Assessment of livelihood security in disaster prone areas of Uttarakhand
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2018-06
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G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand)
Abstract
Uttarakhand is highly disaster prone state which witnesses earthquake, landslides, cloudburst, flash flooding, substantial rainfall and forest fire relatively consistently. Expanding
event of all these catastrophic events is immensely affecting livelihood security. Therefore the present study was conducted to assess the livelihood security that refers to four subcomponents; viz. food, health, education and income security; focused directly on the constraints to household well-being. A Household Livelihood Security Assessment (HLSA) is
an all encompassing and multi disciplinary approach which perceives that poor families normally endure in excess of one issue at a time and frequently need to make significant sacrifices to meet their essential needs. The purposive and random sampling technique was used to select 110 households located in a disaster prone area. The descriptive research design was selected. The data were collected with the help of precoded interview schedule. To measure livelihood security an index was adapted which identify constraints to households. The HHLS approach allowed a rapid look at actual community livelihood status and this immediate way to deal with respondent’s perception regarding climate change and natural disaster, food sources, water sanitation, health behavior, income generating activities etc. The purpose of the indicator was to provide a clear profile of the constraints to family or household livelihood security. To measure the livelihood security it was found that the food security index was having value 43.61 of the total score, 76.54 was calculated as health security index, nearly 83.63 was the value of education security index and income security index was found low i.e. 15 and by computed all these value the livelihood security index launched value 54.69 which is the indicator of secure livelihood but the only drawback is income insecurity. The index of Zimbabwe Household Livelihood Security Assessment, CARE (2009) by John Mazzeo was adapted for the comparison. The other findings indicate that absence of training programme on management of various households/farming exercises have been pinpointed by the majority of the families. For this, the concerned organizations should approach the bestow preparing on the said perspectives and revise their training course according to the need of the families from time to time. This study suggested that government should cater various plan and policies that may increased livelihood security more better.