Dear all.

I enclose the news published in the English daily 'The Pioneer'(Bhubneshwar edition)for your perusal

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SudhirMishra/Pioneer/Balangir

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Poverty as fallout of climate change

SUNDAY, 04 MARCH 2012 21:55

PNS | BALANGIR

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Climate change is a global issue and needs concerted efforts at all level to create sustainable impact. Although people are facing the repercussions of climate change, most often, they are not able to link it as a direct impact of climate change, said participants in a workshop organised by RCDC and Concern World Wide at Bhubneshwar on March 1, after visiting two villages of Rangani and Talchua gram panchayat in  Rajnagar block of Kendrapara.

Decrease in agricultural productivity and fish has disturbed the primary source of food of the people living in the coastal districts. Migration in many areas has developed as a coping mechanism of the community to solve their immediate issue of food security. Women and vulnerable groups are the worst suffers of climate change impacts. There is a direct relationship between extreme poverty, distress migration and the environment.

There is a need to identify and promote traditional knowledge and practices of people to address climate change impacts and disasters, they suggested.

There is a need for a strategy on climate change adaptation and disasters by the civil society organisations through a collaborative effort of the Government departments and other spheres. Research need to be undertaken by educational institutions to authenticate facts on climate change, the participants opined.

Besides this, there is need for a South Asian forum by involving universities and research organisations which would authenticate the facts of climate change with substantial data, besides generating awareness among schoolchildren, they said. Among others, Saroj Dash from Concern World Wide (India), Dr Ambika Nanda of UNDP, Suresh Bisoyi and Kailash Dash of RCDC, Bhubneshwar, GB Mukherjee, Meena and Sushilan from Concern Worldwide, Bangladesh, shared their views and addressed the gathering.

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