TY  - JOUR
AV  - none
N2  - This study undertakes a prioritization of investments for upscaling context-speci?c climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies across several districts in the semi-arid Telangana state of India. We ?rst analysed the trade-o? between expected agricultural income in these districts and deviation from it under drought and normal weather scenarios. We extended the conventional MOTAD model with climate-smart technologies to assess their role in minimizing this trade-o? under various weather scenarios. For our analysis, we relied on a ?ve-year (2010?2011 to 2014?2015), district-level panel dataset on the cost of cultivation and crop production of 11 major crops under six di?erent climate-smart technologies and farmers? traditional practices (FTPs). This dataset included a collation of o?cial statistics on the cost of cultivation, focus group interviews with farmers over the years and data from experimental plots operated by regional agricultural research stations. We found that the adoption of CSA technologies in Telangana, compared to FTPs, led to a 16% reduction in production risk while achieving optimum levels of crop income. Under FTPs, in a scenario of the high probability of drought, the production risk is increased by 12% while the adoption of CSA technologies reduced this risk by 25%. Our study suggests that increasing investments in farm ponds and unpuddled machine transplanting of rice can minimize the risk-return trade-o? in a higher drought frequency scenario. The study ?lls a critical gap by generating evidence, and developing a robust planning tool, for policymakers to make informed decisions on investments in resilience-enhancing CSA.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2118656
SP  - 1
Y1  - 2022/09/08/
EP  - 18
PB  - Taylor & Francis
TI  - Investment planning to minimize climate risk in agricultural production: an optimization model for a semi-arid region in India
ID  - icrisat12009
A1  - Pal, B D
A1  - Shalander, K
A1  - Patan, E K
KW  - Climate-smart agriculture
KW  -  Agriculture technology
KW  -  Investment planning
KW  -  Risk minimization
N1  - The authors thank Pramod K Aggarwal, Pramod K Joshi, Anthony Whitbread and Paresh Shirsath for their inputs; participants of the stakeholders? workshops organized at ICRISAT and EPTRI at Hyderabad, India.
SN  - 1469-3062
JF  - Climate Policy (TSI)
ER  -