{"id":24599,"date":"2022-08-23T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/?post_type=ground_up_stories&#038;p=24599"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:11:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:41:02","slug":"a-village-tackles-cyclones-why-are-women-in-odisha-regrowing-a-forest","status":"publish","type":"ground_up_stories","link":"https:\/\/idronline.org\/kn-in\/ground-up-stories\/a-village-tackles-cyclones-why-are-women-in-odisha-regrowing-a-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"A village tackles cyclones: Why are women in Odisha regrowing a forest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Nurturing a Forest: How SHGs in Puri scaled nature-based solutions against climate risks | CEEW\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zb6HY08hSjI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p>Five decades ago, when Bengalata Rout arrived in Odisha&rsquo;s Tandahara village, the natural environment was very different from what it is now. &ldquo;When I got married into this village, the sea was very far away. Now it has come very close,&rsquo;&rsquo; Rout says. Today, 64-year-old Rout and other villagers live in constant fear as Tandahara is frequently battered by cyclones and high tides.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Odisha has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceew.in\/publications\/preparing-india-for-extreme-climate-weather-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a four-fold increase<\/a> in extreme floods and a three-fold increase in extreme cyclones since the year 2000. During the 1999 supercyclone, Tandahara village lost most of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/15-lakh-casuarina-trees-to-be-planted-in-coastal-areas-of-alappuzha\/article34821355.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">casuarina forest<\/a> that acted as a natural buffer against storm surges and seawater intrusion. Since then, seawater has been destroying the paddy cultivation of the village. Now 10 women-led self-help groups have come together to replant the forest, which they believe can be a defence against extreme climate events. Every day women in groups of 20 take turns to water saplings. &ldquo;Our village exists because of the forest,&rdquo; says Rout, president of the village forest committee.&nbsp;<\/p><p><em>Shawn&nbsp;Sebastian is a documentary filmmaker, independent journalist, and the founder of Drokpa Films.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p><p><em>This film is a part of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceew.in\/faces-of-climate-resilience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Faces of Climate Resilience<\/em><\/a><em> documentary project by Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) in partnership with India Climate Collaborative, EdelGive Foundation, and Drokpa Films.<\/em><\/p><p>&mdash;<\/p><p><strong>Know more: <\/strong>Learn how <a href=\"https:\/\/idronline.org\/ground-up-stories\/farm-ponds-lead-to-higher-incomes-for-grape-farmers-in-maharashtra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">farm ponds<\/a> led to an increase in income for grape farmers in Maharashtra.&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>Do more: <\/strong>Connect with Shawn Sebastian at <a href=\"mailto:shawnsebastian17@gmail.com\">shawnsebastian17@gmail.com<\/a> to learn more about and support his work; connect with Milan Jacob at <a href=\"mailto:milan.jacob@ceew.in\">milan.jacob@ceew.in<\/a> to know more about the Faces of Climate Resilience project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":24600,"template":"","categories":[1889],"tags":[466,3613,3615,3702,3704],"series":[],"meta-filter":[],"schema-filter":[743],"no-display":[],"class_list":["post-24599","ground_up_stories","type-ground_up_stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-emergency","tag-climate-change","tag-disaster","tag-ecology","tag-rural-india","tag-self-help-groups","contributor-shawn-sebastian","states-odisha","schema-filter-article"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - 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