Transcript APDAI A Pilot initiative on Climate resilience

APDAI
A Pilot initiative on Climate
resilience
Objective
• Enhancing drought adaptation capacity of affected
communities and reducing their vulnerability to drought in
the long-term through
• developing community manageable adaptation models
• extending appropriate policy support for rain-fed farming &
sustainability of the models developed
Project Coverage
• 2 predominantly rainfed districts : Anantapur and
Mahabubnagar
• 3+2 Mandals
• 25 village organisations covering 43 villages
Area of intervention…
 Production systems (Agril. and Livestock)
 Natural Resource Management including
groundwater management
 Opening alternate livelihood options
 Addressing fodder issues
 Capacity building of community and
Institutional support
Operational strategy:
State Policy
Options
Scaling up in
beyond project
villages
KEY ELEMENTS:
- Building on existing
mainstream programs and
filling gaps from APDAI Pilot
Funds
- Convergence
Designing
Pilot
Initiatives
Participatory
Situation
Analysis with
stake holders
Scaling up in
project villages
Testing policy
options, larger
systems, capacity
building
Evolving institutional mechanisms,
processes, procedures, operational
systems
Conceptualisation, identify requirements and
analyze gaps in the existing programs
AP DAI Pilot Initiatives
• Initially started with several smaller pilots;
later consolidated into..
a) Diversified farming systems
b) Livestock Development Initiatives for DA
c) Groundwater management for security of
rainfed farms
1. Diversified Farming Systems (DFS)
• Soil, moisture and water conservation
• Enhancing soil organic matter and soil fertility
• Biomass development (fodder and green manure
trees)
• Promoting inter crops and crop-diversification
• Promoting millets, horticulture & agronomic
measures
• Maintaining buffer seed stocks
• Access to critical irrigation
• NPM – Non-Pesticide Management
Making a block area of 100 ha resilient to climate change by integrated measures
2. Livestock Development Initiative for DA
• Reforms in the Sheep-Rearers Cooperatives
• Promoting more resilient local Deccani Breed of Sheep :
• Community Managed Livestock Insurance : With United
India Insurance Company Ltd. For ram-lamb rearing
• Establishing Fodder Banks : Organise Common Interest
Groups of fodder deficit households and establishing
mechanisms for sourcing and improving fodder.
• Availing economic opportunities in Livestock rearing:
– Promoting Back Yard Poultry (Chick rearing Centers)
– Bull-calf rearing
About 10,000 birds for backyard poultry & more than 30 cycles of Chick Rearing, 200 households
involved in ram-lamb rearing, services to about 50,000 small ruminants. . .
3. Groundwater Management for Security of
Rainfed Farms
Objectives:
• Securing larger rainfed areas through extension of
protective irrigation
Process/ Strategy:
• A block of area with bore wells, irrigated land and rain-fed land
is identified
• Farmers are encouraged to pool their bore wells – project
promises to establish a Pipeline-Grid on cost sharing basis (grant + farmers’s
share + loan), & source micro-irrigation infrastructure.
• Grants conditional on ..
– Water available for protective irrigation for all the identified rain-fed
area in the block covering even non-bore well owners
– No new bore wells for at least 10 years
Area Approach:
Extensive protective
irrigation
Irrigated Dry
Intensive
irrigation
CHELLAPUR, Daultabad, Mahabubnagar
5 borewells – pooled
5 farmers, 48 acres total
land
-No new borewells for at
least 10 years
-MOU signed by MRO
-Rest-one BW every day
(reduce usage by about
20%)
Coverage of all rainfed
lands
Common operation
Commissioned in 2007
Gorantlavandlapalli:
Nallacheruvu, Anantapur
72 farmers in 370 acres
33 borewells
Entire village has agreed to
collectivize
- No new borewells
- All rainfed land must be
covered
- non-borewell owners must
also be covered
- Cost sharing
Compost preparation
Out come and Achievements:

Road map for pilot initiative & scaling up designs
emerged
 Community Based Organizations (CBOs),
women groups were strengthened
to take up all these initiatives on their own
 Social capital in terms of various CIGs/SHGs
were developed to be used as platform for
various developmental programs
Out come and Achievements:
New programs emerged in convergence & Integration
- Enhancing Fish Production in Small Water
Bodies with dept. of Fisheries, NREGS and
SERP in 300 tanks in three districts
- Common Property Resource management
with NREGS in 200 villages
- Scaling up of pilots in IWMP
LESSONS LEARNT
•
Adaptation requires well functioning government
structures and intensive and inclusive dialogue with
all stakeholders
• A strong synergy between natural resource
management and livelihood development with a
focus on diversification, conservation, regeneration
and creation of resource buffers to develop climate
resilience in dry lands.
• Economic viability for the individual farmer is
important
• NREGS funds can be effectively used for drought
adaptation