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Climate risk, vulnerability and resilience: Supporting livelihood of smallholders in semiarid India

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11512/
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104729
doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104729
 
Title Climate risk, vulnerability and resilience: Supporting livelihood of smallholders in semiarid India
 
Creator Shalander, K
Mishra, A K
Pramanik, S
Mamidanna, S
Whitbread, A M
 
Subject Climate Risk
Smallholder Farmers
Drought
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Using panel data from 256 smallholder households from 2006 to 2014 in three semiarid regions India, this study
develops a framework for quantifying vulnerability and resilience by accounting for a smallholder household’s
ability to adapt and respond to climatic risk. Findings indicate that although smallholders with smaller landholdings are more vulnerable to climatic risk (drought, in our case), they are also more resilient than their
counterparts. Results reveal that cropping intensity and crop risk increase the vulnerability of smallholders to
climatic risk, but large farms are less vulnerable. Diversification in on-farm enterprises, like livestock units, and off-farm income sources, play significant roles in increasing smallholder households’ resilience to climatic risk. Other drivers of resiliency include the choice of cash and risky crops, borrowing capacity, liquid investments, and the ability to regain yields.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2020-05
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11512/1/Climatic%20variability%20Resilience%20framework.pdf
Shalander, K and Mishra, A K and Pramanik, S and Mamidanna, S and Whitbread, A M (2020) Climate risk, vulnerability and resilience: Supporting livelihood of smallholders in semiarid India. Land Use Policy (TSI), 97. pp. 1-12. ISSN 0264-8377