Environmentally induced disasters have been disrupting livelihood
systems of communities significantly, forcing people to move out of
their villages. This movement has far-reaching ramifications for the
cities where they are going and the villages they are leaving. This
issue has been dealt with at two levels, in an obstructive as well as
constructive ways. Efforts are being made to ensure proper care of
migrants at the place of their arrival which could be considered as
one of the constructive ways. At the same time, if we develop
resilient communities, provide them with adaptation and mitigation
mechanisms and ensure livelihoods at their own places, they would not
be forced to leave. These approaches have been bracketed under
obstructive ways to deal with migration. It is important to note that
both approaches are valuable.
BIG GREEN project, supported by FES India can be termed as
intermediate-term, obstructive way to deal with environmentally
induced migration. We believe that a number of community driven green
livelihood initiatives (GLIs) are available throughout the world which
is ecologically sustainable, socially equitable and economically
viable. But the impact of such GLIs has been limited and they remain
small islands of successes. It is important that GLIs are scaled up so
that their impact gets maximized and people are not forced to leave
their place. It would not only check the influx of people on already
Scaling up green livelihood initiatives-an antidote for climate change induced migration by Sachin Kumar
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