Food and livelihood security through development of Wadis

  • 30/11/2012

  • Development Alternatives

The impact of climate change on food and nutrition security is exacerbating the existing inequalities in access to resources and contributing to injustice. Those who have done the least to cause the climate change problem are already suffering its impacts on one of their most fundamental human rights – the right to food. The marginalised communities and primitive tribes and communities are adversely affected. Their dependence on the natural resources for income and nutrition has crippled their livelihood. Under-nutrition undermines the coping mechanisms and resilience of vulnerable populations, lessening their capacities to resist and adapt to the consequences of climate change. One such community is the designated ‘primitive’ forest-dwelling tribal community of the Sahariyas.