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Low Resource Use and High Yield Concept in Climate-Smart Community Empowerment

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Assuring food, energy and water security is a great challenge for government and development agencies. In addition to many critical lands that were left barren, different cases have shown that land clearance to satisfy food production and increase income has often used quick and cheap methods. These human-driven activities have become terrifying images of climate change. Various analyses have indicated that socio-economic circumstances are generally more important considerations in designing effective conservation methods for households faced with the primary need to survive and satisfy basic needs. These reinforced that sustainable development must focus on the power of local people to manage the environment on which they depend. Using the Bangkalan Madura region of East Java and peat swamp areas of four provinces in Indonesia as examples, this chapter discusses the drivers behind the successful implementation of a community empowerment model in responding to climate change and at the same time developing livelihood strategies for food, energy and water security as well as improving economic welfare by enhancing resource use efficiency. The presence of high social capital of Bangkalan community and readily available free agricultural inputs in the peatland provinces were also significant factors. This chapter concludes that the low resource use and high yield concept in empowerment programme is the key success to an effective climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as enhancing community livelihood. This chapter also highlights the need of policy shift, the sustainability and scalability of the programme.

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  1. Department of Forest Resources Conservation & Ecotourism, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, Kampus IPB Darmaga, P.O. Box 168, Bogor, 16001, Indonesia

    Arzyana Sunkar & Yanto Santosa

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Sunkar, A., Santosa, Y. (2018). Low Resource Use and High Yield Concept in Climate-Smart Community Empowerment. In: McLellan, B. (eds) Sustainable Future for Human Security. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5433-4_22

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