{"id":389,"date":"2024-02-21T11:08:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T11:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalclimatefutures.org.uk\/?page_id=389"},"modified":"2024-03-21T13:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T13:12:46","slug":"case-study-bihar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalclimatefutures.org.uk\/index.php\/case-study-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study – Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Picture by Vidya Pancholi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The flood-prone and exceptionally fertile plains of the northern Indian state of Bihar constitute the perfect setting to experiment with digital climate adaptation. Since the promotion of \u201cclimate-smart villages\u201d, a concept pioneered in 2011 by CGIAR and compounded by the Modi\u2019s government launch of \u201cDigital India\u201d in 2015, Bihar can be considered as a laboratory for climate services and digital adaptation. Ranging from farm activities (\u201cfarming as a service\u201d, Malik 2023) to important poverty reduction schemes like the MNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act), the synergy between adaptation and the digital has become pervasive.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In our exploratory fieldwork, Dr Vidya Pancholi carried out a comprehensive mapping of the organisations and entities that are currently active in digitalisation in both farm and non-farm sectors in the capital city of Patna, and in four administrative blocks  Gurua (Gaya), Mohanpur (Gaya), Pusa (Samastipur), and Mahant-Maniyari (Muzaffarpur). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our aim is to investigate how users and communities engage with, co-design, employ, and resist such applications and understand how digital adaptation contributes to reshaping knowledge and power relations in a society where land ownership, access to employment, resources and technologies are deeply fraught along the lines of caste, gender, and ethnicity. <\/p>\n\n\n

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An abandoned car in Guruva Block, Gaya Block, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A female farmer showing her nursery of plants to the researcher in Guruva Block, Gaya District, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A picture of Wheatgrass from the fields of women farmers of Guruva Block, Gaya District, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A view of mustard fields in Guruva block, Gaya District, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A group of female farmers showing their fields in Guruva Block, Gaya District, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Walking across the fields in Guruva Block in Gaya District, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A group of female farmers in Guruva Block, Gaya District accessing agro advisories on their smartphone <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A view of farms in Mohanpur Block, Gaya District, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A tuck-tuck resting in Mohanpur block, Gaya District, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A shop en-route Guruva block, Gaya district, Bihar <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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IT Centre in Guruva block, Gaya district<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Jeevika’s block office, Guruva block, Gaya District, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A view of buildings in Guruva block, Gaya district, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A view of tractor trolley with aggregates en route to Mohanpur Block, Gaya, Bihar <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A view of farms en-route Mohanpur block, Gaya, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A stock of hay near a farmer’s house in Mohanpur block, Gaya, Bihar <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Jeevika’s office in Guruva block, Gaya, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A bunch of kids enjoying their free time in fields, en-route Guruva block, Gaya<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Entering Guruva block in a tuk-tuk, Guruva block, Gaya, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A view of farms en-route Mohanpur block, Gaya, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A view of farms from the taxi en-route Mohanpur block, Gaya, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A view of farmer’s houses in Guruva block, Gaya, Bihar <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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Walking along with Jeevika resource persons in Guruva block, Gaya, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>
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A farmer’s cattle in Guruva block, Gaya, Bihar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure><\/div>\n
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The flood-prone and exceptionally fertile plains of the northern Indian state of Bihar constitute the perfect setting to experiment with digital climate adaptation. Since the promotion of \u201cclimate-smart villages\u201d, a concept pioneered in 2011 by CGIAR and compounded by the Modi\u2019s government launch of \u201cDigital India\u201d in 2015, Bihar can be considered as a laboratory … <\/p>\n

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