NCCSD India

In new millennium the world is facing the challenge of climate change with increasingly unpredictable weather events and its intense adverse impact on habitat. The cause of climate change is global warming – increased green house gasses. Although global warming in an international phenomena – its adverse impacts are at the local level. The severely affected are the villages – the farm lands and the farmers. The increased floods, cyclones, delayed rains, droughts, heavy rains on one day, un-seasonal hot and cold waves, frost – all these lead to crop – failures – low productivity and mortality. This also causes challenge of food security.

It was in this context that Dr.Kirit Shelat initiated a dialogue by organizing an International Conference on “Global Warming, Agriculture, Sustainable Development and Public Leadership” at Gujarat Vidhyapith – Ahmedabad in March 2010. The outcome of conference was twofold. The Planning Commission of India set up of a special sub group in on “ Enhancing Preparedness for Climate Change” headed by Dr. Kirit Shelat and simultaneously, it was decided to set up a special purpose – NGO with focus on Agriculture and National Council for Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Public Leadership – NCCSD come in to existence at Ahmedabad. Dr. M.S. Swaminathan the veteran agriculture scientist the leader of Green Revolution, Shri Purshottam Rupala, Dr. Y.S. Rajan and Shri Kantisen Shroff gave their blessing and support. The organization was rolled in September 2010 with Dr. Kirit Shelat as Executive Chairman and Justice B. P. Singh as its President.

The mission of NCCSD is to prepare Public governance system, farmers and rural youth to meet challenges of climate change. This is with series of initiatives.

The focus of NCCSD is on Agriculture sector, farmers, rural youth, agriculture university students and faculties, extension team of Government and volunteers of NGO’s. The objective is to promote sustainable livelihood in area of Climate Change - so that farmers continue to increase their income. This is through new modals of training for adaptation and mitigation and climate resilient agriculture And includes weather related information, followed by agro – advisory, contingency plans by farmers and market related information. NCCSD, based on feedback received from farmers and stakeholders, developes policy and programming related suggestions and takes up that with State Government and Central government.

NCCSD conducts leadership building programme which includes entrepreneurship training for students of agriculture universities.

NCCSD participates in ‘Conference of Parties”- meet of countries organized by UNFCCC to meet the challenges of climate change. It was realized that agriculture and farmers do not figure in COP discussion. The role of agriculture as nature’s tool for mitigation- was not recognize. NCCSD organizes every year, side events and exhibitions. NCCSD successfully prioritized agriculture in COP. The Paris Agreement accepted importance of food security, food productivity, technology transfer and capacity building.

FAO also liked idea it created a special purpose organization Called GACSA- ‘Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture’.

NCCSD organizes international Conferences. The first was on ‘Climate Change and its impact on Agriculture and farmers 2012 -New Delhi, Followed on -at Morroco-2012, in 2014-Ahemadabad on Climate Justice,2016-at anand on Food, Water and Energy Nexus.

In 2014 NCCSD is collaborated with Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University ‘FAMU’, USA for building climate smart farmers. USAID helped FAMU to send 30 US- scientists to train our farmers and faculty members of States Agriculture Universities.