Using Climate Information for Building Smallholder Resilience in India

Manjula, Madhavan; Rengalakshmi, Raj; Devaraj, M

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-0680-9_18

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“…Finally, it is recognised that an emphasis on reporting the short-term benefits of WCS may partly be due to a lack of WCS that uses extended range forecasts in the region, although efforts are underway to create seamless forecasts that combine short-, medium-and extended-range data (Webster 2013;Manjula et al 2022). To ensure long-term resilience to climate risks and to avoid maladaptation, evaluators could also adopt an approach that recognises long-term resilience will only be achieved by considering how information is used at different temporal and spatial scales.…”

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Evaluating the benefits of weather and climate services in South Asia: a systematic review

Suckall

2022

Reg Environ Change

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The use of scientific information about future weather and climate offers enormous potential for society to better manage the risks associated with climate variability and change. There has been significant investment in weather and climate services (WCS) over the past years; however, empirically based evidence of the socio-economic benefits of such services is very limited. Understanding and capturing the real benefits of WCS as they unfold on the ground are key to ensure continue investment in WCS as well as to enable adaptive management. In this paper, we conduct a review of the literature of WCS evaluations in South Asia. We systematically document and analyse empirical evidence as reported in the academic and grey literature to highlight (1) the scale and scope of WCS that have been evaluated in the region; (2) the methodological approaches that have been used to monitor and evaluate the benefits of WCS initiatives on the ground and (3) the socio-economic benefits of WCS categorised under a triple bottom line approach that takes into consideration economic, social and environmental benefits. The paper explores these findings and highlights key areas that warrant further discussion and research. These include a limited effort to systematically record and document the benefits of WCS and an over-emphasis on capturing evidence of short-term economic benefits at the expense of long-term economic benefits, as well as social and environmental benefits. We conclude this paper with a call for increased cooperation between meteorologists, economists and social researchers to develop empirical case studies of benefits and trade-offs as they occur on the ground.

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Section: Over Emphasis On Short-term Economic Benefitsmentioning

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Evaluating the benefits of weather and climate services in South Asia: a systematic review

Suckall

2022

Reg Environ Change

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Resilience Through Crop Diversification in Pakistan

Nazir

Lohano

2021

Climate Change and Community Resilience

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Climate change-induced variability in rainfall patterns and temperature has caused significant losses to the agriculture sector in Pakistan. Crop diversification is recognized as an effective risk management strategy for farmers to cope with climate-related risks and is therefore a potentially sustainable community-based solution for enhancing community resilience to climate change. This chapter examines how past exposure to extreme weather events, risk attitude, and other communityand farm characteristics affect the farmer’s decision of crop diversification. Using farm-level data from 480 farmers in Sindh province of Pakistan, the study examines the determinants of crop diversification decisions. The results show that previous exposure to flood or excessive rainfall in the community, farm size, and farmer’s risk attitude significantly affect crop diversification. Furthermore, location-specific factors account for differences in local climatic and agro-ecological conditions and significantly determine the extent of crop diversification.

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Communities, Climate Change Adaptation and Win–Win Solutions

Haque

Mukhopadhyay

Nepal

et al. 2021

Climate Change and Community Resilience

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Engaging with communities at the grassroots level and empowering local institutions are critical for building resilient communities in South Asia in the context of numerous vulnerabilities created by climate change. This chapter summarises the key lessons that document how communities are adapting by reinventing traditional practices, adopting new technologies, or building human and social capital. These lessons are important because they provide pathways for others to learn from and for policies and practices to evolve to build resilience among vulnerable populations. Local adaptation by communities also helps meet the larger sustainable development challenges of the region.

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Using Climate Information for Building Smallholder Resilience in India

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Evaluating the benefits of weather and climate services in South Asia: a systematic review

Evaluating the benefits of weather and climate services in South Asia: a systematic review

Resilience Through Crop Diversification in Pakistan

Communities, Climate Change Adaptation and Win–Win Solutions

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