APN Funded Projects: CRP2007-01CMY-Dixit: Improving Policy Responses to Interactions between Global Environmental Change and Food Security across the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP)

Floods and droughts are recurrent phenomenon in the Ganga Basin affecting food security and other means of livelihood. There is growing concern among national policy-makers in the IGP that global environmental change (GEC) poses serious effect in the production and equitable provision of food in the region, and undermines efforts aimed at socioeconomic development. This project aims to: identify the vulnerability of case-study food systems in IGP to GEC in the context of socioeconomic issues/changes; enhance capacity within the APN scientific community to raise awareness of the vulnerability of case study food systems in IGP to GEC within the policy making community; and improve policy formulation by district and national institutions to enable and enhance district and national strategies for identifying adaptation strategies to reduce the vulnerability of IGP food systems to GEC. Project outputs hope to answer how GEC will affect water availability, and what will be the consequences of these changes to food systems in the five case study sites across the IGP.