Exploring climate change perceptions, rainfall trends and perceived barriers to adaptation in a drought affected region in India

Panda, Architesh

doi:10.1007/s11069-016-2456-0

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“…Smallholder farmers in the Chinyanja Triangle region are experiencing climate change (rainfall and temperature changes) and responding to these changes through alterations in the adoption and use of sustainable agricultural practices. Previous studies, for example [35,36,57,62,63], have also linked farmer perceptions and climatic action. Findings from these studies advocate improved adaptation planning at the local level, through the incorporation of local level perceptions regarding climatic irregularities.…”

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Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Change and the Use of Sustainable Agricultural Practices in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa

Makate

Mango

2017

Social Sciences

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Abstract:In developing regions with high levels of poverty and a dependence on climate sensitive agriculture, studies focusing on climate change adaptation, planning, and policy processes, have gained relative importance over the years. This study assesses the impact of farmer perceptions regarding climate change on the use of sustainable agricultural practices as an adaptation strategy in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa. In this empirical approach, we adopt methods that account for the plausibility that unmeasured characteristics exist, which are correlated with perceptions and the adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Practices. We use a unique and representative dataset collected in December 2012 and June 2013, from smallholder farmers in the Chinyanja Triangle. The results indicate that farmer's perceptions significantly influence the use of sustainable agricultural practices. Specifically, we established that farmer perceptions considerably impact the use of grain legume rotations, inorganic fertilizers, compost, and farmyard manure. Our results highlight the need for a serious and perhaps equal consideration of farmer perceptions regarding climate change, as important inputs to climate change adaptation policies targeted at enhancing climatic resilience in smallholder farming communities. This is plausible as the adaptation and pliability of farmers to the effects of climate change should be a social process involving the collective efforts from various stakeholders.

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Section: Conclusion and Policy Implicationsmentioning

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Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Change and the Use of Sustainable Agricultural Practices in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa

Makate

Mango

2017

Social Sciences

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“…There is a great need to support the community of private and public entities working to deliver and improve these tools. Success requires appropriately downscaled climate models, coupled with next generation, regionally relevant cropping system models, presented through interfaces that based on economic and social contexts of their intended user populations (Kibue et al, 2016;Marshall et al, 2016;Nguyen et al, 2016;Panda, 2016).…”

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Confronting Climate Change Challenges to Dryland Cereal Production: A Call for Collaborative, Transdisciplinary Research, and Producer Engagement

Eigenbrode

Binns²,

Huggins

2018

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Semi-arid cereal systems face challenges worldwide that are driven by ongoing and projected climate change. These challenges include ensuring cropping system resilience and productivity under changing water and temperature regimes while reversing soil degradation, reducing crop susceptibility to pests, pathogens and weed competition, and exploiting genetic resources to develop cultivars with resilience to climate stresses and improved compatibility with cropping system innovations. Meeting these interdependent challenges requires transdisciplinary efforts that integrate knowledge across many scientific domains. The USDA-NIFA-funded coordinated agricultural project, "Regional Approaches to Climate Change for Pacific Northwest Agriculture" (REACCH), employed this transdisciplinary approach to address climate change and sustainability challenges for rain-fed cereal-based systems in the semi-arid intermountain Pacific Northwest. To engage with and contribute to similar efforts globally, REACCH sponsored a workshop "Transitioning Cereal Systems to Adapt to Climate Change" (TCSACC) in November 2015. Participants from 17 countries and five continents with expertise in agronomy, crop physiology, crop modeling, crop protection, breeding and genetics, sociology and economics shared their perspectives, successes, and challenges to achieving transdisciplinary research integration for semi-arid cereal systems under changing climates. Conference goals were to: (1) strengthen the global network of researchers addressing climate change effects on semi-arid cereal-based systems, (2) share the approaches to achieving transdisciplinary collaboration to advance climate change resilience in cereal systems, and (3) identify the elements of a collaborative research agenda that are needed to advance global food security in the twenty-first century. This paper distills the conference themes and summarizes the calls to action that were discussed: Establish coordinated, large scale, transdisciplinary efforts; Consider Genetic × Environment × Management × Social system (G × E × M × S) interactions; Integrate social, economic, and biophysical science, and Eigenbrode et al.Dryland Cereal Production and Climate Change engineering; Improve integration among knowledge communities; Consider global context of production systems; Develop more inclusive cropping system models; Enable comprehensive data management and data sharing; Include landscape and ecosystem services perspectives; Establish and support existing global collaboration networks.

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“…Although voluminous data has been accumulating on vulnerability over the years across the world 1,3,9,15,[17][18][19] , it continues to be a subject of discussion and research in different geographical settings. It is much more relevant in the context of rural India, where households often witness climatic shocks such as cyclonic storms, floods and droughts which are likely to increase in the foreseeable future due to climate change 12,13,20,21 . Previous studies in the Indian context assess risks and shocks that affect welfare of the households and intensity of these shocks, identify potential groups of vulnerable households and determinants, and constraints and effectiveness of various coping strategies 2,7,10,13,[18][19][20][22][23][24] .…”

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“…The western part of Odisha is vulnerable to droughts and frequent deficient rainfall spells which affect a majority of rural households 12,13 . Further, there is a possibility of increase in probability of severe and extreme droughts in the state 31 .…”

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“…In doing so, we study the effects of a specific developmental intervention undertaken in rural Western Odisha (prior to 2011 spelled as Orissa), India on the vulnerability of households. This region is highly vulnerable to climatic risks like droughts, deficient rainfall spells and flash floods [11][12][13] . The intervention in question is the Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project (WORLP) funded by the Department for International Development, United Kingdom and implemented over a period of ten years (2000-10) by the Odisha Watershed Development Mission (OWDM), an autonomous agency of the Government of Odisha.…”

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Can Developmental Interventions Reduce Households’ Vulnerability? Empirical Evidence from Rural India

Patnaik¹,

Das²,

Bahinipati³

et al. 2017

Current Science

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Vulnerability is a multidimensional concept incorporating notions of risk and poverty. While it has been established that higher incidence of poverty in developing countries exacerbates vulnerability, the role of risk requires closer inspection. Developmental interventions in these countries target poverty reduction, which in turn, could reduce vulnerability. However, a key question is whether developmental interventions reduce the vulnerability and risks faced by households. To answer this, the present study empirically examines the impact of developmental interventions on the vulnerability of households in a rural Indian setting. The major advantage hence is that it not only looks into the impact on aggregate vulnerability but also its different components such as poverty, covariate, idiosyncratic and unexplained risks. Empirical analysis is based on a survey of 800 households in the drought-prone villages of western Odisha, India, where a key developmental intervention, Western Orissa Rural Livelihood Project was implemented during the last decade. Adopting 'vulnerability as expected utility' approach, this study reveals three major findings. First, both aggregate risk and poverty are the dominant sources of vulnerability, with the former accounting for a sizable share. Second, the households that benefited from livelihood interventions are found less vulnerable. Third, the other major determinants of vulnerability are education, access to social network, family size and crop-diversification. From a policy perspective, results support continuation of these programmes, but realigning these also target risk reduction.

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Exploring climate change perceptions, rainfall trends and perceived barriers to adaptation in a drought affected region in India

Cited by 49 publications

References 45 publications

Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Change and the Use of Sustainable Agricultural Practices in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa

Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Change and the Use of Sustainable Agricultural Practices in the Chinyanja Triangle, Southern Africa

Confronting Climate Change Challenges to Dryland Cereal Production: A Call for Collaborative, Transdisciplinary Research, and Producer Engagement

Can Developmental Interventions Reduce Households’ Vulnerability? Empirical Evidence from Rural India

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