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Asked 9 August 2014

What role do women play in meeting the challenges of climatic change in South Asia.

In many south Asian countries including India, Nepal, Bangladesh, women farmers are playing an important role in agriculture. With effects of climatic change more visible and severe than ever, women are evolving their own mechanisms to fight the after effects to mitigate the risk and uncertainty. What are your views on challenges faced by the women and strategies adopted by them to minimize the risk and uncertainty in agricultural production. Any links to studies on this topic are welcome.

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K. M. Singh
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University
Thank you for your detailed answer, Rk Naresh appreciate it.
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András Bozsik
University of Debrecen
Dear K.M. Singh,
This is a question of good education opportunities. Where the daughters of farmers can get good agricultural education, they can use environmentally friendly methods if they can afford them. Equal rights and democracy help to imprease the number of well trained woman farmers.
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Amartya K Saha
Archbold Biological Station
Women are far more connected to preserving their natural resources than are men, for a variety of reasons. These  range from economic (for instance in hill villages most men outmigrate for jobs while women farm), to biological (women's innate ability to nurture leads to their impassioned protection, such as Chipko). In the event of greater rainfall uncertainty as well as extreme rainfall events/droughts, forested watersheds are able to buffer watersheds by disallowing extreme runoff+soil erosion as well as prolonging dry season streamflow. Women's groups engaged in forest protection can play a critical role to locally ensure the existence of forests and their ecosystem services to buffer ill-effects of climate change. There are many other examples in lowland agriculture as well as rural economies where women's cooperative groups strengthen their financial resilience based upon sustainable natural resource based livelihoods.
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Mahmood Ahmad Khwaja
Sustainable Development Policy Institute
Get themselves educated/well informed about CC and pass on first to their own family and then other womenfolk.
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Sarwan Kumar Dubey
Emeritus Scientist ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute Karnal National Vice President Bhartiya Agro Economic Research Center New Delhi EX Head ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation (Earlier known as CSWCRTI)
Dear Sir, Woman's play a major role in climate change as in they are playing vital role in agricultural production. Only thing required to educate them about the techniques and strategies for combating CC. Thanks
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K. M. Singh
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agriculture University
Thank you for your detailed answer, Rk Naresh appreciate it.
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