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Climate Change Vulnerability in Agriculture Sector: Indexing and Mapping of Four Southern Indian States
Agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to climate change due to its high dependence on climate and weather conditions. Climate change is a main challenge for agriculture, food security and rural livelihoods for millions of people in India. Among India’s population of more than one billion people,...
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| Sumari: | Agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to climate change due to its high dependence on
climate and weather conditions. Climate change is a main challenge for agriculture, food
security and rural livelihoods for millions of people in India. Among India’s population
of more than one billion people, about 68% are directly or indirectly involved in the
agricultural sector. This sector is particularly vulnerable to present-day climate
variability. In this paper an attempt is made to map and analyze the vulnerability to
climate change in different districts of four south Indian states: Andhra Pradesh,
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. We have taken five sources of vulnerability
indicators: socio-demographic, climatic, agricultural, occupational and common
property resources vulnerabilities to compute the composite vulnerability index. The
composite vulnerability index suggests that, Adilabad, Chamarajanagar, Thiruvarur and
Kasaragod are the most vulnerable districts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu
and Kerala respectively, whereas Hyderabad, Belgaum, Thoothukkudi, Kottayam are the
least vulnerable districts. |
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