How to Encourage Farmers to Adapt to Climate Change?

Amarnath Tripathi ()
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Amarnath Tripathi: Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

No 369, IEG Working Papers from Institute of Economic Growth

Abstract: This study is an attempt to use group information collected from different farmers (e.g. marginal, small, and medium farmers and tenants) in eastern Uttar Pradesh in India to address a question relevant to climate policy: How to encourage farmers to adapt to climate change? First, group information collected on farmers' perception of and adaptation to climate change was analysed using content analysis. Then, the findings were compared with climatic and agriculture information collected from secondary sources. The results suggest that though farmers are aware of long-term changes in climatic factors, they are unable to identify these changes as climate change. Farmers are also aware of risks generated by climate variability and extreme climate events. Despite perceiving changes in climate factors, farmers are doing nothing to deal with these changes. But they are changing their agriculture and farming practices to deal with socioeconomic changes, and some of these changes (e.g. changing sowing and harvesting timing, cultivation of crops of short maturity period, inter-cropping, changing cropping pattern, investment in irrigation, and agroforestry) help in adapting agriculture to climate change. So, it may be concluded that farmers are implicitly taking initiatives to adapt climate change. Finally, the paper suggests some policy interventions to scale up adaptation to climate change in agriculture.

Keywords: Climate change adaptation; farmers; climate information service; agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2016
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Published as Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, 2016, pages 1-29

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