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Assessment of risk premium in farm technology adoption as a climate change adaptation strategy in the dryland systems of India
Purpose: Changing climate has increasingly become a challenge for smallholder farmers.
Identification of technical, institutional and policy interventions as coping and adaptation
strategies, and exploring risks of their ...
Mapping of household vulnerability and identification of adaptation strategies in dryland systems of South Asia
Low amount and high variability of rainfall in South Asian dryland production system have
affected the livelihood of small and marginal households. Therefore, a marginal change in the
climate could challenge the livelihood ...
Capacity building on drip irrigation system in dryland system
Development of awareness on irrigation scheudling and fertigation, maintenacne of the system for both male and female farmers.
Weather index insurance for livestock fodder in dryland system
Risk aversion for farmers from vageries of weather
Quantification of Risk Associated with Technology Adoption in Dryland Systems of South Asia
Climate change increasingly becomes a challenge for smallholder farmers. Strategies that will
help farmers to cope with vulnerability are important. These strategies comprise a variety of
interventions ranging from technical, ...
Economics of new energy efficient methods with micro irrigation in dyrland system
The quantitative significance of the dryland agriculture is by no means small, even at their low
productivity levels (Shah et al., 1998). The drylands accounts for 53% of total cropped area,
48% of the area under food crops ...
Empirical evaluation of sustainability of divergent farms in the dryland farming systems of India
The present study argues that there are heterogeneous farm systems within the drylands and each farm
system is unique in terms of its livelihood asset and agricultural practice, and therefore in sustainability.
Our method ...
Report on “Implementation of micro irrigation system in dryland system”: June 2015
The report is on the status of implementation on micro irrigation for efficient resource use
Participatory Research for Development of Sustainable Water Management Practices
Manual on Micro Irrigation for Capacity Building and Development for Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka Action sites.
Climate Change, Gender and Adaptation Strategies in Dryland Systems of South Asia
There is a blossoming literature on gender and climate change issues broadly focused on the
adverse effects of climate condition. These studies are mostly focused on gender inequalities in
agrarian communities of developing ...