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Improving
Policy Responses to Interactions between Global Environmental Change and Food
Security across the
Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP)
(CRP2006-01NMY)
The
research will address key technical, policy and resource management concerns
related to how GEC-induced changes in water availability and access will affect
the food systems which underpin food security in the Indo-Gangetic Plains
(IGP).
The
project will help to:
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Raise
awareness among the policy community and resource managers in the IGP of the
regional food security issues
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Integrate
natural, social, economic and policy research in developing decision support
system to help make informed policy for food security and environmental
management
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Enhance
capacity in the natural resource management and livelihood research sectors
related to food security
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Consolidate
regional collaboration across the four countries, linked to other APN countries
and the international research community through ESSP-GECAFS. Research outputs
will also address several issues relating to climate change and food security.
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Project Focus
GEC-induced changes in water availability and access,
and food systems
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Project Leader
Dr. Ajaya Dixit
Nepal
Water Conservation Foundation (NWCF)
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Participating
Countries
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Bangladesh
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India
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Pakistan
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Sri
Lanka
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Australia
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New Zealand
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U.S.A.
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Pakistan
Part
Counterpart from
Pakistan
:
Mr. Kashif M. Salik
(Research
Fellow, GCISC)
Duration of the Project: 3
years (2006-2009)
Starting Date:
August
26, 2006
Financial Award for
Pakistan
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Year 1
: $ 4,875
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First installment : $ 3,900
(released on 05/01/07)
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Second installment: $ 975
(to be released in July 2007)
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Rationale
A broad
conceptualization of food systems builds upon other disciplinary or sectoral
studies, but the integration of these studies into a comprehensive
understanding for
the IGP is something new. An
integrated analysis is required to assess vulnerability to GEC in the context
of socio-economic and political changes. Some studies have looked into the
impact of climate change and globalization on agriculture. The methods and
findings of these studies emphasized the importance of local level studies and
careful data collection. Although there has been discussion about reliance of
food production in the IGP on water availability, little has been done to
examine the links between water availability, water quality and other aspects
of food security, namely access and utilization.
This study will look into these interactions.
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Objectives of the Study
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To identify the vulnerability of case study food systems in
the IGP to GEC in the context of socio-economic issues/changes
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To enhance capacity within APN scientific community to raise
awareness within the policy making community of the vulnerability of case study
food system to GEC
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To improve policy formulation by district and national institutions for
identifying adaptation strategies to reduce the vulnerability of IGP food
system to GEC
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Proposed Project
Methodologies
The studies will involve desk
literature reviews, visits to relevant institutions working on GEC and water
resource issues in the study sites, and report writing.
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Mode of Operation of the Project
In
Pakistan
, Mr.
Kashif M. Salik will coordinate the study at IGP Site
1-District Gujrat in Pakistan Punjab. The GCISC has been
involved in various studies on irrigation management in the
Punjab
area, as well as studies on water management and poverty. The
study for this project will use secondary sources of
information and data from department of hydrology and
meteorology.
The
project members will plan, organize, conduct and supervise collection, review
and synthesis of relevant information available both in published and
unpublished form, contact relevant institutions and experts to obtain
additional information, and put together all the above information in a report
according to mutually agreed format.
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Concise timeline
August 28, 2006 – August
25, 2007. Existing information will be gathered on how GEC will affect surface
and groundwater hydrology, and further assess how these changes in water
availability will affect food systems.
Late
September 2006. Regional Workshop to compare and contrast the five case
studies, and outline a collaborative research agenda for continuing research.
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Expected outputs/products
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Current state of knowledge about how GEC may affect
water resources at the selected sites in IGP, and how these changes will affect
food systems
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A regional synthesis of the five case studies
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A proposed collaborative regional agenda for
continued research which will ensure sustainability of the activities, which
are already linked through GECAFS
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