{"id":19294,"date":"2015-10-07T19:58:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=19294"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:00:57","slug":"ali-dehlavi-pardee-school-idrc-climate-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2015\/10\/07\/ali-dehlavi-pardee-school-idrc-climate-adaptation\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar Explores Climate Change Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19295\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19295\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/Ali-Dehlavi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/Ali-Dehlavi-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ali Dehlavi of WWF-Pakistan presents research seminar.\" width=\"516\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/Ali-Dehlavi-516x300.jpg 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/Ali-Dehlavi-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2015\/10\/Ali-Dehlavi-1024x596.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ali Dehlavi of WWF-Pakistan presents research seminar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Ali Dehlavi, an economist who works at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwfpak.org\">WWF-Pakistan<\/a> presented a research seminar jointly organized by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/\">Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/\">Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies<\/a> at Boston University on October 7, 2015. The seminar, titled <em>&#8220;Climate Change Adaptation in the Indus Ecoregion: a Practitioner&#8217;s Take on Empirics,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>focused on lessons from econometric studies of climate change adaptation in the Indus Ecoregion of Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p><span>Ali Dehlavi presented the findings of various streams of research he has undertaken in the\u00a0Indus ecoregion of Pakistan. This included the\u00a0findings of a major research project on <a href=\"http:\/\/sdpi.tv\/show.php?cat=env&amp;id=709\"><em>Climate Change, Social Vulnerability and Food Security in Pakistan<\/em><\/a>\u00a0which was supported by the Canadian development research agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idrc.ca\/EN\/Pages\/default.aspx\">International Development Research Center (IDRC | CRDI)<\/a>.\u00a0Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/adil-najam\/\">Adil Najam<\/a>, Dean of the Boston University Pardee School was the Lead Investigator for this research project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The main findings of this\u00a0research\u00a0can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwfpak.org\/ccap\/pdf\/110215_IdrcStudy.pdf\">here<\/a>. A short video summarizing the findings presented at the seminar can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/sdpi.tv\/show.php?cat=env&amp;id=709\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\njwplayer(\"promo-home1\").setup({\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    autostart: true,\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfile: 'http:\/\/www.sdpi.tv\/vid\/LUMSConference2015.mp4' ,\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twidth: '965',\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\theight: '500',\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timage: 'http:\/\/www.sdpi.tv\/pics\/thumbnails\/LUMSConference2015.jpg',\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t});\r\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Ali Dehlavi highlighted the challenges of climate change adaptation in Pakistan and presented the findings of what it would cost farmers. In particular, the main finding\u00a0is that &#8220;in 25 years\u2019 time productivity of land would reduce by 8-10% or by up to Pakistan Rupees\u00a030,000 per acre in Punjab and Sindh (in Pakistan) owing to Climate Change, but gains in yield of up to 52% can be achieved if non-adapters were to adapt .&#8221; The implications of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwfpak.org\/ccap\/pdf\/110215_IdrcStudy.pdf\">finding<\/a> is:<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote><p><span>The impact of implementing on-farm adaptation strategies is estimated for three of the most important crops grown across Sindh and Punjab provinces: wheat, rice, and cotton. There exists significant positive benefits from adaptation for most of the farmers in the sample. For those that actually adapted, productive benefits are positive for wheat and cotton, but not significantly different from zero for rice. For those that did not adapt, the gains from adapting to climate change for all crops are predicted to be large. These findings provide evidence that the use of strategies to adapt to climate change can have a positive impact on food security.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ali Dehlavi is an economist who works for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwfpak.org\">WWF-Pakistan<\/a>, was trained at University College London, and whose work focuses on applying economic valuation analysis to environmental challenges, especially climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Dehlavi speaks at Research Seminar organized by the Pardee Center and Pardee School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1562,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8432],"tags":[8802,8680,1720,8961,509,8962,9001],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19294"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19309,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions\/19309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}