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Title: Transition from Climate Risk to Climate Smart Agriculture

Title: Transition from Climate Risk to Climate Smart Agriculture. Membership. Venkataiah Chekkala - chekkalavenkataiah@gmail.com Narahari Sudhakar Reddy - Mahadenappa Sajjana Gandla - G.C. Shrotriya - Pramod Aggarwal - Dil Bahadur Gurang - gurung_dilbahadur@yahoo.com

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Title: Transition from Climate Risk to Climate Smart Agriculture

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  1. Title: Transition from Climate Risk to Climate Smart Agriculture

  2. Membership • VenkataiahChekkala - chekkalavenkataiah@gmail.com • NarahariSudhakar Reddy - • MahadenappaSajjanaGandla - • G.C. Shrotriya - • PramodAggarwal - • DilBahadurGurang - gurung_dilbahadur@yahoo.com • John Morton - • ChiraujibiAdluikeri - • Surahbi Mittal - • GopalBhatta - • LaxmiDevkota - • DurgaPrakeahManahandar -

  3. Goal: What problems does it address? How will farmers and rural communities benefit? Where? Problems to be addressed: • Managing current climatic risks in the region How farmers and communities benefit: • Knowledge on climatic risk which help fine tuning agronomic strategies • Enabling them to make better decisions for livelihoods • Improve adaptive capacity of the farmers • Where: Teraiof Nepal Northern part of India Punjab of India and Pakistan Southern part India and Sri Lanka West Bengal and Bangladesh

  4. How will you measure success – what is success? • Number of farmers using climatic services • Reduced fluctuation in production • Reduced relief requirements

  5. Which of the “good practices” discussed in the workshop will be incorporated? How? • Partnership between agricultural and climate stakeholders at multiple levels • Involve female and youth farmers considering their particular needs • Participatory production and communication of agro-meteorological information, knowledge and policy development and planning

  6. How will you involve farmer’s voices in the design? • The role of progressive and champion farmers in promoting and use of climatic information • Simple planning and decision making tools for farmers to integrate information in decision process and take action • Gender analysis of any farming community to gain maximum project effectiveness

  7. What are the potential gender or social equity challenges, and how will you address them? • Limited social data at the community level • Lack of capacity to access information and make decisions How? • Tailoring the specific needs of the females and marginalized communities • Collection of data/information • Training/exposure

  8. How will it connect with on-going climate and/or development initiatives? • Developing partnership with Pilot Project on Climate Resilient (PPCR) program in Nepal and Bangladesh • Link with Indian agro-met service and knowledge in capacity building (Centre for Excellence for capacity building) • Climate change, agriculture and food security programs in the countries How do you propose to get started? What are the next steps? • Regional planning and project writing workshop

  9. Which are the necessary partners? • Met Agencies • Agricultural Institutions at various levels • ICT players that includes media • NGOs/farmer groups/local bodies • Private Sector players • Policy Makers • Donors/International Agencies

  10. What financial and human resources are needed? Over what timeframe? How will they be provided and sustained? • To be identified in the planning workshop • Explore potential donor supports from the outside agencies Time line 5 year at least Provide Sustainability Mobilizing national Resources /SAARC

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