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Crosslinks Foundation is bringing Climate Smart Agriculture techniques to India, focusing on soil carbon sequestration and incentivizing farmers for regenerative practices, aiming for sustainable climate actions to fight against climate change.
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The world is on the verge of an unprecedented climate crisis. Over the last couple of years, we are witnessing a surge in extreme weather events such as storms, cyclones, floods, heat waves and wildfires that threaten our very existence. As per a recent CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water) report, the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events in India too have increased by almost 200% since 2005 and more than 80 percent of India’s population lives in districts highly vulnerable to extreme hydro-met disasters. Besides cutting-down on future Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, mankind has to explore means to remove large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere and store in forests, oceans and land to reduce global warming. Globally, farmers are at the forefront of this climate action. As per a recent report published by UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), world’s food systems account for more than one-fourth of global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. In particular, soil carbon sequestration on agricultural lands offers significant mitigation potential for CO2.

PESO: Crosslinks Foundation is the field implementation partner for a pilot project that seeks to incentivize smallholder paddy farmers in rural Odisha to adopt regenerative agricultural practices such as incorporation of crop residues in the soil instead of resorting to stubble burning. The project, being undertaken in collaboration with J-PAL South Asia and University of California (Berkeley), pays farmers as a function of measured improvements in soil organic content while accounting for liquidity needs. The project will lay the groundwork for developing a larger-scale randomized evaluation that links small rural farmers to firms providing carbon credits.

Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA): Crosslinks Foundation, in collaboration with its multi-disciplinary partners, has designed a suite of CSA techniques for tropical soils that will increase soil carbon sequestration while also leading to long-term benefits for the Indian farmer in terms of improved soil health, increased crop yields, lower input costs and higher income. The CSA program involves a package of practices such as double cropping, crop residue management, reduction of chemical fertilizers, application of organic inputs, use of green fertilizers and agro-forestry. Crosslinks and its partners will also initiate carbon certification process for this project in order to sustain, maintain and scale-up CSA interventions by channelizing carbon finance to the small and marginal farmers participating in the project.

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4053 Sobha Daffodil
Somasundarapalaya, HSR Layout
Bangalore, India 560102
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+91-9746851233 (India)
+1-(540)282-8076 (USA)
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crosslinksfoundation@gmail.com