India: Coping with flood situations The Indian organization
Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG) has documented
practices around agricultural adaptation in flood prone areas.
The documentation has helped the local farmers to a great
extent. It is in high demand, and not only in India. GEAG has
gained rich experience in natural resource management, organic
agriculture and sustainable livelihoods. It represents the
interests of small, marginalized and women farmers. GEAG works
in flood prone areas of eastern Uttar Pradesh and has recently
expanded its program to drought prone Bundelkhand as well. The
GEAG observed that the synergy of people's traditional knowledge
and the technical know-how based on scientific research has
helped small farmers in adapting and mitigating the adverse
impact of climate change. Considering the effectiveness of such
practices adopted by farmers and the lack of appropriate
extension mechanisms and opportunities of farmer-to-farmer
communication, GEAG proposed to document such