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Adaptation Fund

Uttarakhand

Name of the Project: Climate Smart Actions and Strategies in North
Western Himalayan Region for Sustainable Livelihoods of
Agriculture-Dependent Hill Communities
Project Focus: Agriculture
Location: 10 Villages in Champawat District of Uttarakhand State
Project Finance: USD 0.97 Million (Rs. 5.82 crore)
Duration: 4 Years (2015-2019); Extended upto 2021; Completed
Name of Executing Entity: BAIF Development Research Foundation
Project Beneciaries: 1357 families of Small and Marginal farmers having
land holding < 2 ha

Project Area : e Himalayas are considered to be among the most vulnerable to climate change. Nestled amid the
Himalayas, the state of Uttarakhand has varying climatic conditions due to variation in altitude and spatial distribution
of the rainfall. e net increase in temperature of the state has ranged from 1.7°C to 2.2°C and rainfall from 5% to
13% with respect to the 1970s (Uttarakhand SAPCC, 2014). Climate Change has been reported to cause receding of
glaciers, changes in snowline, erratic rainfall, irregular winter rains, rise in temperature, increasing intensity and
frequency of ash oods, etc.

Champawat is the hill district of Uttarakhand spread over 1,766 km
area, has 2.59 lakh human population, and 82 % workers engaged in
agriculture and allied sector. Only 9 % area of the total sown area is
irrigated in the district.

Poor soil health and soil erosion
coupled with heavy rainfall and
landslides has been observed to
adversely aect the agriculture and
ecosystem productivity in the
region. To address the above
vulnerabilities, the given project
endeavors to improve the adaptive
capacity of rural small and
marginal farmers including hill
women by using combination of
Climate Smart Farming
Technologies, Social Engineering Water Stress and Need for
and Capacity Building Processes.
Scientic Crop Planning

Drying Spring in the
project district

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Climate Change Interventions of
NABARD – A Glimpse