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Fostering Community Preparedness to Cope with Drought: new initiatives and results from a study involving ODL and ICT from South Central India

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Title Fostering Community Preparedness to Cope with Drought: new initiatives and results from a study involving ODL and ICT from South Central India
 
Creator Neelam, L K
Vangala, R N K
Ganapuram, S
Sylvester, A G
Venkataraman, B
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Drought has emerged as a key concern in the context of climate variability induced by Climate
Change processes and over a billion people are vulnerable, according to UN estimates. Drought
preparedness is recognized as the preferred way to cope over relief, and information is the key.
Improved access to contemporary ICT in the form of mobile phones and the Internet can help
address the challenge of information deficiency in this matter. We have tried to develop an
integrated approach for improving the capacity of rural communities by bringing together
agricultural information with methods of ODL and effective exchange or delivery using video-
conferencing. This has also enabled skill building among vulnerable rural communities in the use
of color-coded maps derived from satellite imagery and GIS platforms. ICRISAT in partnership
with a community based all- women micro-credit organization, the Adarsha Mahila Samaikhya
(AMS), in South Central India has developed this blend of techniques to help the AMS and rural
communities to anticipate how vulnerable their villages would be to drought in a season. This is
an ongoing partnership, and we report here on joint studies carried out during March 2008-
September 2009.
 
Date 2011
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4662/1/SJ_Lavanya.pdf
Neelam, L K and Vangala, R N K and Ganapuram, S and Sylvester, A G and Venkataraman, B (2011) Fostering Community Preparedness to Cope with Drought: new initiatives and results from a study involving ODL and ICT from South Central India. In: 6th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning , 24th- 28th Nov. 2011, Le Meridien, Kochi, India.