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Principle
• Adhere to the concept of public support for
accelerating change and promote partnerships
between public, private and civil society. It also
enhances strong community participation along
with the use of the polluter principle.
• The action plan is divided into three phases:
short-term, medium-term and long-term, and
preparation for monitoring and evaluation
• Including a revised master plan every 10
years to improve the overall effectiveness of
the Master Plan and its implementation.
Vision
• Thailand has a plan and approaches to
prepare for and adapt to climate change and
the plan and guidelines can be used
appropriately.
• To enhance competitiveness and development
towards sufficiency economy and low carbon
society.
Selected mission
• Ensure all stakeholders are well prepared and
skilled in managing the impacts of climate
change.
• Encourage all stakeholders to participate in
reducing greenhouse gas emissions based on
sustainable development and mutual benefits in
the context of Thai society, the philosophy of
sufficiency economy and the way of life of Thais.
• Develop knowledge and mechanisms to stimulate
an integrated plan to address climate change
issues at all levels.
Sectoral strategies to climate change
• Specific medium-term sectoral climate change
strategies have been formulated e.g. agriculture,
health, energy, etc.
• Specifically, Agriculture is a highly sensitive
sector of climate change, especially for small
farmers and coastal fishers. The production
process is linked to the natural environment.
• When climate is variable, farmers can not set
the crop as in the past.
• Higher temperature changes also affect the
survival and propagation of insects.
• As a result, there is an outbreak of diseases
and insects, which cause a lot of damage to
agricultural products.
• Therefore, Agriculture needs to be prepared
for sustainable and tangible climate change,
based on the resources and the appropriate
conditions of each area.
• The climate change strategies for
agriculture sector covers plans on plants,
soil, water, livestock and fishery, and
climate change on agriculture.
1.2 Problems
• Existent of long-term strategies for
climate change is timely needed but it is
very much top-down initiative.
• Whereas, local Communities and farmers
are directly affected by climate change,
but still lack of knowledge on how to
quickly adapt to climate change.
1.3 Challenges
• It is challenging on how to translate
the national master plan and strategies
on climate change into real local action
in a timely manner.
• It is also interesting to learn how local
communities/farmers respond and
adapt to climate change using their
effective wisdoms for enhancing
sustainable livelihoods.
2. Three selected case studies of local small
farmers’ wisdoms for adaptation to climate
change in Thailand
Case Study 1: Klong Jinda Fruits and Vegetables Group
in Sampran district of Nakhon Phathom province
• The group has a learning process in adaptation to
global warming using folk wisdom by lifting the
groove (ร่อง) to grow vegetables and fruits.
• In the past, there was a roundabout dike. Let the
water flow into the farms in the rainy reason.
• Then, pump out because letting flooded once a year is
good due to the water will blow the diseases and
insects out of the farms.
• Nowadays, better-off farmers create higher dike than
poorer planters. As a result, the runoff water will be
flooded at the lower farms.
Map of Nakhon Pathom province
• However, the effective barrier is to plant on
the lifted soil so that the roots can fix on the
soil.
• Klong Jinda Community has more than 50
plant species, with the selection of plant
species and methods of planting that are
expected to cope with climate change.
• And promote growing of plants that are
symbiosis, such as on the groove to grow
grass, nail polish (หญ้าเล็ บนก) and guava that
was planted on the back of the farm was then
planted on two sides of the grooves and let the
trees lean down the grooves.
• This method can reduce the problem of hot
weather to a certain degree.
• Klong Jinda's collaborative work is learning how
to visit the farms of friends in the community,
exchange and learn how to adapt to the climate
change of each farm in order to apply to their
own farms.
• In the past, members of Khlong Jinda often did
not have time to pay attention on neighbors or
neighboring communities.
• Because most of the time, they are busy with
taking care of their own farms.
• Currently, Community leaders jointly map flood
risk in Klong Jinda. The results have enabled
communities to analyze flood risk areas and
jointly solved problems particularly during the
great flood in 2011 with the pumps.
• The community members jointly contributed
funds for management and fuel costs.
Case Study 2: Organic farmers in Sanam
Chaikhet district in Chachoengsao province
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