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Best Practices

‘Best practices’ are understood to be viable models that conserve and regenerate environmental resources in the wake of climate change. Since climate change impacts poor people who depend on climate-sensitive resources for their livelihoods, best practices must secure these resources so that people’s livelihoods are in turn ensured. Additionally, livelihoods of both women and men must be secured with both women and men having the wherewithal to adapt to the changing nature of environmental resources.

This study found that several of the viable models or ‘best practices’ in different agro-climatic zones are very similar. The attempt here has been to show these similarities by showing how these best practices are followed in two different States from among the four selected States for this study.

These best practices have been briefly described below and then analysed from two perspectives:

1. The gender perspective, which assesses these practices around four axis – food security, labour input, time investment and income accrual
2. The policy perspective, which assesses what the government can do to benefit women through changes in its existing policies and/or programmes.

The best practices have been collected from primary and secondary data sources. Several of these are initiatives of AF’s partner organizations in this project. Others are initiatives taken by State governments through National or State-level programmes.