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International Conference on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for Food and Environmental Security 2012 Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) www.atree.org Recognized as a Center for Excellence in Conservation

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Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE)

www.atree.org

  • MISSION - “Promote socially just conservation and

sustainable development”

  • Recognized as a Center for Excellence in Conservation

Sciences

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Western Ghats Himalayas Indo- Burma Sundaland

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Eastern Himalayas

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Response of agro-pastoral indigenous communities to the cascading effects of climate change-studies from Sikkim, Eastern Himalayas, India

Tenzing Ingty ATREE

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Climate Change and the Himalayas

  • Increased by 1.5° C and annual precipitation by 163mm

between 1982 and 2006

INTRODUCTION

  • Lack of baseline data

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Climate change and Indigenous peoples

  • Indigenous people canary

in the coal mine.

  • SCALE

Climate change and human responses

  • TEK can be used as long term baseline datasets

developed over years of trial and error

INTRODUCTION

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STUDY SITE

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STUDY SITE

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D O K P A

3800 m amsl to about 7000 m amsl

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L A C H E N P A

2000m amsl to about 3800m amsl

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Migratory route of Lachenpas Summer Migration Winter migration Migratory route of Dokpas Summer Migration Winter migration

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Arisaema griffithii Rhododendron anthopogon Mecanopsis horridula Aromatic Edible Medicinal

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Dokpa selling yak butter

Dependency on livestock products

Making hard cheese for sale Making yak fur carpets and man preparing the yak tail for sale

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The Dzumsa

  • Annually elected body
  • 12 village representatives

⁻ 2 Pipons (headmen) ⁻ 6 Gembos (advisors) ⁻ 2 Tsipos (accountants) ⁻ 2 Gyapons (messengers)

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Dzumsa

Dates for migration Allows pasture re-growth over a season Sowing and harvesting dates ; selection of crops Provides equal

  • pportunity for

putting up their winter reserves Dates for fodder collection 1.Based on TEK potentially higher yield and productivity

  • 2. Co-ordinates

community’s effort to protect crops from freely roaming livestock

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Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)

  • Focus Group Discussions -[n]=6
  • Participatory and non participatory observations
  • Semi structured questionnaires [n]=44
  • Lachenpas-35(around 15%) of 227
  • Dokpas- 9 (60%) of 15

METHODS

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METHODS

Semi structured questionnaires:

  • 1. Observations
  • 2. Perception
  • 3. Implication
  • 4. Impacts on their

lives and livelihoods

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  • Certain

precaution is necessary in conducting perception studies.

  • Sampling errors
  • Non-sampling errors and biases
  • To minimize biases

₋ The sample was drawn randomly ₋ The questions were framed in a way that it would not lead respondents to certain presumption or biases. ₋ Perceptions collected through household surveys were verified through focus group discussions and key informant surveys.

METHODS

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  • Overall warmth
  • Less snow
  • Water sources drying out
  • Shift in seasons

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

20 40 60 80 100 120

Lachenpa Dokpa

Early summer

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Late monsoon

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Lachenpa Dokpa

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

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20 40 60 80 100 120

Lachenpa Dokpa

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

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Lachenpa Dokpa

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

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Rhododendron arboreum

  • Before flowered in Late April-May
  • Nowadays flowers in March

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Lachenpa Dokpa

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

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Thinner ice

“Thinner ice makes crossing frozen streams more dangerous nowadays”

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Reasons for observed changes

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Lachenpa

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Dokpa

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Reasons for observed changes

10 20 30 40 50 60

Lachenpa

20 40 60 80 100 120

Dokpa

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Impacts on grazing pastures

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  • 1. Slaughter or sale
  • f sheep banned for

three years.

  • 2. Prayer flags believed

to decrease snowfall have been banned. Impacts on grazing pastures and the response

Dzumsa

Lachen-9000ft (amsl) Maize, cabbages, pumpkins Thangu (12,500 ft amsl) Carrots Gochung-(14500 ft amsl) potatoes Impacts on agriculture and the response

Dzumsa

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Impacts on religious sentiments

“The Mountain’s have been reduced to old balding men, with just a few white hairs (snow cover) left at the top. We worshipped the mighty snow clad mountains, alas our God,

  • ur culture is threatened”

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CONCLUSION

  • The results of our study confirm certain climate

change indicators

  • Results conform to numerous scientific findings from

around the world, further suggesting the method’s and results’ scientific credibility

  • Traditional knowledge-

important sources of information

  • HOLISTIC APPROACH-

Integration and feedback loops.

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Flora of British India by Sir J.D. Hooker 1850- 1872 A.D.

Himalayan Journals Notes

  • f Naturalist by

Sir J.D. Hooker- 1850 A.D

Traditional Ecological Knowledge

CONCLUSION

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2500-3500m amsl 3500- 4500 m amsl 4500- 5500 m amsl

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Rheum nobile Previous maximum range size: 4500m Located at 4784 m Primula primulina Previous maximum range size 4500m Located at 4824 m Gentiana ornata Previous maximum range size: 4500m Located at 5212m Bistorts macrophylla Previous maximum range size: 4500m Located at 4724m

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  • Traditional peoples have much to offer the discourse
  • n and actions countering climate change.
  • Empowered to exercise self-determination to deal

with climate change that threatens their traditional livelihoods, indeed their very existence.

  • Local perceptions, adaptations,

responses and solutions must be kept in mind while being inclusive

  • f the

traditional institutions like the Dzumsa to effectively develop and implement adaptation and mitigation strategies.

CONCLUSION

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  • People of Lachen Valley and the

Dzumsa

  • The Sikkim Forest Department
  • START- CDKN
  • ATREE Small Grants Program

sponsored by ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT and JOHN D. AND CATHERINE T. MACARTHUR FOUNDATION

  • ATREE NORAGRIC Small Grants

Program

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Thank you

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OTC

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