Sharing Experience of Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation Practices in Bangladesh

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Sharing Experience of Community Based Adaptation
to Climate Change through Coastal Afforestation
Practices in Bangladesh

• Paramesh Nandy

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Coastal areas are highly vulnerable to climate
change induced extreme events than any other
parts of Bangladesh
Major livelihoods are agricultural cultivation
and fishing, highly sensitive to climatic shocks
Almost 50 people lack supporting livelihoods
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Project Strategy

• Enhancing resilience of communities and
  protective ecosystems through adaptation
  interventions- (Coastal afforestation and
  Livelihood diversifications)
• Capacity Building- at national, sub-national
  and local level
• Policy Development- reviewing existing
  policies and developing climate resilient
  policies
• Knowledge Management- Capturing and sharing
  climate related knowledge within and outside
  Bangladesh

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Emerging Adaptation Responses

• Vulnerable Communities

• Protective Ecosystems

• Existence of monoculture
• Inadequate number of trees/ha at maturity
• Non-existence of regeneration
• Lack of focus on integration of CC issues
• Lack of sustainability of coastal vegetation

• Lack of community access to govt. barren lands
• Lack of land-use and restoration technique for
  salinity dominated unused barren lands
• Lack of skills on CC risk reduction management
  and improve adaptation practices including saline
  tolerant cropping systems
• Lack of access to public services
• Lack of livelihood security

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Introduction of multicultural species
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Innovative coastal land use for community
adaptation in coastal areas Innovative
coastal land use for community adaptation in
coastal areas
Restoration of barren coastal lands into
community based livelihood practices
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Livelihood diversification through Forest, Fish
and Fruit (FFF) Model
Production stage of seasonal vegetation
Cultivating, fertilizing and nursing dyke
vegetation
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Harvesting of FFF Resources

• Restored barren lands into highly productive
  regime
• Access to land right by distributing 1 ditch and
  1 dyke to each beneficiary household
• Harvested rainwater supports fish cultivation and
  irrigation
• Enhanced household income at least 1000 USD /
  family / year in addition to their routine
  livelihood activities

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• Introducing saline tolerant crops and shifting
  from single to double cropping

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Masura Begum (35 yrs.) of Barguna, lost her
little shelter by devastating Cyclone Sidr- 2007.
We spent 3-4 days without food and survived by
eating green banana only. I got access to
land and started producing different agriculture
vegetables on the dyke, and fish in the ditch of
the land. In the three months, I earned 150 USD
by selling vegetables only after family
consumption. I earned 250 USD from selling fish
and eggs of duck supplied by the project. I
do not need to buy any vegetable and fish for my
family rather I am saving money from selling FFF
resources so that I could pay off my debts.
I had sufferings of food. Now accessing to this
land, I have learned how to feed my family not in
a day, even in the next months with this project
support
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Hasan Gorami (29 yrs.) of Barguna, used to sell
his labor as a fisherman on big boats during the
fishing seasons to support his family, while sits
idle in most of the non-fishing seasons. Now I
maintain this ditch and dyke and this helps me
earn extra money. I grew different vegetables on
the top of the dykes and creepers on the
scaffolding and various types of fish in the
ditch.
I already earned 300 USD from selling fish and
vegetables and expect to double this by the end
of the year.
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Key achievements

• The project enhanced the resilience of coastal
  ecosystem to sustain mangrove vegetation and
  protect adjacent communities to cope with
  different scenarios of CC impacts through
  establishing 6372 ha of coastal afforestation
  that will contribute to absorbing more than
  600,000 tons of carbon annually
• The project improved adaptive capacity of 19,657
  vulnerable coastal households through livelihood
  diversifications
• The project empowered coastal communities through
  access to lands and developed ownership sense to
  participate in local decision making process and
  claim relevant services from govt. departments
• The project showed innovative way for recurrent
  income generation through livelihood
  diversification to secure and sustain livelihoods.

Finally, the project received Earth Care Awards
2012 (sponsored by The JSW-Times of India) for
innovative Triple F model and providing access to
govt. lands for the landless in coastal districts
of Bangladesh under the project support.
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