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Political Economic Analysis of Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) in India: Agroforestry in Sikkim

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Nagar College, Murshidabad, West Bengal, India
  • 2Eastern Himalaya/Northeast India, ATREE, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

Res. J. Language and Literature Sci., Volume 12, Issue (3), Pages 46-49, June,19 (2025)

Abstract

In 2022, we conducted a study under the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) in Sikkim on “Trees in cropland” (Agroforestry), as an NCS pathway. The paper consists of the study and analysis of the existing policies and stakeholders for Agroforestry as an NCS pathway in Sikkim; identified key constraints and enablers for implementation of Agroforestry in Sikkim from political, social and economic perspectives; and recommendations made on major policy and/or legal changes that would help to overcome the identified constraints.

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