<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Global Climate Change Agenda and Processes: Scouting for Traditional Grassroot Adaptation Strategies in Arid and Semi-Arid Agriculture of India. Working Paper Series No. 46"^^ . "The paper attempts to explore how a global Climate Change agenda and processes (covering\r\nconcerns, debates, negotiations, research-based projections, impacts and actions broadly\r\ncollectively termed as “global discourse” in this paper), can help enhance the farmers’\r\nadaptations against impacts of climate change in arid and semi-arid regions of India, which is\r\npotentially more vulnerable to climate change.\r\nAfter a brief introduction to these dryland agricultural regions, the paper looks at the main\r\nthrusts of largely macro level focused global discourse on climate change. This is followed by\r\na discussion on relevant features of farmers’ traditional adaptation strategies against climatic\r\nvariability in the above-mentioned regions captured through longitudinal village level studies by\r\nICRISAT, and supplemented by other studies focused on farmer responses to weather induced\r\nrisks. Based on the above, we look at the extent of match or mismatch between the two to\r\nidentify the limitations and potential of the macro-level global discourse on climate change, for\r\nenhancing farmers’ adaptation strategies against the negative impacts of climate change.\r\nInformation on mainstream global discourse is picked up from a variety of reviews and critiques\r\nof the specific components of global discourse on climate change. The information on farmers’\r\nadaptation strategies is provided by a number of studies on farmers’ vulnerability and risk\r\nmanagement conducted during the last thirty years in different parts of arid and semi-arid areas\r\nin India.\r\nThe important concerns about usability of global discourse relate to highly aggregative and\r\nmacro level focused information, projections, modeled scenarios, etc, along with their current\r\ninformation gaps and uncertainties. Consequently, they do not offer apparent concrete contexts\r\nat micro levels to which dryland farmers respond by way of adaptation measures. Besides, the\r\nglobal discourse largely focus on mitigation as against adaptation to climate change, which\r\ndoes not help dryland farmers’ adaptations to climate change. Finally, the farmers’ adaptationresponses\r\nare not directed exclusively to weather induced risks and uncertainties, but they\r\naddress the other sources of risks such as market and other calamities. Since the global\r\ndiscourse on climate change has highly skewed perspectives (reflected by its focus mainly on\r\nclimate change with little attention to other linked global changes), it may not offer inspiring\r\nlead lines, even in the perspective sense to dryland farmers to evolve holistic coping strategies\r\nagainst risks.\r\nBased on the evidence and understanding of farmers’ traditional and present adaptation\r\nstrategies against weather variability, the paper attempts to explore some indicative possibilities\r\nto benefit from macro level global discourse on climate change. They include the indicative\r\napproaches to harmonize the elements of traditional adaptation approaches and potential field\r\noriented (micro level focused) new approaches guided by imperatives of climate change, using\r\nnew technological and institutional options. Their involved facilitative interventions, however,\r\nare largely product policy programs initiated and promoted by the governments. In some way,\r\none of the most significant contributions of global discourse on climate change is generating\r\ninformation and concerns of policy makers about potential risks created by climate change and\r\nneed for promoting measures against them including the above-mentioned interventions, which\r\n2\r\nultimately help in making development steps climate sensitive. However, promotion of such\r\nsteps will be greatly facilitated if some downscaling of current global approaches, by way of\r\nfocusing on regional and local/landscape situations, is promoted."^^ . "2013" . . . "International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "N P"^^ . "Singh"^^ . "N P Singh"^^ . . "K."^^ . "Byjesh"^^ . "K. Byjesh"^^ . . "M C S"^^ . "Bantilan"^^ . "M C S Bantilan"^^ . . "N S"^^ . "Jodha"^^ . "N S Jodha"^^ . . . . . . 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