TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
A1  - Shalander, K
A1  - Mishra, A K
A1  - Pramanik, S
A1  - Mamidanna, S
A1  - Whitbread, A M
TI  - Climate risk, vulnerability and resilience: Supporting livelihood of smallholders in semiarid India
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104729
JF  - Land Use Policy (TSI)
SN  - 0264-8377
PB  - Elsevier
N1  - 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.
N2  - 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.
KW  - Drought
KW  -  Risk analysis
KW  -  Comparable crop productivity index
KW  - 
Composite vulnerability and resilience index
KW  -  India
KW  -  Smallholder farmers
Y1  - 2020/05//
SP  - 1
ID  - icrisat11512
EP  - 12
VL  - 97
ER  -