Assessing decision-making and economic performance of farmers to manage climate-induced crisis in Coastal Karnataka (India)

作者：Kumar H M Vinaya^*; Shivamurthy M; Gowda V Govinda; Biradar G S

来源：Climatic Change, 2017, 142(1-2): 143-153.

DOI：10.1007/s10584-017-1928-x

In recent years among the scientific community, adverse effects of climate change shifted from being a hypothesis to being a reality. Coastal Karnataka prioritized climate variability as a productivity-reducing factor in agriculture and fishery farming. Prevailing unsatisfactory productive services in the agricultural sector and allied industries resulted in degradation of natural resources at the farm level. The adverse impact of climate change and continued fragmentation of landholding have led to poor socio-economic status leading to high dependency on farm income and productivity. The present study is focusing on understanding the response of farmers on decision-making and economic performance due to climate change through face-to-face interviews. The decision ability of the farmers was significantly better among high-crisis management groups than small and marginal farmers, who are having highly diverse decision-making ability. Consequently, economic performance, the benefit/cost ratio of high crisis management group was greater than that of medium and low crisis management groups. Finally, this research study emphasizes the importance of behavioral responses of the farmers in formulating policies and designing strategies to overcome ill effects of the climate-induced crisis.

• 出版日期2017-5