Chennai:
In a bid to ensure food security, India and Norway is
working on a four-year project to improve the climate change adaptive capacity
of agriculture and water sectors in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
The
main objective is to map vulnerability, gaps and preparedness to address
impacts of climate change on agriculture and water sectors besides to select
and apply suitable climate and hydrology scenarios.
The
Rs 25 crore project ClimaAdapt will initially focus on Erode and Trichy
districts of Tamil Nadu and Nalgonda and Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh,
according to Norwegian minister of agriculture and food Trygve Slagsvold Vedum.
Speaking
during the inaugural session of ‘ClimaAdapt programme and National consultation
on coastal and marine biodiversity conservation in India: The future we want’,
he said the programme funded by Norwegian embassy in New Delhi links research,
innovation and capacity building.
“It
provides a unique opportunity where farmers, women and other key stakeholders
can interact with scientists to formulate the best adaption methods,” the
minister, who is on his maiden visit to India, said.
Interestingly,
this comes in the wake of Norway establishing an initiative to support adaptation
of the agriculture sector in developing countries to climate change.
ClimaAdapt
involves a well established consortium of six main partners. The selected
adaptation measures will be implemented in identified cluster of villages in
the two states and based on the experience the upscaling methodologies to
implement at a systematic level will be developed. This programme is expected
to improve adaptive capacity of the farmers besides increased public-private
sector involvement in upscaling adaptation measures.
Box:
Project
outcomes:
1.
Upscaling
methodologies developed for selected adaptation measures in AP and TN
integrated into the state climate and sector plans.
2.
Policy
inputs from ClimaAdapt integrated into state climate and sector adaptation
framework in AP and TN
3.
Linkages
between research, innovation and capacity building in AP and TN
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