Sustainable livelihoods &amp; adaptation to climate change
Creators: name: Dhruv Puri
name: Kunal Prasad
Publisher: name: Gates Open Research
Year: 2019

description: Globally, agriculture is one of the most climate-sensitive of all economic sectors. Among the developing nations, India is one of the biggest agro-based economies in the world, where nearly 70% rural households rely on it for their sustenance. <br><br>Climate change will not only make it more difficult to feed the projected 10 billion people by 2050 but its impact is already being felt in the form of reduced yields and more frequent extreme weather events that affect crops and livestock.<br>Farming communities in developing nations thus need to be empowered to build climate resilience, to not just safeguard their livelihoods, but also to ensure that agriculture remains productive and sustainable<br><br>CropIn Technology is the chosen Agtech partner in a public-private project with the Government of India and World Bank for brining technology to build climate resilience to the doorsteps of Indian farmers, spanning an area of 1650+ hectares.<br>The Sustainable Livelihoods and Adaptation to Climate Change (SLACC) Project for India in association with the Government of India’s National Rural Livelihoods Project (NRLP) and supported by World Bank, aims to empower farmers to adopt climate resilient practices and adapt to the climatic changes and unpredictability.<br><br>CropIn’s mobile application ‘SmartFarm’ provides a digital platform to monitor and capture farm-level data and deliver adaptive real-time advisories for climate-smart agriculture in regions that are otherwise prone to weather extremities. CropIn’s first-of-its-kind advisory platform has thus far transformed the lives of over 8,000 farmers in the 244 targeted villages and has digitized over 19,600 farm plots across 77 crop varieties in the last 2 years.<br><br>CropIn’s platform has provided a holistic approach for farmers to diversify their income opportunities from farming, aquaculture, livestock and more.<br><br>There is a need for bringing technology for climate resilience to the doorsteps of India’s smallholder farmers, which is where CropIn has stepped in and provided the following solutions: Climate-smart advisory module develops season-wise crop configurations for all the major crops CropIn helped in scheduling and monitoring farm activities to implement complete traceability Seven-day weather forecasts derived from the best available weather observation systems and forecast models. CropIn helped educate farmers on the adoption of the right package of practices and inputs Weather-based advisory to SLACC farmers in the local language CropIn helped devise systems for monitoring crop health and harvest estimation Web and mobile-based advisory dashboards to enable the Village Resource Professionals to get important insights Furthermore, CropIn’s involvement through Government of India's Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana (MKSP) scheme has ensured that an equal opportunity has been provided to women farmers to encourage economic participation and active decision-making. <br>Although climate change is inevitable, the successful implementation of this project has given government bodies, development agencies, and other agribusinesses, who are adversely affected by climate change, a clear vision to build climate-smart digital agriculture.