DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2016.11.002
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85008190917
论文题名: Knowledge and passive adaptation to climate change: An example from Indian farmers
作者: Tripathi A. ; Mishra A.K.
刊名: Climate Risk Management
ISSN: 22120963
出版年: 2017
卷: 16 起始页码: 195
结束页码: 207
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Adaptation
; Agriculture
; Climate change
; Climate information service
; Farmers
; India
英文摘要: This study is an attempt to use group information collected on climate change from farmers in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India to address a key question related to climate change policy: How to encourage farmers to adapt to climate change? First, we investigate farmers’ perception of and adaptation to climate change using content analysis and group information. The findings are then compared with climatic and agriculture information collected through secondary sources. Results suggest that though farmers are aware of long-term changes in climatic factors (temperature and rainfall, for example), they are unable to identify these changes as climate change. Farmers are also aware of risks generated by climate variability and extreme climatic events. However, farmers are not taking concrete steps in dealing with perceived climatic changes, although we find out that farmers are changing their agricultural and farming practices. These included changing sowing and harvesting timing, cultivation of crops of short duration varieties, inter-cropping, changing cropping pattern, investment in irrigation, and agroforestry. Note that these changes may be considered as passive response or adaptation strategies to climate change. Perhaps farmers are implicitly taking initiatives to adapt climate change. Finally, the paper suggests some policy interventions to scale up adaptation to climate change in Indian agriculture. © 2016 The Authors Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/58967
Appears in Collections: 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi EnclaveDelhi, India; Morrison School of Agribusiness, Arizona State University, W.P. Carey School of Business, 235M Santan Hall, 7231 E Sonoran Arroyo Mall, Mesa, AZ, United States
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Tripathi A.,Mishra A.K.. Knowledge and passive adaptation to climate change: An example from Indian farmers[J]. Climate Risk Management,2017-01-01,16