Farm level adaptation strategies to climate change in India: An overview

Abstract

Climate change is the most intricate environmental problem faced by the world today. Agriculture sector is vulnerable to climate change due to its immense dependence on climate. Therefore, implementing adaptation strategies by farmer becomes indispensable in order to minimize the effects of climate change. From this review, it is concluded that farmers have been adapting to the impacts of climate change in their own ways. Different methods are being used by farmers; the major ones include the use of different crop varieties, shifting cropping patterns, delayed sowing etc. It was observed that high cost of adaptation, limited knowledge on adaptation measures and lack of improved technology were found to be the major hindrance towards adapting to climate change. Therefore it is recommended that timely information dispersion should be done about early warnings of climate change and also awareness campaigns and trainings must be organised to enhance the farmers’ adaptive capacity.