{"id":20026328,"date":"2018-12-18T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T08:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thethirdpole.net\/?p=26328"},"modified":"2021-09-17T22:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T17:07:51","slug":"uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples"},"content":{"rendered":"

With his boyish grin, 28-year-old Anil Chand is a popular man in the village of Jadipani in Tehri Garhwal. Not only do people know him well because he is a local boy but also because of how he explains things to them: how apple trees just don\u2019t seem to be sprouting fruit like they did and why peach is their new answer. Or for that matter why shifting of pea sowing from February to November and cabbages from November to March-April is a better idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe climate here, like in most places is changing and changing fast. We have to move according to this change. I try and convince as many farmers as I can to understand this change and adapt<\/a>. Of course it is not always easy but yes, even if two get convinced and change, the next year, the ones who didn\u2019t, see the crop and want to change the sowing time or think of changing the crop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jadipani — in what was once popular as the Mussoorie-Chamba fruit belt — is facing a tough challenge. The famous apple crop has been hit hard due to climate change. Other crops, such as vegetables mostly grown for personal consumption, have also taken a hit.<\/p>\n

A small push for change<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chand works with Himmothan<\/a>, an NGO initiated by the Tata Trusts in 2001, to work with several villages in Uttarakhand. The NGO is working to help people adapt to these changes, which is crucial to the survival of his village, and many like it.<\/p>\n

Anjana Negi is happy she agreed to the suggested changes. \u201cNot only did we get a good crop of cabbage because of early sowing but also got more cabbages as we were told to try row sowing. It was different from how we generally scattered the seeds.\u201d Another change is trying a new crop — spring onions.\u00a0 \u201cMy mother-in-law is convinced they won\u2019t grow. But they seem to be doing okay as of now. I am keeping my fingers crossed,\u201d she chuckles.<\/p>\n

The big shift has been in the fruits. The apple trees might not be sprouting enough apples but a good number of villagers have tried moving to peaches. Khushi Ram Dabral a 39-year-old farmer in the village of Churaildhar, a stone\u2019s throw away from Jadipani, sold peaches worth INR 70,000 (USD 980) in the summer of 2016. \u201cIt was an awful sight to see my apple trees dry up over the years. The suggestion to try peach came as a saviour,\u201d he smiled, showing his peach trees like a proud parent.<\/p>\n

Ganesh Bisht, a local villager who heads Himmothan\u2019s initiative in the fruit belt, is happy the numbers of people like Dabral is growing. \u201cAdaptation is crucial and we are glad the 60 SHGS (Self Help Groups) in 15 villages here are slowly but surely embracing the changes. From trying Napier grass (an evergreen variety that survives throughout the year) for their cattle to line sowing to learning work at a dairy opened in the village, they are doing it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Change for the better<\/strong><\/p>\n

About eight kilometres from Joshimath is the picturesque village of Badgaon in Chamoli district. The evening sun lights up the faces of a group of women sitting on the cemented roof of a house, not too far from a ribbon-like road. Perfect rows of vegetables can be seen in the backdrop. The tikaas on their forehead tell you they\u2019ve all just been at a religious function. There is laughter, there are jokes. It looks as perfect as village life can.<\/p>\n

But things were not as rosy a few years ago, 75-year-old Usha Rani Kamdi said. \u201cThis entire belt was known for apples, khubani (peaches), chulu (wild peach), and alubukhara (apricot). And when we got several feet of snow, our fruits only grew sweeter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aithi Devi joins in while attending to a naughty grandchild. \u201cI still remember when I\u2019d got married and came here, I remember seeing several feet of snow. Sometimes it would be up to our knees and sometimes we couldn\u2019t open doors till we removed the snow with our spades.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those days of snow are far gone. \u201cWe saw our trees dry up and our incomes following them. Those were difficult times. We just didn\u2019t know what to do. Fruits are what we\u2019d planted for years and here we were, clueless of how else we\u2019d survive,\u201d says Vinod Singh Bhandari, from a group of men smoking bidi, not too far away.<\/p>\n

A visit changed much. \u201cIt was a decade back. They were experts from Auli and they went around telling farmers how to grow different things. And that\u2019s when they told us to start growing vegetables as the weather was changing in our village, like in several other villages; that we should try growing cauliflower, cabbage, coriander and rai (a variety of green vegetable). Of course we were apprehensive but we weren\u2019t gaining anything from our fruits anyway,\u201d said Usha Rani Kamdi, the oldest and the most talkative of the lot.<\/p>\n

It started with a few farmers who thought it was worth taking a risk. \u201cWe had nothing to lose, did we? The snowfall was erratic; a traditional water source was not flowing as well as it did.\u00a0 <\/strong>We had to do something if we wanted to be living happily with our families in the village. The other option was to just go to the cities looking for odd jobs. I decided to try growing what the expert team had suggested,\u201d said 35-year-old Rajeshwari Devi.<\/p>\n

A few months later when the cauliflowers grew to a perfect size and the cabbage became tightly plump, other farmers were inspired. And that was the beginning of change in the beautiful village of Badgaon, today known as one of best vegetable suppliers in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe grow about three quintals (a quintal is 100 kilogrammes) of cauliflower and cabbage. It would have gone up to six quintals if we didn\u2019t have to deal with pigs digging up our vegetables. But yes, we still have enough to use it for ourselves and sell in the sabzi mandi (wholesale vegetable market). And since our vegetables are so good, we also get decent rates,\u201d says Shailaja Bhatt, a teenager who has been listening to the conversation.<\/p>\n

Milking a crisis <\/strong><\/p>\n

As we head further down the road, we reach our next destination. Kundi Khola, another scenic village. There is maize; lemons and perfectly orange kinu (a variety of orange common in the hills). There is lush grass (to feed cattle), tiny white flowers of ogal<\/em> (a local plant used for flour), and some fields of wheat.<\/p>\n

The village looks unusually quiet. An old lady is carefully sifting whole red chillis left to get crisp in the sun. \u201cSee they are covered with dust from the dam again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

When finally convinced to speak, 80-year-old Sureshi Devi said, \u201cWe are trying to fight the situation we were put in. First our water source dried up after the work at the dam began on Vishnu Gaad (one of the many hydropower dams being built in Uttarakhand). This also explains the muck and dust on everything. And if that wasn\u2019t bad enough, things that grew in our village easily over the year \u2014 potatoes, pears, apples, rajma (kidney beans), almost all of them stopped growing. We started newer things here. We have cattle, and we mostly grow grass and citrus trees. And thanks to all this, the number of wild pigs here that dig our crops out has also gone down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Between climate change and human interventions, the villagers had to look for a solution. Farmer Puskar Singh puts it simply, \u201cWe had the choice of fleeing our village and go looking for work, or to work around the situation. We decided to choose the latter. We are after all ancestral farmers and there is nothing we can do better than farming. About two years back I decided to try growing kinu and lemons since apple weren\u2019t growing.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the experiment worked several other farmers followed.<\/p>\n

Today almost all the 150 families in the village own at least three kinu trees and plan to have more, added Vishweshwar Prasad Semwal, another farmer. This year Singh also tried experimenting with pomegranate.<\/p>\n

Another change that has turned the life around for most families is the village\u2019s shift towards dairy farming, says 72-year-old Kalpeshwari Semwal while she walks to her cow shed to show me her two cows and a new born calf, .<\/p>\n

\u201cEach family has one if not more cows. Since irrigation water was becoming an issue, we started growing grass for the cattle. And since they are eating well, they are giving milk. We are selling this milk at INR 35-40 (USD 0.49-0.56) per litre,\u201d she said, running her hand lovingly over the new born calf.<\/p>\n

Not too far away from Semwal\u2019s shed is that of Jhuppa Devi. \u201cThese animals have given us a fresh lease of life\u201d she said with a wide grin.<\/p>\n

This is the eighth in a special series of reports by women journalists, done in partnership with ICIMOD, showing how vulnerable communities innovate and adapt to the impacts of climate change.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region is the world\u2019s youngest, highest and most fragile mountain system. It is one of the areas most vulnerable to climate change, where temperatures are rising much faster than the global average. It is also an area of huge cultural diversity \u2013 where some of the poorest communities face huge challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience Research<\/a> (HI-AWARE) is a research consortium that has carried out scientific and participatory research to better understand the impacts of a changing climate in the region. As part of this project, HI-AWARE reached out to women journalists across the region to capture local experiences \u2013 from high in the icy mountains to the sandy plains.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

From farming silt on the banks of the Gandak, to harvesting water through artificial glaciers in the mountains, these stories capture the innovative adaptation strategies people are using and that can serve as lessons for communities elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As climate change impacts and human intervention push traditional farmers in India\u2019s Uttarakhand to the wall, they are adapting by embracing new crops and livelihoods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2194,"featured_media":20022266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[17827,519,20000237,50040707,607],"hashtags":[],"country":[20000111],"class_list":["post-20026328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate-adaptation","tag-climate-impacts","tag-sustainable-development","tag-the-third-pole","tag-water-scarcity","country-india"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nUttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As climate change impacts and human intervention push traditional farmers in India\u2019s Uttarakhand to the wall, they are adapting by embracing new crops and livelihoods\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As climate change impacts and human intervention push traditional farmers in India\u2019s Uttarakhand to the wall, they are adapting by embracing new crops and livelihoods\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dialogue Earth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-18T08:26:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-17T17:07:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"790\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"444\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Omair Ahmad\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Omair Ahmad\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/9a848773a1a37281aebe783ad3fcd5b2\"},\"headline\":\"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-18T08:26:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-17T17:07:51+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/\"},\"wordCount\":1696,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Climate adaptation\",\"Climate impacts\",\"Sustainable development\",\"The Third Pole\",\"Water scarcity\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Climate\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/\",\"name\":\"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples | Dialogue Earth\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-18T08:26:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-17T17:07:51+00:00\",\"description\":\"As climate change impacts and human intervention push traditional farmers in India\u2019s Uttarakhand to the wall, they are adapting by embracing new crops and livelihoods\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg\",\"width\":790,\"height\":444,\"caption\":\"An apple farmer in Kinnaur with his trees [image by Manu Moudgil]\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Dialogue Earth\",\"description\":\"Global climate and environment news\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png\",\"width\":256,\"height\":256,\"caption\":\"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DialogueEarth_\",\"\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DialogueEarth.English\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dialogue.earth\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dialogueearth\/\"],\"publishingPrinciples\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/about\/\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/9a848773a1a37281aebe783ad3fcd5b2\",\"name\":\"Omair Ahmad\",\"description\":\"Omair Ahmad is South Asia editor of thethirdpole.net.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/omairahmad\/\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/prachi\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples | Dialogue Earth","description":"As climate change impacts and human intervention push traditional farmers in India\u2019s Uttarakhand to the wall, they are adapting by embracing new crops and livelihoods","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples","og_description":"As climate change impacts and human intervention push traditional farmers in India\u2019s Uttarakhand to the wall, they are adapting by embracing new crops and livelihoods","og_url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/","og_site_name":"Dialogue Earth","article_published_time":"2018-12-18T08:26:45+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-09-17T17:07:51+00:00","og_image":[{"width":790,"height":444,"url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Omair Ahmad","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/"},"author":{"name":"Omair Ahmad","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/9a848773a1a37281aebe783ad3fcd5b2"},"headline":"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples","datePublished":"2018-12-18T08:26:45+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-17T17:07:51+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/"},"wordCount":1696,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg","keywords":["Climate adaptation","Climate impacts","Sustainable development","The Third Pole","Water scarcity"],"articleSection":["Climate"],"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/","name":"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples | Dialogue Earth","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg","datePublished":"2018-12-18T08:26:45+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-17T17:07:51+00:00","description":"As climate change impacts and human intervention push traditional farmers in India\u2019s Uttarakhand to the wall, they are adapting by embracing new crops and livelihoods","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/An-apple-farmer-showing-his-tree.jpg","width":790,"height":444,"caption":"An apple farmer in Kinnaur with his trees [image by Manu Moudgil]"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/uttarakhand-villages-adapt-to-life-beyond-apples\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Uttarakhand villages adapt to life beyond apples"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/","name":"Dialogue Earth","description":"Global climate and environment news","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization","name":"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png","width":256,"height":256,"caption":"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/DialogueEarth_","","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DialogueEarth.English","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dialogue.earth\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dialogueearth\/"],"publishingPrinciples":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/about\/"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/9a848773a1a37281aebe783ad3fcd5b2","name":"Omair Ahmad","description":"Omair Ahmad is South Asia editor of thethirdpole.net.","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/omairahmad\/","sameAs":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/prachi\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20026328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20026328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20026328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20022266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20026328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20026328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20026328"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=20026328"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=20026328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}