Do the poor have what they need to adapt to climate change? A case study of Nepal

Dulal, Hari Bansha; Brodnig, Gernot; Thakur, Hemanta Kumar; Green-Onoriose, Charity

doi:10.1080/13549839.2010.498814

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“…Among others studies related to agriculture of Nepal under global warming [44,45], Dulal et al [39] used data collected through survey interviews to infer the ability of the poor to adapt to climate change. They focused on the area of Koshi Tappu river floodplain, in the Southernmost part of Nepal, where they carried out repeated interviews find out how recurring extreme climatic events (e.g.…”

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“…[4,31]. Nepal's varied topography and social vulnerability make the country particularly susceptible to climate variations [24,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38], and the country has low adaptive capacity to respond to crop variability under climate change [39]. The effect of recent climate change in Nepal includes rapid temperature increase [3,34,40], erratic rainfall pattern, decreased length of winter, and increased frequency and length of droughts [41].…”

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Agriculture and Food Security under Climate Change in Nepal

Bocchiola¹

2017

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Agriculture and Food Security under Climate Change in Nepal

Bocchiola¹

2017

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“…(Becken et al 2013;Jones and Boyd 2011). 3) Targeted economic investment especially for: community water infrastructure (Su et al 2012); cooperatives with market chains for village-produced products (Piya et al 2013); household-scale investment in solar energy (Fang and Wei 2013); carbon finance programs for farmers and herders (Xu et al 2006); and climate-risk insurance and microfinance to help the poor gain access to capital (Dulal 2010). 4) Improved disaster planning that links risk management with local natural resource use (Nizami and Robledo 2010;Schipper 2009).…”

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Integrating local hybrid knowledge and state support for climate change adaptation in the Asian Highlands

Grumbine

2014

Climatic Change

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New hybrid forms of climate change adaptation combining local and nonlocal/ scientific knowledge are emerging across the Asian Highlands region. Yet, while local adaptive capacity can be based on place-based knowledge that governments often lack, communities still need assistance from states to better adjust to climate change and socioeconomic impacts. Using a regional literature review, we evaluate the role of evolving hybrid forms of adaptive knowledge for coping with environmental and social change. The literature is clear that appreciating local knowledge is not enough; enfranchising people with representative decision-making and resource rights and responsibilities is also required so that people can employ that knowledge toward climate adaptation. Into the future, Asian Highland climate change actions must include more targeted state support for locally evolving hybrid knowledge, behaviors and institutions.

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“…Developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change since majority of the populations depend on agriculture and lacks technical and financial capability to respond to increased variability [1,6,7]. In addition, the agricultural sector is not only vulnerable to climate change but also has been stressed with the chronic problems of low returns from agricultural exports in developing countries [4,8,9].…”

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“…In addition, the agricultural sector is not only vulnerable to climate change but also has been stressed with the chronic problems of low returns from agricultural exports in developing countries [4,8,9]. In recent years, climate change has been a topic of discussion in Nepal due to its increasing stress on water resources and other climate-sensitive resources thereby affecting agricultural production, food security and livelihood [3,5,7,10].…”

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An Overview of Climate Change And Its Impact on Agriculture: a Review From Least Developing Country, Nepal

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Gurung²

2012

IJE

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Climate is an important factor for agricultural production. However, in recent years consistent warming and rise in global temperature has resulted in visible impacts on the agriculture across the world. Nepal is not an exceptional case, where rising temperature has already affected the country's agricultural production thereby affecting the food security and agrarian communities. It is expected that the level of vulnerability will be higher in high altitude as compared to the lower altitude. In addition, majority of the population are subsistence farmer in rural parts of Nepal and has low land holding capacity. Nepal is one of the least developed countries in the world with low per capita income, and thus the country's ability to adapt to the extreme climatic events has direct implications in its strategies on agriculture sector development. However, Nepal still lack strong scientific data about the cases of climate change and due to varied geographical setting, sufficient meteorological data cannot be easily obtained from remote parts of the country. This review tries to explore the current status of vulnerability to the climate change in Nepal. In Nepal, more than 80% of the people heavily rely on agriculture for their subsistence and thus, climate change will bring expectedly negative response to the agricultural sector in the country.

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Do the poor have what they need to adapt to climate change? A case study of Nepal

Cited by 49 publications

References 21 publications

Agriculture and Food Security under Climate Change in Nepal

Agriculture and Food Security under Climate Change in Nepal

Integrating local hybrid knowledge and state support for climate change adaptation in the Asian Highlands

An Overview of Climate Change And Its Impact on Agriculture: a Review From Least Developing Country, Nepal

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