Farmers' resilience index: a tool to metricize the resilience of the farmers towards natural disasters affecting agriculture in India

IF 1.5 4区环境科学与生态学 Q4 WATER RESOURCES

Water Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI:10.2166/wp.2023.152

Sandipamu Raahalya, P. Balasubramaniam, M. N. Devi, N. Maragatham, R. Selvi

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Abstract

In the present paper farmers' resilience index (FRI) was constructed considering the natural disaster using five dimensions including physical, social, economic, human and natural. the scale is administered to the 240 paddy farmers in two coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh. Principal component analysis was performed in order to fix the weightage for each variable. About (39.58%) of farmers are resilient to natural disasters with the highest resilience score for financial capital (0.641) and natural capital with less resilience score (0.401). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to determine how well the generated model of the scale fits the data. The structural equation modelling (SEM) path diagram was developed based on the conceptual model, which uses resilience as a latent variable. The SEM analysis revealed that four dimensions of capital positively affect farmers' resilience except for the human capital which negatively affects resilience. To reduce the effects of natural catastrophes in the upcoming years, the adaptation strategies from the highly resilient places can be examined and put into practice in the less resilient areas. It is imperative that development programmes at all levels incorporate climate awareness and stakeholder capacity building.

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农民复原力指数：衡量印度农民对影响农业的自然灾害的复原力的工具

本文考虑到自然灾害，从物质、社会、经济、人文和自然五个维度构建了农民复原力指数（FRI）。为了确定每个变量的权重，进行了主成分分析。约（39.58%）的农民具有抵御自然灾害的能力，其中金融资本的抵御能力得分最高（0.641），自然资本的抵御能力得分较低（0.401）。确认性因子分析（CFA）以确定生成的量表模型与数据的拟合程度。在概念模型的基础上建立了结构方程模型（SEM）路径图，将复原力作为潜变量。SEM 分析表明，除人力资本对抗灾能力有负面影响外，其他四个资本维度均对农民的抗灾能力产生积极影响。为了减少自然灾害在未来几年的影响，可以研究抗灾能力强的地区的适应战略，并在抗灾能力较弱的地区加以实施。当务之急是在各级发展计划中纳入气候意识和利益相关者的能力建设。

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6-12 weeks

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