Livelihood vulnerability approach to assessing climate change impacts on mixed agro-livestock smallholders around the Gandaki River Basin in Nepal
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Article Title | Livelihood vulnerability approach to assessing climate change impacts on mixed agro-livestock smallholders around the Gandaki River Basin in Nepal |
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ERA Journal ID | 36475 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Panthi, Jeeban (Author), Aryal, Suman (Author), Dahal, Piyush (Author), Bhandari, Parashuram (Author), Krakauer, Nir Y. (Author) and Pandey, Vishnu Prasad (Author) |
Journal Title | Regional Environmental Change |
Journal Citation | 16 (4), pp. 1121-1132 |
Number of Pages | 12 |
Year | 2016 |
Place of Publication | Germany |
ISSN | 1436-378X |
1436-3798 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-015-0833-y |
Web Address (URL) | http://link.springer.com/journal/10113/16/4/page/1 |
Abstract | Climate change vulnerability depends upon various factors and differs between places, sectors and communities. People in developing countries whose subsistence livelihood depends mainly upon agriculture and livestock production are identified as particularly vulnerable. Nepal, where the majority of people are in a mixed agro-livestock system, is identified as the world’s fourth most vulnerable country to climate change. However, there is limited knowledge on how vulnerable mixed agro-livestock smallholders are and how their vulnerability differs across different ecological regions in Nepal. This study aims to test two vulnerability assessment indices, livelihood vulnerability index and IPCC vulnerability index, around the Gandaki River Basin of central Nepal. A total of 543 households practicing mixed agro-livestock were surveyed from three districts, namely Dhading, Syangja and Kapilvastu representing three major ecological zones: mountain, mid-hill and Terai (lowland). Data on socio-demographics, livelihood determinants, social networks, health, food and water security, natural disasters and climate variability were collected and combined into the indices. Both indices differed for mixed agro-livestock smallholders across the three districts, with Dhading scoring as the most vulnerable and Syangja the least. Substantial variation across the districts was observed in components, sub-components and three dimensions (exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity) of vulnerability. The findings help in designing site-specific intervention strategies to reduce vulnerability of mixed agro-livestock smallholders to climate change. |
Keywords | climate change, mixed agro-livestock, Nepal, smallholders, vulnerability |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 300399. Animal production not elsewhere classified |
419999. Other environmental sciences not elsewhere classified | |
441002. Environmental sociology | |
410499. Environmental management not elsewhere classified | |
440699. Human geography not elsewhere classified | |
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Byline Affiliations | Small Earth Nepal |
International Centre for Applied Climate Science | |
Tribhuvan University, Nepal | |
City University of New York, United States | |
Asian Institute of Technology and Management, Nepal | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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