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DOI	10.1016/j.crm.2021.100275
	Understanding the vulnerability, farming strategies and development pathways of smallholder farming systems in Telangana, India
	Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao; van Paassen, Annemarie; Oosting, Simon J.
通讯作者	Oosting, SJ (corresponding author), Wageningen Univ & Res, Anim Prod Syst Grp, POB 338, NL-6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands.
来源期刊	CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT
ISSN	2212-0963
出版年	2021
卷号	31
英文摘要	Climate change projections for the 21st century indicate an increase in the already high number of food-insecure people in India. While considerable research on vulnerability to climate change exists, research about Indian smallholder farming systems as a whole, encompassing farming strategies and development pathways in this context, is limited. Hence, the current study examines the vulnerability of three smallholder farming systems, namely, (i) crop without livestock (CWL), (ii) crop with small ruminants (CSR), and (iii) crop with dairy (CD), in the context of climate change in Telangana, India. A mixed methods approach was used to conduct the research with a sample size of ten households per farming system. We found that households of different farming systems faced differential vulnerability due to variation in perceptions of climate change exposures, access to livelihood capitals, and the farming strategies they chose. The CWL households were highly vulnerable to increased maximum temperature and erratic rainfall, while households that farmed both crop and livestock were more vulnerable to overall reduction in precipitation. Decision-making related to farming strategies was a complex process involving several factors, of which the availability of livelihood capitals, provided by government programs, was the foremost. Due to this, households of the different farming systems pursued divergent farming strategies, leading to varying types of adaptation and climate change resilience. Among the three farming systems, the households in the CWL system had the least access to all livelihood capitals and showed the highest vulnerability as their farm strategies only helped to cope with immediate needs. The households in the CD system had access to all critical livelihood capitals, which facilitated opting for sustainable farming strategies. However, as these households were highly dependent on scarce ground water resources for production, their strategies helped only short-term adaption. The households in the CSR system, despite having access to limited capitals, adopted long-term adaptation strategies which is attributed to them being a pastoral ethnic group. Lastly, despite the existence of an integrated climate change policy, state-level development programs continue to focus more on agricultural intensification than on climate change adaptation. This stimulates farming strategies that are lucrative in the short term but endanger farming system resilience to climate change in the long term. We therefore recommend policy makers to give high priority to climate smart development in state development programs, and science-based evaluations of these programs to enable proper climate change adaptation in dryland regions that is inclusive of perspectives of different populations.
英文关键词	Differential vulnerability Farming strategies of smallholders Mixed methods research Adaptation pathways Semi-arid regions
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000621750100007
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/349865
作者单位	[Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao; Oosting, Simon J.] Wageningen Univ & Res, Anim Prod Syst Grp, POB 338, NL-6700 AH Wageningen, Netherlands; [van Paassen, Annemarie] Wageningen Univ & Res, Knowledge Technol & Innovat Grp, POB 8130, NL-6700 EW Wageningen, Netherlands; [Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao] Fdn Ecol Secur, Jahagir Pura Rd, Anand 388110, Gujarat, India
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao,van Paassen, Annemarie,Oosting, Simon J.. Understanding the vulnerability, farming strategies and development pathways of smallholder farming systems in Telangana, India[J],2021,31.
APA	Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao,van Paassen, Annemarie,&Oosting, Simon J..(2021).Understanding the vulnerability, farming strategies and development pathways of smallholder farming systems in Telangana, India.CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT,31.
MLA	Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao,et al."Understanding the vulnerability, farming strategies and development pathways of smallholder farming systems in Telangana, India".CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT 31(2021).