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Friday, Jul 15, 2005
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Climate & Weather MSSRF team to implement project on climate change Our Bureau
Hyderabad , July 14 A CONSORTIUM led by the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, will implement a four-year project on `Vulnerability Assessment and Enhancing the Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Semi-Arid India' . Funded by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation, the project would focus on optimising and integrating climate change related knowledge in water, agriculture and rural energy sector in Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan. The National Institute of Agriculture Extension Management and Action for Food Production , both based in Hyderabad, are the national partners in the project. An international consortium consisting of two Swiss agencies — Intercooperation, Berne and INFRAS, Zurich will also provide inputs in the cooperative initiative, according to an MSSRF press release. The objective of the programme is to secure the livelihoods of rural poor and vulnerable communities by promoting adaptation measures and make them better prepared to the impact of climate change and disasters. According to the best available scientific data, adverse changes in temperature and precipitation are likely to occur as a result of climate change caused by global warming. The programme would identify sites in both Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan for implementation. At the end of fourth year, it is expected that the programme would demonstrate and implement adaptation measures and coping mechanisms at the community level.
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