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  Farmer typology to understand differentiated climate change adaptation in Himalaya

Shukla, R., Agarwal, A., Gornott, C., Sachdeva, K., Joshi, P. K. (2019): Farmer typology to understand differentiated climate change adaptation in Himalaya. - Scientific Reports, 9, 20375.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56931-9

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Shukla, Roopam1, Author              
Agarwal, Ankit1, Author              
Gornott, Christoph1, Author              
Sachdeva, K.2, Author
Joshi, P. K.2, Author
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 Abstract: Smallholder farmers’ responses to the climate-induced agricultural changes are not uniform but rather diverse, as response adaptation strategies are embedded in the heterogonous agronomic, social, economic, and institutional conditions. There is an urgent need to understand the diversity within the farming households, identify the main drivers and understand its relationship with household adaptation strategies. Typology construction provides an efficient method to understand farmer diversity by delineating groups with common characteristics. In the present study, based in the Uttarakhand state of Indian Western Himalayas, five farmer types were identified on the basis of resource endowment and agriculture orientation characteristics. Factor analysis followed by sequential agglomerative hierarchial and K-means clustering was use to delineate farmer types. Examination of adaptation strategies across the identified farmer types revealed that mostly contrasting and type-specific bundle of strategies are adopted by farmers to ensure livelihood security. Our findings show that strategies that incurred high investment, such as infrastructural development, are limited to high resource-endowed farmers. In contrast, the low resourced farmers reported being progressively disengaging with farming as a livelihood option. Our results suggest that the proponents of effective adaptation policies in the Himalayan region need to be cognizant of the nuances within the farming communities to capture the diverse and multiple adaptation needs and constraints of the farming households.

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 Dates: 2019
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56931-9
PIKDOMAIN: RD2 - Climate Resilience
PIKDOMAIN: RD4 - Complexity Science
eDoc: 8730
Research topic keyword: Adaptation
Research topic keyword: Food & Agriculture
Research topic keyword: Inequality and Equity
Model / method: Qualitative Methods
Regional keyword: Asia
Organisational keyword: RD2 - Climate Resilience
Organisational keyword: RD4 - Complexity Science
Working Group: Adaptation in Agricultural Systems
Working Group: Development of advanced time series analysis techniques
Working Group: Network- and machine-learning-based prediction of extreme events
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