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Seaweed Farming as a Climate Resilient Strategy for Indian Coastal Waters

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Title Seaweed Farming as a Climate Resilient Strategy
for Indian Coastal Waters
 
Creator Zacharia, P U
Kaladharan, P
Rojith, G
 
Subject Climate change
Seaweed
 
Description In the context of climate change and its impacts on global
as well as regional levels, it is of necessity to develop effective climate resilient strategies. This paper focuses on the scope of
seaweed farming along Indian coastal waters as a climate resilient
strategy. Biofuels from various biomass feedstocks serves as an
alternative energy production route leading to reduced dependency
on fossil fuels and is widely accepted strategy to combat global
warming. The prospects of seaweed as a feedstock for biofuel
production are reviewed through this paper. Carbon sequestration
ability of seaweed makes its farming an option to combat ocean
acidification and we envisage further bulk conversion of the substrate
into stable bio char which offers additional long term soil C
sequestration means. Improved water as well as nutrient holding
capacity of biochar makes it feasible to apply in agricultural lands
that are affected with low precipitation induced by climate change.
Scope of seaweed bio char for agricultural resilience is further
explored in this study. Climate change had negatively affected the
rural livelihoods of fishermen community in several coastal villages.
Seaweed farming, its harvest and processing requires manpower and
hence poses as an opportunity to enhance the rural livelihoods,
which is also discussed through this paper. The suitability of Indian
coastal water s f or seaweed farming is also reviewed. The present
study thus calls the attention towards developing seaweed farming as
a climate resilient strategy which has multiple benefits of usage as
alternative energy feedstock, as an option to combat ocean
acidification, as a mitigation method for agricultural adversities and
also as a means to improve coastal livelihoods.
 
Date 2015
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10491/1/Zacharia__2015_Seaweed_Farming_as_Climate_Resilient_Strategy_Inter._Conf._Integrating_Climate_Crop_Ecology.pdf
Zacharia, P U and Kaladharan, P and Rojith, G (2015) Seaweed Farming as a Climate Resilient Strategy for Indian Coastal Waters. In: The International Conference on Integrating Climate, Crop, Ecology–The Emerging Areas of Agriculture, Horticulture, Livestock, Fishery, Forestry, Biodiversity and Policy Issues, 18 - 19 July 2015, New Delhi.