Sangram B. Chavan (India)
ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management Malegaon, Baramati 413 115, Pune Maharashtra, India
School of Soil Stress Management
Sangram Chavan was born at Karad (Satara) in the state of Maharashtra on 7th December 1987. He obtained a Ph.D. (Forestry) degree from CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar (Haryana) in 2019, M.Sc. (Forestry) from FCRI, TNAU, Coimbatore (TN) in 2011, and BSc (Forestry) from College of Forestry, Dr. BSKKV, Dapoli in 2009. He was also selected as Agricultural Research Service of Indian Council of Agricultural Research, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India during 2013 at the age of 25 years. He has served as a Scientist (Forestry) at ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute, Jhansi (UP), and recently transferred to ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Baramati. For the last 9 years, he is working on various aspects of agroforestry research and developments mainly concentrated on biomass and carbon modelling, livelihood security, production of quality planting material, and climate change. His major research contribution was to quantify India’s agroforestry area and carbon sequestration potentials on the country level. He has published more than 25 research articles in international & national pee-reviewed journals (current science, springer, Elsevier) 10 book chapters, and more than 10 popular and technical bulletins on the agroforestry arena. He also authored two famous books; one is “Competitive Forestry” for ARS, NET, CET, state services, and UGC exams for students and the second is “Promising Agroforestry Tree Species in India” published by ICAR, New Delhi & ICRAF, Kenya for detailed package & practices of industrial important agroforestry species. He also guided two Msc students of Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (UP). During his short research span of 8 years, he worked as PI & CoPI in projects on climate change, biomass modelling, biofuels, tree improvements, and impact assessments of Soil & water conservation activities, etc. He has developed an android based application “FarmTree” for agroforestry practitioners, students, policymakers, and various stakeholders. He has co-organized one of meg-event 3 rd World Congress on Agroforestry” at New Delhi. He is an editorial member for the Journal of Tree Sciences published by the Indian Society of Tree Sciences and acting as a reviewer in many springers, Tylor & Francis, Elsevier, and Current Science. Currently, he is working on sandalwood based agroforestry for higher-income generations in degraded lands.

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ACHIEVING NDC TARGETS BY 2030 THROUGH AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS IN INDIA

Session Name
0320 - Pecha Kuchas - Biodiversity 01: Education, communication, awareness & Cocreation (ID 60)
Session Type
Pecha Kuchas
Date
02/23/2022
Session Time
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Room

Hall A

Presenter
Lecture Time
02:15 PM - 02:20 PM

Abstract

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The Paris Agreement of 21st session of Conference of Parties of UNFCCC adopted with the aim to maintain the global average temperature below 2 °C of pre-industrial levels made a huge noise in the international arena. Whereas, India had promised to reduce its emissions intensity—greenhouse gas emissions per unit of GDP— by 33 to 35 percent below 2005 levels by the year 2030. In addition, we would create a carbon sink equivalent to 2.5 to 3 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide i.e. nationally determined contributions (NDC) by the year 2030 through increasing tree cover area by means of agroforestry is widely considered as low-hanging fruit. However, mapping of existing agroforestry area and its carbon sequestration presisely & accurately will help achieve targets. The study was carried out into two major aspects: estimation of agroforestry area using satellite remote sensing data, and to estimate the carbon sequestration potential of existing agroforestry by using dynamic CO2FIXv3.1 model for a simulation period of 30-years from 57 districts of 17 states (20% sampling). The average estimated carbon sequestration potential of the AFS, representing varying edaphic climatic conditions, on farmer’s field at country level is 0.35 Mg ha-1 yr-1 with average tree density of 18 tree ha-1. The study revealed that total carbon stock under baseline in different states of the country varied from 14.5 to 33.48 Mg C ha-1. Total tree population in agroforestry at country level is 321.45 million in 17.45 million ha area under agroforestry. At national level, existing agroforestry systems are estimated to mitigate 22.41 million tons CO2 equivalent annually on an area of 17.45 m ha, which may offsets 1.22 % of the total GHG emissions India (1831.64 million tonnes). These huge potential of carbon sequestration through agroforestry provide ‘win-win’ opportunity to bridge-up the adaptation and mitigation strategies and achieve the substancial targets of paris agreements. In addition to this, the adoption of various forms of agroforestry by farmers helping out accelerates their livelihood security.

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