Rubber in East assures the perceived benefits; a case study showing increased rubber production, amelioration of the climate and improved rural livelihood

Rodrigo, V. H. L.; Iqbal, Sajid; Munasinghe, E. S.; Balasooriya, B. M. D. C.; Jayathilake, P. M. M.

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“…Temperature rise and soil moisture deficits are some of the major environmental concerns caused by climate change. Environmental benefits of rubber cultivation were envisaged with mid-day air temperatures dropping up to 6 o C from outside to inside the rubber lands with an average value of 3.7 o C for the daytime and also a doubling in surface soil moisture (Rodrigo et al 2017). Also, this provides the evidence that farmers would have a more comfortable environment working with rubber than with traditional short-term crops.…”

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Natural rubber systems and climate change: Proceedings and extended abstracts from the online workshop, 23–25 June 2020

Pinizzotto¹,

Aziz²,

Gitz³

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Conclusions of the chairSession 5: The way forward: Short term actions and long term plans v This report gathers the extended abstracts of the presentations from the joint technical workshop on Natural rubber systems and climate change, organized by IRSG, IRRDB, CIRAD, CIFOR-ICRAF and FTA. The workshop was held online from 23rd to 25th June 2020.We wish to acknowledge the essential role of all the chairpersons in moderating and managing sessions and sub-sessions of this workshop:

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Natural rubber systems and climate change: Proceedings and extended abstracts from the online workshop, 23–25 June 2020

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Aziz²,

Gitz³

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“…In addition to the improvement of rural livelihood providing a continuous permanent income source, increasing the rubber production in the country and sustain the environment through enhancing the tree cover are also expected in this effort. Initial studies conducted so far to explore the benefits of rubber cultivation in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka have given an indication of significant positive impact on rural livelihood (Rodrigo et al, 2009;Rodrigo et al, 2014). However detailed investigations are required to identify the contribution of rubber cultivation on wellbeing of the rural community in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka.…”

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Livelihood capital improvements in the rubber growing community of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka

Munasinghe

Rodrigo

Jayathilake

et al. 2019

J Rubber Res Inst Sri Lanka

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Rubber cultivation in Sri Lanka has recently been expanded to the Eastern Province.With an initial observation on the positive effects of this process on the rural community in this region, the present study was conducted to either characterize or quantify the impacts of rubber cultivation on the rural community assessing the livelihood capital assets, i.e. Human, Physical, Natural, Financial and Social aspects. Padiyathalawa Divisional Secretaries area of the Eastern Province with a reasonable number of rubber lands under harvesting was selected for the study. All farmers having mature rubber fields (33) were assessed together with similar number of non-rubber farmers of the same village for comparison. Both types of farmers were in the range of 40-60 years of age and educated up to secondary level in the local school. All had no other occupation than farming and having an average of four members in a family and all had sufficient family labour for on-farm activities. With the additional income generated from rubber, a higher level of Financial capital was observed among rubber farmers. As a result, expenditure of rubber farmers was 40% higher than the rest and its pattern showed that rubber farmers spend more on children's education, family health and charity gaining a higher level of Human capital. Rubber cultivation has not so far influenced the Natural capital since all farmers had equal opportunities in accessing water sources and lands with fertile soils. Further, rubber associated development in Physical capital has made farmers to have basic infrastructure facilities for their houses, some luxury appliances for convenience, facilities to strengthen social connectivity and improvement in farming. With more social interactions, Social capital was found to be higher among rubber farmers. All these findings confirmed the suitability of rubber cultivation as a livelihood improvement strategy in rural development programmes in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka.

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Do rubber-based agroforestry practices build resilience upon poverty incidence? A case study from Moneragala district in Sri Lanka

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Rubber in East assures the perceived benefits; a case study showing increased rubber production, amelioration of the climate and improved rural livelihood

Abstract: With the development of agronomic protocols to cultivate rubber in the prevailing conditions in the Eastern province and identification of land availability, the

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Natural rubber systems and climate change: Proceedings and extended abstracts from the online workshop, 23–25 June 2020

Natural rubber systems and climate change: Proceedings and extended abstracts from the online workshop, 23–25 June 2020

Livelihood capital improvements in the rubber growing community of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka

Do rubber-based agroforestry practices build resilience upon poverty incidence? A case study from Moneragala district in Sri Lanka

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