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Journal of Earth Science & Climatic Change
Climate Congress 2018
August 06-07, 2018
August 06-07, 2018 Osaka, Japan
4
th
World Congress on
Climate Change and Global Warming
Impact and social vulnerability among farmers to climate change: Evidence from coastal Odisha,
India
Sahoo Dibakar and Sridevi G
School of Economics-University of Hyderabad, India
T
he study attempts to understand the rationale behind why (or how) different groups of farmers within a community
are disproportionately vulnerable (or impacted) by climatic change and variability. Primary data were collected using
structured household interview schedule from a random sample of 310 males headed farm households across four categories
of farmers such as marginal (≤2.50 acres of land), small (2.51-5.00), medium (5.01-10.00) and large (>10.00) in Chamakhandi
and Mandipalli villages of Gajam district, Odisha. Indexing approach and focused group discussions are applied to understand
the social vulnerability of different farm groups which comprises of geographical, economic and social factors respectively.
The impact assessment results suggested that the productions of cereal crops (paddy and wheat), pulses crops (green gram
and black gram) and oilseeds across different groups of farmers have been negatively affected due to climate change and
variability in Mandiapalli village, whereas it has the similar impact except for the production of black gram and oilseeds in
case of the marginal farmers in Chamakhandi village. Whereas, the medium and large farmers, on the average, confronted
the greater reduction in cereal and pulses incomes compared to the marginal and small farmers in both study areas. In sharp
contrast to these findings, the marginal and small farmers are socially more vulnerable to climate change than the medium and
large farmers. This is attributed to the fact that the marginal and small farmers performed are abysmally on the geographical
indicator (educational level), economic indicators (diversified sources of income, access to formal credit, percent of households
having debt, changing paddy crop varieties, using early-maturing varieties of paddy and crop insurance) and social indicators
(membership in community-level decision-making, farmer-based organization and political organization) as compared to the
medium and large farmers.
dibakarresearch3@gmail.comJ Earth Sci Clim Change 2018, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C3-046