One of the major rural problem lies with poverty. Education, Training and Awareness are the most crucial tools to capacitance and develop skills, create employment, produce food and provide cleaner and greener future to eradicate poverty and create employment. In other words, it is important for creating sustainable future based on employment, poverty elimination, social inclusion and respect for environment and ensures ethical values.

C S D R imparts education, training and awareness programs on

• Forest survey and biodiversity assessment (survey techniques, identification, measurements, documentation, etc.)

• Environmental quality assessment (Air, water and soil quality assessment)

• Natural resource management (Crop modelling, soil and water conservation, organic farming, nutrition garden, agro-forestry, etc.)

• Baseline survey, micro-planning, environment impact assessment (survey tools and techniques, data collection and assessment, report preparation)

• Awareness programme on environmental issues

Natural resources are gift of nature which is denuded with increased anthropogenic activities and demand for the resources by humankind. It’s the time to restore our natural resources through proper management strategies so that our future generation can have enough for their sustenance. Natural resource management is only possible with active participation of the local community members through alternative sources of livelihood in justice with the local climate and environment so that nature conservation of an area is ensured. If such initiatives are taken with local peoples’ participation then cumulative result would give rise to large scale ecosystem based conservation of natural resources. Such programmes and interventions would also address number of Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) through an integrated approach of livelihood intensification.

C S D R offers

• Capacity building of community members on climate resilient agriculture and livelihood generation

• Promotion and implementation of sustainable agricultural practices

• Establishment of crop modelling for scientific background on different crops growth, production and economy with respect to meteorological parameters

• Promotion and implementation of soil and water conservation measures, farm development, agro-forestry model, biodiversity conservation, etc.

Ecocentrism being a holistic approach to value the entire biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem, the term ecology and wildlife conservation is widely known for the branch of ecology that deals with the conservation, preservation and management of natural resources. The ecosystem or the nature provides ample benefits and services to mankind. Therefore, with increased population pressure and demand for resources most of the entire ecosystem is under threat. Major causes for threats are habitat fragmentation, overexploitation, land degradation, pollution, climate change etc. IUCN has estimated about 27,000 species are at risk for extinction. To address these issues CSDR works for nature conservation with an ecosystem based approach to restore wildlife habitat, land degradation, biodiversity loss, food shortage and augment the biological resources upon which local communities are dependent.

C S D R focuses on

• Skill development and capacity building in the areas of wildlife protection, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management

• Biodiversity assessment and conservation plan preparation

• Ecosystem services and human well being enhancement

• Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)

• Soil and Water conservation and climate resilient agricultural practices in extreme drought prone areas in India

• Waste recycling and management

The well known term global warming is known for its set of changes in Earth’s climate or long term weather patterns that change from place to place and time to time. Climate change does not only refer to increase in average global temperature but are associated with extreme events of weather, shift of wild population, change in habitat, biodiversity loss, food insecurity and many other impacts. All these have been accelerated by human due to its greed. Majority of the world’s poor live in rural areas and in India being a rural country and agriculture based, the income source of majority of the rural areas come from agriculture and due to climate change factors both production and income has became unpredictable and insecure. Thus, increase of productivity and income is the key to achieve the food security goal and alleviate poverty. Hence resilience is of major concern.

Climate-Smart agriculture is an approach to transform and reorient the agricultural processes that would effectively support development and ensure food security under changing climatic scenario. The objective of CSA is threefold: to increase agricultural productivity and incomes sustainably; adaptation and resilience to climate change and reduce green house gas emissions where possible.

C S D R helps in combating climate change issues through several interventions and actions that includes

• Enhancement of agriculture, forestry and fisheries production towards sustainability

• Crop modelling and decision support system, agromet advisory services

• Management of farms, crops, livestock, fisheries to attain food and livelihood security

• Conservation of ecosystem and landscape management for agricultural development, adaptation and food security

• Enhance the benefits of CSA through change in food-system including demand-side measures and value chain addition