CLIMATE CHANGE

Whose Climate,

Whose Change?

Climate of Institutionalisation

• Focus on eco industry

• Ecological entrepreneurs

• Eco scientists

• Eco institutions

Government Climate

• PM’s Climate Change Plan

• Epochal Plan has no space for people and participation

• Formal Science, Conservationists, industry and bureaucracy

• Seven missions

Climate of Contradictions

• Revitalizing and upscalingcommunity-based initiatives such as joint Forestment Management and Van Panchayat committees for forest management

• Enhancing public and private investments for raising plantations for enhancing the cover and the density of forests.

Biodiversity Climate

• Creation of biodiversity registers(at national, and local levels) for documenting genetic diversity & associated trad knowledge

= commodification, IPR regime

• Effective implementation of the National Biodiversity Conservation Act, 2001

Adaptation Climate

• Not adaptation, but response.

We will fight climate change with our knowledge. We will refuse to roll over and adapt.

• Let our vulnerable communities lead the path, not once again become helpless recipients

AGRIBIZ Climate

• Focus would be on improving

productivity of rainfed

agriculture. India will spearhead efforts at the international level to work towards an ecologically sustainable green revolution.

G E Climate

• make Indian agriculture more resilient to climate change.

• develop new varieties especially thermal resistant crops and alternative cropping patterns, capable of withstanding extremes of weather, long dry spells, flooding, and variable moisture availability

G E Climate

• This will be supported by the convergence and integration of traditional knowledge and practice systems, information technology, geospatial technologies and biotechnology

G E Climate

• Use of genetic engineering to convert C-3 crops to the more carbon responsive C-4 crops to achieve greater photosynthetic efficiency for obtaining increased productivity at higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or to sustain thermal stresses

Climate Compliant Crops

• High Heat, low rainfall

• Drought conditions

• High malnutrition

• Millets as answers to all these challenges

• Wheat & rice may disappear

Heat & The Millet

• Sorghum and high heat

• Bajra and high heat

• Drought tolerance capabilities

• Natural C4 crops

• Thermally sensitive wheat

• GHG producing paddy rice

Comparision of Water Requirement of Different Crops

(in mm)

300 350450

2100

350400 500

600

1250

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500

1000

1500

2000

2500

Water requirement (mm)

Pulses

Bajra (Pearl millet)

Ragi (Finger millet)

Jowar (Sorghum millet)

Groundnut

Maize

Cotton

Rice

Sugarcane

Water guzzlers vswater conservers

Price Water Couper

• One kg of paddy needs 3-4000 litres of water

• If priced for water, will cost Rs.40 per kg @ one paise/litre; rice: Rs.70

• Every acre of paddy uses up 6 mlnlitres of water

• Imagine the savings by millets

Rain Uncertain

• Traditional millet farming systems, diversity

• Early rain, normal rain, delayed rain, low rain, heavy rain: a solution for every rain

• Non irrigated environments

• Uniform experience all across India

415.31.51.211.8Wheat

100.70.60.26.8Rice

179.31.57.67.7Little millet

312.83.3812.3Foxtail millet [KORRA]

3443.92.73.67.3Finger millet [RAGI]

3816.92.31.310.6Pearl millet [SAJJA]

Cal(mg)

Iron (mg)

Min (g)

Fibr(g)

Protein

(g)C R O P

Carbon Sequesters

• Traditional millet cropping systems

• Legumes with sorghum and millets

• Carbon sequestering capacity

Honouring Millets

* ANNOUNCE• Biodiversity bonus

• Water conservation bonus

• Climate change bonus

• Rs.5000/Ha for minor millets

• Rs.2000/Ha for major millets

• Peanuts in front of 140000 crsubsidy on chemical fertilisers

People - Climate

• Food, nutrition and health Sovereign communities

• Dryland communities where most poor and marginalised live

• Non irrigated rainfed crops

• Create multiple securities

• Honour and build communities of the poor and the marginalised

WE HAVE

THE POWER

TO HEAL

THE PLANET