Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Taraz, Vis

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.08.006

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“…Global heating puts large parts of the Indian population at risk, especially people in low-lying, densely populated coastal regions and islands ( Kumar et al, 2006 ), in cities and at industrial sites, already contaminated by particulate air pollution ( Khosla and Bhardwaj, 2019 ; Revi, 2008 ; Guttikunda and Goel, 2013 ). Agriculture, on which the country heavily relies, is expected to experience devastating impacts ( Kumar et al, 2001 ; O'Brien et al, 2004 ; Rama Rao et al, 2016 ; Zaveri et al, 2016 ; Taraz, 2018 ). Based on their income, 70–80% of India's population can be classified as poor, living in households with less than Rs 5000 monthly income or subsisting on less than 3 USD per day.…”

Section: India's Contested Coal Complexmentioning

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Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

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Schaffartzik

2021

Ecological Economics

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Coal is on the rise in India: despite the devasting impacts of the climate crisis, the awareness for land and forest rights, and political talk of a coal phase-out. In this article, we demonstrate that despite the renewables-led rhetoric, India is in the midst of a transition to (not away from) greater use of coal in its fossil energy system and in the electricity system in particular. We investigate this paradox by combining socio-metabolic and political-ecological analysis of the Indian coal complex. Our framework integrates material and energy flow data as characterizing the Indian fossil energy transition, indicators on the development and structure of the coal industry, and studies of ecological distribution conflicts around coal. The dominant claim to expansive use of coal and the competing counterclaims are indicative of underlying power relations which can also be witnessed in other countries. In India, they extend into the conflicted development of renewable energy including hydropower, in which the land dispossession, exclusion, and injustices associated with the expansion of the coal complex are reproduced. We conclude that the current energy transition – in which coal continues to play a dominant role – is neither sustainable nor just.

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Section: India's Contested Coal Complexmentioning

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Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

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Schaffartzik

2021

Ecological Economics

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“…Extreme heat remains especially detrimental to wheat production 5–7 . Prior work has shown that temperature increases due to climate change can reduce global wheat yields by up to 30 percent by mid-century 8,9 .…”

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The role of irrigation in changing wheat yields and heat sensitivity in India

2019

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Irrigation has been pivotal in wheat’s rise as a major crop in India and is likely to be increasingly important as an adaptation response to climate change. Here we use historical data across 40 years to quantify the contribution of irrigation to wheat yield increases and the extent to which irrigation reduces sensitivity to heat. We estimate that national yields in the 2000s are 13% higher than they would have been without irrigation trends since 1970. Moreover, irrigated wheat exhibits roughly one-quarter of the heat sensitivity estimated for fully rainfed conditions. However, yield gains from irrigation expansion have slowed in recent years and negative impacts of warming have continued to accrue despite lower heat sensitivity from the widespread expansion of irrigation. We conclude that as constraints on expanding irrigation become more binding, furthering yield gains in the face of additional warming is likely to present an increasingly difficult challenge.

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“…In this paper, we study the relationship between two important adaptation mechanisms used by rural households in India: irrigation; and short‐term migration. Irrigation is one of the most important adaptation methods used by farmers in response to risks associated with rainfall variability with groundwater providing the most reliable source of water (Fishman ; Taraz ). In India, approximately 90 million households utilise some form of groundwater during critical periods of crop growth (Sekhri ).…”

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The impact of water access on short‐term migration in rural India

Zaveri

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Fisher‐Vanden

2020

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Migration is an important risk‐reduction strategy for households in developing countries. In this paper, we examine the impact of rainfall variability and irrigation availability on short‐term migration decisions in India. Our results show that both rainfall shocks and the availability of irrigation impact the decisions of households to dispatch migrants. For irrigation, we find that migration responds to costs and that deep fossil‐water wells, which provide a constant source of water, eliminate any benefit of short‐term migration. This suggests that regions with access to more secure and stable sources of water are less likely to rely on migration as an income‐smoothing mechanism, at least in the short run. Whether this holds in the long run will depend on the continued stability and availability of irrigation water.

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Can farmers adapt to higher temperatures? Evidence from India

Cited by 73 publications

References 84 publications

Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

The role of irrigation in changing wheat yields and heat sensitivity in India

The impact of water access on short‐term migration in rural India

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