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Climate Change, Gender and Adaptation Strategies in Dryland Systems of South Asia

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Title Climate Change, Gender and Adaptation Strategies in Dryland Systems of South Asia
 
Creator Palanisami, Kuppannan
 
Contributor Haileslassie, Amare
Wani, Suhas
Craufurd, Peter
Shalander, Kumar
Krishna Reddy, Kakumanu
Ranganathan, CR
 
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Description There is a blossoming literature on gender and climate change issues broadly focused on the
adverse effects of climate condition. These studies are mostly focused on gender inequalities in
agrarian communities of developing countries where the dependence on climatic conditions for
living is more apparent. Frequently, the issues of climate change, poverty, gender and economic
empowerment are addressed as the most prominent in developing regions. In some cases,
the studies narrow down the focus to specific weather events like droughts, floods or natural
disasters in rural communities. The agrarian communities of backward areas in South Asia are
some of the representative examples which are frequently presented in climate change and
gender studies. A special emphasis is given on the gender factor in India as a determinant for unequal
distribution of climate change impacts both on household and community. However, a
quantitative research on role of gender in climate change and livelihoods in rural India is often
missing. Therefore, we conducted a quantitative research in India to understand the role of
gender in the current and anticipated climate change impacts. The main objective of the study
was to investigate the linkages between gender and climate change. More specifically the study
focused on gender-wise perceptions of climate change, understanding coping strategies followed
by gender, participation of gender in decision-making and vulnerability of male and female
households to the poverty. The analysis was carried out during 2012-13 based on a survey of
1019 randomly sampled households in six districts of Andhra Pradesh (Anantapur and Kurnool),
Karnataka (Bijapur), and western Rajasthan (Jaisalmer, Barmer and Jodhpur) as action sites.
The results showed that most of the households had encountered more than one shock and
drought was the most severe shock encountered by males and females in all three states/regions
followed by irregular weather in Andhra Pradesh and untimely rains in Karnataka. Hailstorm
was also a major shock encountered in Rajasthan. It was also found that the male and female
households had same level of perception of drought, flood, animal disease and temperature
fluctuations. The percentages of female households who observed these shocks were more than
those of male households.
 
Date 2015-07-15
2016-02-15T09:00:56Z
2016-02-15T09:00:56Z
 
Type Internal Report
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8978/
https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/PSXKAS55
Kuppannan Palanisami, Amare Haileslassie, Suhas Wani, Peter Craufurd, Kumar Shalander, Kakumanu Krishna Reddy, CR Ranganathan. (15/7/2015). Climate Change, Gender and Adaptation Strategies in Dryland Systems of South Asia. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4398
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
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Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)