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

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

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Research Program : Innovation Systems for the Drylands (ISD)
CRP:	CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Drought, Risk analysis, Comparable crop productivity index, Composite vulnerability and resilience index, India, Smallholder farmers
Subjects:	Others > Climate Risk Others > Smallholder Farmers Others > Drought Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Depositing User:	Mr Arun S
Date Deposited:	20 May 2020 09:42
Last Modified:	20 May 2020 09:42
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/11512
Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104729
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	CGIAR Research Programs on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), CGIAR Research Programs on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC)
Acknowledgement:	The authors thank Elias K. Patan, Marta Monjardino, and Arvind K. Padhee for their useful inputs to the paper. The funding from the CGIAR Research Programs on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), and Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals (GLDC) through CGIAR Fund Donors and bilateral funding agreements is thankfully acknowledged. The authors would like to thanks two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their helpful comments and suggestions.
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