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A district level assessment of vulnerability of Indian agriculture to climate change

• 25/05/2016
• Current Science

By 2050, India is likely to experience a temperature rise of 1-4°C; rainfall will increase by 9-16 per cent. This will have a detrimental effect on farmers in more than half of the country.

Assessing vulnerability to climate change and variability is an important first step in evolving appropriate adaptation strategies to changing climate. Such an analysis also helps in targeting adaptation investments, specific to more vulnerable regions. Adopting the definition of vulnerability given by IPCC, vulnerability was assessed for 572 rural districts of India.

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• Attachments:
  • vulnerability of agriculture to climate.pdf
• Tags:
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Climate Impacts
  • India
  • Food Security
  • Poverty
  • Rainfall Pattern
  • Monsoons

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