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A district level assessment of vulnerability of Indian agriculture to climate change

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Title A district level assessment of vulnerability of Indian agriculture to climate change
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Creator Rama Rao, C.A., B.M.K. Raju, A.V.M. Subba Rao, K.V. Rao, V.U.M. Rao, Kausalya Ramachandran, B. Venkateswarlu, A.K. Sikka, M. Srinivasa Rao, M. Maheswari and Ch. Srinivasa Rao
 
Subject Agriculture, adaptive capacity and exposure, climate change, sensitivity, vulnerability
 
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Assessing vulnerability to climate change and variability is an important first step in evolving appropriate
adaptation strategies to changing climate. Such an
analysis also helps in targeting adaptation investments, specific to more vulnerable regions. Adopting
the definition of vulnerability given by IPCC, vulnerability was assessed for 572 rural districts of India.
Thirty eight indicators reflecting sensitivity, adaptive
capacity and exposure were chosen to construct the
composite vulnerability index. Climate projections of
the PRECIS model for A1B scenario for the period
2021–2050 were considered to capture the future climate. The data on these indicators were normalized
based on the nature of relationship. They were then
combined into three indices for sensitivity, exposure
and adaptive capacity, which were then averaged with
weights given by experts, to obtain the relative vulnerability index. Based on the index, all the districts
were divided into five categories with equal number of
districts. One more district was added to ‘very high’
and ‘high’ categories. The analysis showed that districts with higher levels of vulnerability are located in
the western and peninsular India. It is also observed that the highly fertile Indo-Gangetic Plains are relatively more sensitive, but less vulnerable because of
higher adaptive capacity and lower exposure.
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Date 2021-07-30T04:05:29Z
2021-07-30T04:05:29Z
2016-05-25
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Vol.110, No.10
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/51261
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Current Science