Deconstructing Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPAs): Analysis of Nepal and Pakistan LAPA Initiatives

Chaudhury, Abrar; Sova, Chase; Rasheed, Tahir; Thornton, Thomas F.; Baral, Prajwal; Zeb, Akhtar

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2496968

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“…For example, Pakistan launched the first national climate change policy in 2012. Despite having different levels of policy for climate change adaptation, there is no clear linkage between national-level and local-level adaptation plans in Pakistan (Chaudhury et al 2014).…”

Section: Climate Policies At Different Levels and Institutional Setupmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change and agriculture in South Asia: adaptation options in smallholder production systems

Aryal

Sapkota

Khurana³

et al. 2019

Environ Dev Sustain

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Agriculture in South Asia is vulnerable to climate change. Therefore, adaptation measures are required to sustain agricultural productivity, to reduce vulnerability, and to enhance the resilience of the agricultural system to climate change. There are many adaptation practices in the production systems that have been proposed and tested for minimizing the effects of climate change. Some socioeconomic and political setup contributes to adaptation, while others may inhibit it. This paper presents a systematic review of the impacts of climate change on crop production and also the major options in the agricultural sector that are available for adaptation to climate change. One of the key conclusions is that agricultural practices that help climate change adaptation in agriculture are available, while the institutional setup to implement and disseminate those technical solutions is yet to be strengthened. Thus, it is important to examine how to bring the required institutional change, generate fund to invest on these changes, and design dynamic policies for long-term climate change adaptation in agriculture rather than a mere focus on agricultural technology. This is one of the areas where South Asian climate policies require reconsidering to avoid possible maladaptation in the long run.

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Section: Climate Policies At Different Levels and Institutional Setupmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate change and agriculture in South Asia: adaptation options in smallholder production systems

Aryal

Sapkota

Khurana³

et al. 2019

Environ Dev Sustain

361

156

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“…Pakistan, on the other hand, has implemented LAPA at the state and local levels through the support of NGOs. An analysis of LAPA in Nepal and Pakistan concluded that Nepal's focus on official formalization of the process has come at the cost of delayed implementation, while Pakistan's devolved implementation-centric approach lacks official buy-in to nationally scale up the LAPA (Chaudhury et al 2014). Studies from Nepal and India have reported local cultural and institutional factors that act as barriers to adaptation, particularly for women (Ahmed and Fajber 2009;Jones and Boyd 2011).…”

Section: Public Consultation and Stakeholder Engagement In Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Stronger Action Urgently Needed

Mishra

Appadurai²,

Choudhury

et al. 2019

The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment

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“…While the potential contribution of LAPA to effective adaptation has been acknowledged in the literature (Chaudhury et al 2014), the lack of knowledge about the effectiveness of current approaches to implementing LAPA has hindered its wider application (Nightingale 2015). While Nepal's LAPA is integrally linked to the local climatic context and the wider developmental needs of the community, its success hinges on how they are connected to institutions whose main goal is to help society adapt https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss4/art28/ to changing climate.…”

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Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation

Ghimire¹,

Chhetri²

2022

E&S

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Impacts of climate change, manifested in different forms, are integrally linked with context-specific socio-economic, political, and environmental stressors. Dealing with climatic risks, in most parts, requires understanding these mundane location-specific stressors exacerbated by climate variability and change. In large part, the discussion about dealing with impending threats from climate change has relied on policy objectives hatched at the global and national levels. Despite the fact that these policy objectives are responsible for a wide range of actions at the local levels, they often struggle to incorporate the voices of local communities. With the goal of integrating bottom-up and top-down approaches in climate adaptation and connecting them to local development, the Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal makes a promising case. However, little is known about the institutional barriers and enablers of local adaptation initiatives and how they are affected by the political nature of climate adaptation. Using Nepal's LAPA as a case study and relying on a preliminary field visit, analysis of LAPA documents, and interviews with stakeholders, we reveal several obstacles local communities face that limit their ability to adapt. These obstacles include regular challenges such as insufficient financial resources and the lack of implementation support, to more specific ones such as less recognition of local knowledge and power differences among institutions and between local-level stakeholders having varying interests, power, and views. Our results show gender-based differences on a few key issues. By building on the local knowledge, enhancing local capacity, and by fostering interaction among different actors having unequal power relationships, local efforts such as LAPA can increase the ownership of adaptation policy objectives both at global and local levels. Most importantly, this paper reveals the struggle in linking identified options for dealing with climate change with everyday practices of managing risk and uncertainty.

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Deconstructing Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPAs): Analysis of Nepal and Pakistan LAPA Initiatives

Cited by 8 publications

References 24 publications

Climate change and agriculture in South Asia: adaptation options in smallholder production systems

Climate change and agriculture in South Asia: adaptation options in smallholder production systems

Adaptation to Climate Change in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Stronger Action Urgently Needed

Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation

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