Mountain Voice TV: Ms. Geeta Gairola of Mahila Samakhaya, India talks about. A community in the mountains that is dependent on forest will be quite stressed due to climatic changes, as their livelihood and life support system revolve around mountains, forests and rivers. The changes will increases their vulnerability and directly affects the lives of

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Mountain Voice TV:  Dr. Anil Joshi of HESCO, India talks about. Majority of the land in the mountains is under forest cover, therefore the present economic model doesn’t apply to the mountains. Due to present economic model mountain people have major suffering to compete with urban dwellers in terms infrastructure and lesser income. It’s also

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Mountain Voice TV: Dr. Amba Jamir of The Missing Link, India talks about. There is a disconnect between science and policy making with fact that the policy whichever exist many of them are not informed. Like Shifting cultivation is an issues in North Eastern mountain states of India, which has never ever been supported by

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Mountain Voice TV: Mr. Cyril R. Raphel of SBMA, Uttarakhand India talks about. It’s evident that despite the higher rates of literacy and better indices of primary, secondary and higher education, the economic growth in the mountains are not matching.There is a disconnect between the quality of education and measures we adopt in judging the

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Mountain Voice TV: Mr. Pankaj Kumar Srivastava of Oxfam South Asia Regional centre talks about. To design climate adaptation related interventions one needs to first understand various kinds of natural flows in terms of hydrological, energy, bio-mass, among others in the mountain agriculture. The interventions should go in integrated manner, while mountain people should develop

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Mountain Voice-TV: Dr. Malvika Chauhan of Himmothan Society in India talks about. How resilient the mountain women are towards climatic changes in the Himalayan region and the kind of adaptation focus should be their in this region of South Asia. Though women in this region are facing such changes for years, but there are areas

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