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Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture in Selected Asian Countries: Insights from micro-level studies and implications for policy

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Title Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture in Selected Asian Countries: Insights from micro-level studies and implications for policy
 
Creator Bantilan, M C S
Mohan, G
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Climate change
 
Description Climate change is a big challenge to the agricultural
sectors especially for the semi-arid tropic (SAT) areas
in Asia. As is already well known, billions of people
including the poor mainly depend on agriculture as a
major source of livelihood. Moreover, agriculture is a key
sector, which is highly vulnerable to climate change due
to its prominent dependence on weather and climate.
To cope with this challenge, farmers are required to
adopt essential adaptation measures from time to time.
In recent times, adaptation to climate change has been
given increasing international attention as confidence in
climate change projections is getting higher (Ole Mertz et
al. 2009). In fact, each developing country will experience
the effects of climate change in a different way, not
only because of differences in the projected change of
climate parameters, but also because of vulnerabilities and
adaptive capacities that vary between nations and regions.
Adaptation strategies for the vulnerable groups are crucial
because failure to adapt could lead them to suffer from
‘significant deprivation, social disruption and population
displacement, and even morbidity and mortality’
(Downing et al. 1997).
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2014
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7649/1/PB-25_new.pdf
Bantilan, M C S and Mohan, G (2014) Adaptation to Climate Change in Agriculture in Selected Asian Countries: Insights from micro-level studies and implications for policy. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.