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1 Abhishek; Bhamoriya, V.; Gupta, P.; Kaushik, M.; Kishore, A.; Kumar, R.; Sharma, A.; Verma, S. 2020. India’s food system in the time of COVID-19. Economic and Political Weekly, 55(15):12-14.
Food systems ; Food supply chains ; Coronavirus disease ; Financial situation ; Markets ; Economic aspects ; Labour / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049665)
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India’s complete lockdown has caused unnecessary disruptions in the food supply chain, with the scarcity of labour making it even worse. A sharp decline in demand is imminent with the fi nancial sector being in a freeze and incomes having shrunk for everyone, except for the small salaried class. Consumer sentiment and business outlook on recovery are bleak. While ensuring the free movement of essential goods and availability and safety of labour can mitigate the immediate disruptions in the supply chain, unclogging the financial sector and restoring optimism in the market will take time and heroic efforts from the government.
2 Prasad, P.; Gupta, P.; Belsare, H.; Mahendra, C. M.; Bhopale, M.; Deshmukh, S.; Sohoni, M. 2023. Mapping farmer vulnerability to target interventions for climate-resilient agriculture: science in practice. Water Policy, wp2023036. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wp.2023.036]
Climate resilience ; Farmers ; Vulnerability ; Crop water use ; Soybeans ; Water stress ; Soil moisture ; Transdisciplinary research ; Protective irrigation ; Villages ; Policies ; Evapotranspiration ; Water balance ; Irrigation ; Soil texture ; Models ; Climate change / India / Maharashtra / Adgaon / Yavatmal / Mangrul / Nanded
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052114)
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H052114.pdf
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Farmers in dryland regions are highly vulnerable to rainfall variability. This vulnerability is unequal, as it is mediated by biophysical and social factors. Implementing policies for climate resilience requires identification of farmers who are most vulnerable to extreme events like dry spells. We develop a novel approach by conceptualizing dry spell vulnerability at the farm scale in terms of monsoon crop water deficit. Using inputs of weather, terrain, soil properties, land-use-land-cover, crop properties, and cadastral maps, our tool models an hourly soil water balance at 30 m × 30 m resolution and maps the crop water deficit under rainfed conditions. This is a good indicator of the relative sensitivity of farmers to dry spells and allows prioritization of interventions within the focus region. Our tool, developed and deployed within the Maharashtra State Project on Climate-Resilient Agriculture, is iteratively calibrated and refined. We present the result of one such iteration where 72% of cases were found to have an agreement between the modelled output and farmers' perception of dry spell-induced crop water stress. Our work demonstrates how vulnerability to climate hazards may be mapped at micro-scales to assist policy makers in targeting interventions in ecologically fragile regions with high rainfall variability.
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