Impact of Climate Variation on Agricultural Productivity and Food Security in Rural India
Ajay Kumar,Pritee Sharma +1 more
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In this paper , the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity in quantity terms, value of production in monetary terms and food security in India was analyzed. But, the authors did not consider the effect of weather conditions on food grain and non-food grain productivity.Abstract:
This research paper analyzes the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity in quantity terms, value of production in monetary terms and food security in India. The study undertook state wise analysis based on secondary data for the duration of 1980 to 2009. Climate variation affects food grain and non-food grain productivity and both these factors along with other socioeconomic and government policy variables affect food security. Food security and poverty are interlinked with each other as cause and effect and vice versa, particularly, for a largely agrarian economy of India. Regression results for models proposed in this study show that for most of the food grain crops, non-food grain crops in quantity produced per unit of land and in terms of value of production climate variation cause negative impact. The adverse impact of climate change on the value of agricultural production and food grains indicates food security threat to small and marginal farming households. The state wise food security index was also generated in this study; and econometric model estimation reveals that the food security index itself also gets adversely affected due to climatic fluctuations.read more
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Linking Food Security with Household’s Adaptive Capacity and Drought Risk: Implications for Sustainable Rural Development
Anu Susan Sam,Azhar Abbas,Subash Surendran Padmaja,Harald Kaechele,Ranjit Kumar,Ranjit Kumar,Klaus Müller +6 more
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Investigating the linkage between climate variables and food security in ESA countries
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Farm income, inequality, and poverty among farm families of a flood-prone area in Bangladesh: climate change vulnerability assessment
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Influence of climatic and non-climatic factors on sustainable food security in India: a statistical investigation
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Dissertation
The determinants of food security status among indigent rural households in the Isikelo community of the Mbizana local municipality, Eatern Cape Province
TL;DR: A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Commerce, Administration and Law in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Commerce in Economics in the Department of Economics at the University Of Zululand, 2018 as discussed by the authors.
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Gender and Poverty
Jane Millar,Caroline Glendinning +1 more
Abstract: A recent edition of this Journal (Volume 16, Part 2, April 1987) was devoted to a number of articles on the definition and measurement of poverty. Surprisingly, perhaps, this did not include any specific discussion of gender differences in the causes, extent and experience of poverty. But such gender differences do exist, though they are often obscured by much research on poverty. Our initial response to the special edition on poverty was to write a reply discussing how the various contributors had ignored the issue of gender. But women cannot simply be ‘added in’ to existing analyses; instead a different analytic framework is required. This article therefore begins by looking at some of the widespread evidence of the economic disadvantage of women compared with men. We then go on to discuss why it is necessary to focus on the gender dimensions of poverty. We argue that this involves far more than simply disaggregating data to produce statistics about the situation of women. Rather, this focus leads us to explore the structural causes of women's poverty and the gendered processes in the labour market, welfare systems and domestic household which interact to create and maintain that disadvantage. In the final section we consider some of the important conceptual and methodological issues which must be tackled if we are to find ways to investigate and measure poverty which are not gender-blind.
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