Evaluating the determinants of perceived drought resilience: An empirical analysis of farmers' survival capabilities in drought-prone regions of South India
Abstract
Global climate change is contributing to more frequent and more intense droughts. Several studies point to the disastrous consequences of prolonged droughts on farming. Developing countries, such as India, are particularly vulnerable to climate change and within such economies, the farming communities in rainfed regions are especially vulnerable to prolonged droughts. In such conditions, the threat of repeated droughts poses significant challenges to farmers’ survival capabilities. This is underlined by the increasing incidence of suicide by farmers in rural India - the number of suicides between 2001and 2005 was a little less than 100,000
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of Publication
2015
Location of the Work
Amsterdam
Publisher
Elsevier
School
School of Business and Law
RAS ID
19078
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Comments
Ranjan, R., Pradhan, D., Reddy, R., & Syme, G. (2015). Evaluating the determinants of perceived drought resilience: An empirical analysis of farmers' survival capabilities in drought-prone regions of South India. In V.R. Reddy & G. Syme (Eds.), Integrated Assessment of Scale Impacts of Watershed Intervention: Assessing Hydrological and Bio-physical Influences on Livelihoods (pp. 253-287). Available http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780128000670. Available here.