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| Title: | Biocultural diversity, climate change and livelihood security of the Adi community: Grassroots conservators of eastern Himalaya Arunachal Pradesh |
| Authors: | Singh, Ranjay K
Bhowmik, SN
Pandey, CB |
| Keywords: | Adi tribe
Traditional environmental knowledge
Climate change
Biocultural resources
Livelihood sustainability
Arunachal Pradesh |
| Issue Date: | Jan-2011 |
| Publisher: | NISCAIR-CSIR, India |
| IPC Code: | Int. Cl.8: A01C5/00, E04H, G01W |
| Abstract: | The role of Indigenous
and tribal peoples and their traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) is now greatly appreciated and recognized in
developing location specific strategies and mitigation plans for coping with
climate change. The goal of this research, based on six years of collaborative
work with Adi tribal peoples from 14 villages of East and Upper Siang
districts of Arunachal Pradesh, was to record Adi knowledge and experiences relating to biocultural resources and
their interactions with climate change and livelihood sustainability. Data were
collected using conventional interviews and village workshops. A total of 700 Adi
people participated in these workshops, while two elderly Adi women were observed and interviewed
over the course of 7 days, to document their deep knowledge on the subject.
Results indicated that Adi people are
rich in knowledge relating to biocultural resources that play a pivotal role in
coping with weather anomalies and any abrupt climatic changes in order to
sustain their livelihoods. People are aware about climate change and its
potential to threaten heir biocultural resources and livelihoods. To combat
future climate change and ensure sustainable lifeways, they are interested in
establishing ‘community reserve forests’ (CRF) within undisturbed community
forest landscapes. These could be either at an individual or community level or
even at both levels, provided that environmental agencies are able to link
these ‘CRFs’ with REDD programs and that rewards and incentives are given to Adi
tribe. The future of the Adi tribe’s biocultural resources and
livelihood sustainability depends very much on their TEK
and their active role in research, planning and policy implementation for
climate change mitigation and adaptation. |
| Page(s): | 39-56 |
| CC License: |  CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India |
| ISSN: | 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print) |
| Source: | IJTK Vol.10(1) [January 2011]
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