climate change food security
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Climate Change and Food Security presentation made at Dr. MCR HRD to the government officials from various departments by Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy on 15 Nov 11TRANSCRIPT
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CCCEADr. MCR HRD Institute of AP
Climate Change & Food
Security
Climate Changes in India
Increase in surface temperature by 0.4 degree C over the past century.
Warming trend along the west coast, in central India, the interior peninsula, and northeastern India.
Climate Changes in India
Cooling trend in northwest India and parts of South India.
Regional monsoon variations: increased monsoon seasonal rainfall along the west coast, northern Andhra Pradesh and North-western India, decreased monsoon seasonal rainfall over eastern Madhya Pradesh, North-eastern India, and parts of Gujrat and Kerala.
Climate Changes in India
Observed trends of multi-decadal periods of more frequent droughts, followed by less severe droughts.
Studies have shown a rising trend in the frequency of heavy rain events and decrease in frequency of moderate events over central India from 1951 to 2000.
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Climate Changes in India
Records of coastal tide gauges in the north Indian ocean for the last 40 years has revealed an estimated sea level rise between 1.06-1.75 mm per year.
The available monitoring data on Himalayan glaciers indicates recession of some glaciers. 5
Per-capita Carbon –dioxide emission (Metric Tons)
USA Europe Japan China Russia India World average
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Impacts of Climate Changes
Water resourcesAgriculture and food productionHealthForestsCoastal areas Vulnerability to extreme eventsBioenergyLivelihoodsEnvironmentEconomyEcology
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National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC)
Protecting the poor and vulnerable sections of society through sustainable development sensitive to climate change
Achieving national growth objectives through a qualitative change in direction, ecological sustainability, mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.
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National Action Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC)
Efficient and cost effective strategies for end use Demand side Management.
Technologies for adaptation and mitigation of greenhouse gases emissions.
Promote sustainable development - Regulatory and voluntary mechanisms
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Core of NAPCC - National MissionsNational Solar Mission:The
NAPCC aims to promote the development and use of solar energy for power generation and other uses with the ultimate objective of making solar competitive with fossil-based energy options.
National Mission for Enhanced Energy Efficiency: Current initiatives are expected to yield savings of 10,000 MW by 2012.
These National Missions are being institutionalized by the respective Ministries/ Departments.
Core of NAPCC - National MissionsNational Mission on
Sustainable Habitat: To promote energy efficiency as a core component of urban planning.
National Water Mission: With water scarcity projected to worsen as a result of climate change, the plan sets a goal of a 20% improvement in water use efficiency through pricing and other measures.
Core of NAPCC - National MissionsNational Mission for Sustaining the
Himalayan Ecosystem: The plan aims to conserve biodiversity, forest cover, and other ecological values in the Himalayan region, where glaciers that are a major source of India’s water supply are projected to recede as a result of global warming.
National Mission for a “Green India”: Goals include the afforestation of 6 million hectares of degraded forest lands and expanding forest cover from 23% to 33% of India’s territory.
Core of NAPCC - National Missions
National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture: The plan aims to support climate adaptation in agriculture through the development of climate-resilient crops, expansion of weather insurance mechanisms, and agricultural practices.
National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change: To gain a better understanding of climate science, impacts and challenges, the plan envisions a new Climate Science Research Fund, improved climate modeling, and increased international collaboration. It also encourage private sector initiatives to develop adaptation and mitigation technologies through venture capital funds.
Source: New Indian Express
Climate Change will put
additional stress in rural
areas
Rural Livlihoods - ResourcesThe livelihoods of the rural poor are directly
dependent on environmental resources.
Are vulnerable to weather and climate variability
land Water
Forests
Energy
water stress
increases
groundwater levels recede
soil fertility declines
forest habitats
disappear.
Rural Poor Paying the most
Climate change will only exacerbate the vulnerabilities of the rural poor. As climate-sensitive, natural ecosystems deteriorate, subsistence will slip further out of reach.
India’s rural poor, who have least contributed to Climate Change, will pay some of the problem’s heaviest tolls.
In the life of a farmer climate Variability and Extreme events
are more important than climate change
Climate Change / Variability in Semi-arid regions
Precipitation is less than potential evapo-transpiration.
Low annual rainfall of 25 to 60 centimeters and having scrubby vegetation with short, coarse grasses; not completely arid.
Climate Change / Variability in Semi-arid regions
Climate Variability and extremes are an expected characteristic of semi-arid lands.
The people vulnerable to droughts, which trigger frequent subsistence crises
Increasing crop failures, dislocation, famine, poverty, increases stratification and the social inequities.
In Andhra Pradesh 2009 witness to• 50 years old drought • 100 years old flood
Food Security in India
AFPRO23 Human / Social Natural / Environmental / Physical Economic / Political
SCENARIO 1
Policies/Structures Vulnerability Adaptability
Rural Poverty Livelihoods Diversification
Appropriate Skills Water Management
Agriculture Production Water Resources
Energy
Climate Change
Community Empowerment
Bio Diversity
“VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT AND ENHANSING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY TO CLIMATE
CHANGE IN SEMI-ARID AREAS OF INDIA”
GSBC PROJECT INTEGRATED APPROACH
Major challenges of Agriculture
Climate change -
variability - extremes
Soil fertility Water management
Impact of hazardous
pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers
Burning of crop residue
Alkalinity of soils
Mahabubnagar District Rainfall Pattern
y = -4.6207x + 851.14
R2 = 0.1374
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Crop Water
Soil Climate
Energy Environment
FACILITATION RESEARCH
ACTIVITY
CAPACITYDEVELOPMENT
Field level interventions
CULTURAL
SPIRITUAL
BELIEFS
RITUALS
FESTIVALS
ALTARS
CREMATION
SOURCES (BIOMASS)
GOOD STOVES• TLUDs• Other stoves
CROP RESIDUE
POULTRY LITTER
WASTE MANAGEMENT• Sludge
PRACTICES
FOODPRESERVING FOOD
CLEANING
MEDICINE
MATTRESS
TOOTH POWDER
AIR QUALITY• CO2 / CH4
WATER TREATME
NT
AQUARIUM /
TERRARIUMS
BIOCHAR BRICKS
BIOCHAR URINALS
SOAK PITS
FILTERING MEDIA
INSECT REPELLEN
T
SOIL AMENDMENT
INCREASED PRODUCTIO
N SOIL TEMPERATUR
E REGULATED
MOISTURE RETENTION
WATER CONSERVATI
ON
NITROGEN / PHOSPHORO
US RETENTION
NURSERIESPESTICIDES
ADBSORBTION
SOIL MICROBES DENSITY
INCREASE
BIOCHAR COMPOST
EARTHWORMS INCREASE
TERMITES / ANTS
REPULSION
CARBON SEQUESTRAT
ION
ANIMALS
POULTRY - CH4
REDUCTION
LIVESTOCK - URINE AND
DUNG
FYM / COMPOST
BIOMASS
BIOCHAR
ENERGY
BIOCHARCULTURE
Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy, GEOhttp://e-geo.org | http://biocharculture.com
SOIL
BIOCHAR
BIOCHAR COMPOST
AGRICUTURE
PADDY METHANE
EMISSIONS REDUCTION
PESTICIDE & COMPLEX
CHEMICALS AFFECTS
MITIGATION
EMMISIONS REDUCTION FROM FARM
YARD MANURES
AND COMPOSTS
CROP RESIDUE
MANAGEMENT
ANIMALS
APPLICATION IN ANIMAL PLACES TO TAP URINE, SANITATION
AND EMISSIONS REDUCTION
RUMINANT ANIMALS METHANE
EMISSIONS REDUCTION
AS FEED ADDITIVE
SOAKING IN WITH
ANIMALS URINE AND EXCRETA -
VALUE ADDITION
ENERGY
SOURCE FROM
EFFICIENT TLUD COOK
STOVES
AS BY PRODUCT
FROM GASIFIER STOVES,
BOILERS ETC
CHARCOAL PRODUCTIO
N FROM BIOMASS /
WASTE MANAGEME
NT
HABITAT
BIOCHAR BRICKS
BIOCHAR IN AQUARIUMS
BIOCHAR IN POULTRY FARMS
BIOCHAR IN FRIDGES,
MATTRESSES, ETC.
SANITATION
BIOCHAR URINALS
BIOCHAR TOILETS
BIOCHAR IN CATTLE SHEDS
CLEANING PLATES / UTENSILS
BATHING
HEALTH
CLEANING TEETH
BIOCHAR TABLETS
BIOCHAR IN FOOD AS PART OF FOOD
PREPARATIONS
WATER
WATER PURIFICATION – COLOR,
ODOR, REMOVAL
OF HARMFUL
ELEMENTS, ETC.
RITUAL / SPIRITUAL
/ RELIGIOUS
/ PRACTICES
FIRE / ALTAR / YAGNAS / AGNIHOTRA
FIRE DURING
FESTIVALS
CREMATIONS
NATURAL / ARTIFICIAL FIRES IN
FORESTS / FIELDS, ETC.
BIOCHARCULTURE
BiocharcultureBiocharculture is the process of using
Biochar, including cultivation of crops
• Biochar is the charcoal produced from carbonaceous source material. Sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide in terrestrial ecosystems
• Biocharculture is one of the means to integrate for sustainable cultivation and carbon sequestration.
• Biochar is usually produced at around temperatures 300 to 600 degrees centigrade for example as found in the common biomass cook stoves.
• Because of its macromolecular structure dominated by aromatic C, Biochar is more recalcitrant to microbial decomposition than uncharred organic matter
Biocharculture Adaptation benefits
Securing the crop from
drought and climate
variabiiity
Reclaim the degraded soils,
water conservation,
Lessen the impact of hazardous
pesticides and complex
chemicals & to reduce plant
uptake.reducing
emissions and increasing the sequestration of greenhouse
gases
Conversion of crop residue
into Biochar an option and
address carbon sequestration
Increase in crop yield
increases in C, N, pH, and
available P to the plants
Impacts of Biochar last
more than 1000 years.
Temperature regulation in
the soil
Reduction in leaching of the
bio / chem fertilizers applied
Increase in the soil microbes / worms at the
biochar and soil interface
CONTROL AND BIOCHAR - OKRA
Farmers focus80% ON CROP20% ON SOIL
BIOCHAR COMPOST
APPLICATION IN THE FIELDS
OKRA - CONTROL AND BIOCHAR PLOTS
CONTROL BIOCHAR COMPOST
4 KGS 8 KGS 12 KGS
1.5 FEET 6 FEET
CONTROL
BIOCHAR
Adaptation Objective
Initiatives Requirement
1 Better management of soil moisture
SMC conservation Addition of OM (compost, manures, GM,GLM) Cover crop, mulching, residue incorporation
- Support for Labor Cost
- Biomass availability
2 Efficient use of Ground water
Minimising the ground water usage for critical irrigation. Social regulations to control competitive digging of bore wells
- Credit support
- Community support
Increasing efficiency of water use
SRI under borewell and tanks
- Comm.support- Technical support
Micro-irrigation methods (drips, spriklers)
- Credit/financial support
Strategies to be followed in designing adaptations
Adaptation Objectives
Initiatives Requirement
3 Diversify crop / farm systems
Crop diversification from wheat, paddy to millets, Maize, Sorghum
Mono cropping to intercropping, mixed cropping
Soil fertility improvement through cropping systems
Encouraging horticulture
Biomass improvement/ integration of Multi-Purpose Trees
Improved implements
Easing bullock constraint
- Drought , stress r resistant varieties
- Timely availability of seeds, contingency seeds
- Credit for seeds
- CB on technology
- Good planting material
- Timely availability of implements
- Timely availability
of drought power- Marketing support
Adaptation Objectivr
Initiatives Requirement
4 Strengthening livestock production system
Health care system for preventive diseases Strengthening sheep and goat systems through CIG concept. Strengthening Fisheries production
- Support for man power
- Technical support
5 Promoting alternate livelihood activities for income
Promoting back yard poultry Heifer rearing Ram lamb rearing actvity
- Credit support
- Technical support
6 Creating Buffers Community managed fodder banks
Seed Banks to maintain buffer seed and seeds of contingent crops
- Infrastructure
- Capacity Building
- Manpower
BIOCHAR RESULTS
GSBC PROJECT, 2009 (DORUGHT PREVAILED DURING THE GROWING SEASON)
Methane Emissions from paddy fields
Biochar – livestock urine
BIOCHAR URINALS
TAPPING NITROGEN FROM URINE OF ANIMALS AND PEOPLE USING BIOCHAR
WATER – LESS PLANTS
BIOCHAR LINKS
Terra Preta Info - Indian conextBiochar ExperimentsBiochar - Alkaline soilsBiochar - Alkaline soils reportCharcoal production
Biochar ProductionMagh Biochar RetortGEO mini metal kilnARTI - Charcoal Biochar PlantsProsopis JulifloraProsopis Juliflora report
StovesMagh series tlud woodgas or microgasifier stovesAnila
Biochar UrineBiochar Urinals
Biochar Soil lifeTermitesEarthworms
Pottery ShardsIn soils
CleaningBiochar for Cleaning
Green BuildingsBiochar Bricks
Rural TrashBiochar plus
GSBC PROJECT ON CNN
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Thank you..Dr. N. Sai Bhaskar Reddy
Chief Executive Officer [CEO], GEOECOLOGY ENERGY ORGANISATION
[GEO] http://e-geo.org