Revitalization of agroforestry practices for mitigating climate change in Kerala by CED India

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Finalist Evaluation

Judges'' comments

Proposal: Revitalization of agroforestry practices for mitigating climate change in Kerala Contest: Reshaping development pathways in LDCs Thank you for your contest entry, Revitalization of agroforestry practices for mitigating climate change in Kerala. We appreciate your willingness to share your ideas, and also the time and effort you put into developing a proposal and submitting it to the
. As your entry did not sufficiently address some of the revisions the Judges were hoping to see, we did not advance it to the next round of competition. We encourage you to keep developing your idea. Transfer your proposal to a Workspace to re-open it, make edits, add collaborators, and even submit it into a future contest. You can do so by logging into your account, opening your proposal, selecting the Admin tab, and clicking “Move proposal.” We welcome you to stay involved in the Climate CoLab community: support and comment on proposals that have been named Finalists, and vote during the public voting period to help select the contest’s Popular Choice Winner. Climate CoLab will be opening more contests throughout the year and you are welcome to submit your proposal to those contests as well. Keep up the great work. We hope that by working together, we all can create solutions that wouldn’t otherwise be possible. Sincerely, Contest Fellows If there are additional comments from the Judges & Fellows, they will be included below.

Semi-Finalist Evaluation

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Judges'' comments

The proposal is well and convincingly built around three pillars (awareness about carbon cycles, integrated agroforestry practices and restoration, capacity building of the communities) and aims at disseminate agroforestry to 50 to 60 groups of small producers in Kerala. The implementation will be participatory (although there is not much explanation on the way it is going to engage with population). However, the feasibility of the project is very difficult to judge because it does not address some major questions: why the villagers of this zone would be interested in engaging in such project? What would be their interest in restoring landscape by agroforestry? A plausible theory of change has to be developed because planting tree does not depend only on the availability of saplings of tree, it is much more complex, and the return for the zone is a very long term return.

To further improve the proposal, the proponent will need to provide further elements on the scale of the proposal (how many farmers, land will be targeted by the practices, etc) and how can the project be scaled up to reach out to more communities and at state and country levels.

More details on the political and social challenges and opportunities for implementation would be helpful as well as more details on communicating the incentives of the approach and how the project would be sustained into the future and trees protected after planting.

This proposal strongly incorporates local community in the project implementation. There is need for additional background information regarding the present context. What kind of farming do they practice now? What crops are currently grown? What crops will the intervention include and what benefits do these have for farmers (Compared to business as usual)? It would be good to see a breakdown of the budget in the next phase.

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