Assessing Perception and Coping Strategies to Changing Climate by Sample Farmers of Northern Dry Zone of Karnataka

Author: Almaszabeen Badekhan* and Mahantesh R. Nayak

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Abstract

Climate change has been the biggest global threat of the 21st century. The climate continues to heat up and its impact grows more severe. Agriculture farmers around the world are increasingly challenged. The human-induced changes in climate are adding pressures on global agricultural and food systems. Changing climate and agriculture are interrelated and it has become a serious threat to Indian agriculture by affecting crop production and livelihood activities. The farmers’ responses to changing climate are often dependent on their perceptions and their coping strategies on climate change. Therefore, it becomes necessary to understand the nature perception and coping strategies that are feasible and practiced at the farm level. Multistage sampling was adopted to select and interview 240 rain-fed farmers of the Northern Dry Zone of Karnataka. The most common perception was the decreased crop yield with a Weighted Average Index (WAI) of 2.85 followed by droughts (WAI=2.77). The relat

Keywords

Coping strategy, Change in climate, Garrett score, Northern dry zone, Perception, WAI.