Climate Smart Village A Case of Climate Resilient Livelihood Model in Flood Aff ected Ecosystem of West Bengal
Climate Smart Village A Case of Climate Resilient Livelihood Model in Flood Aff ected Ecosystem of West Bengal
Authors : Sujit Sarkar, R.N.Padaria, Sanjib Das, Biplab Das, Ganesh Biswas, Dinabondhu Roy and Ajit Sarkar
Climate change has undoubtedly emerged as the gravest challenge across the globe,
and the search for appropriate adaptation mechanisms has become an arduous task for
policymakers. In India, the rural people of fl ood-affected ecosystems are considered to
be the major victims of climate change because of their high dependence on climatesensitive farming sectors. In the Sub-Himalayan foothills region of eastern India, fl oods are
considered as the most powerful annually occurring natural disaster, which causes severe
losses to the socio-economic life of the inhabitants (Mitra and Das, 2022). The downstream
fl oodplains of Teesta in North Bengal suffer from too much water in monsoon, and huge
losses are experienced in agricultural production each year. This crisis has escalated in the
recent past due to climate change.
The local people in the region reported that there was a change in temperature and
rainfall that had severely affected their local water sources, cropping calendars, patterns
of cultivation, and ultimately their livelihood security. There was hardly any institutional
support for adaptation to these changes.
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