthen the sustainable management of natural resources in Blantyre north
2. To facilitate and help build cross-sectoral natural resource management and planning for climate change throughout the impoverished Blantyre North area
3. To improve household adaptive capacity in the Blantyre North hotspots
4. To develop sustainable and natural resources friendly climate change adaptation/resilience strategies
Contacts:
Principal Actors:
Henry Utila, hutila@frim.org.mw
Policy Advisor Climate Change & Development Programme, UNDP United Nations Office in Nairobi: Johnson Nkem, johnson.nkem@undp.org
UNEP Focal Point: Bubu Jallow, Bubu.jallow@unep.org
UNDP Focal Point: Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, pradeep.kurukulasuriya@undp.org
UNEP Risoe Centre Focal Point: Anne Olhoff, olho@risoe.dtu.dkProject Status:
The projects are in their initial phase of implementation
Indian foreign policy combines commitment to national values with dynamic adaptation to international environment
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OneIndia
The United Progressive Alliance Government on Tuesday stated that India's foreign policy has combined firm commitment to country's core national values with dynamic adaptation to changes in the international environment.
Mentioning about Govt.'s initiatives for Overseas Indians undertaken in the last one year, the executive summary of the UPA-II's "Report to the People" stated:
"The UPA government, in its second term, pursues its foreign policy objectives wh
