VULNERABILITY OF LIVESTOCK FARMERS TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN TAMIL NADU
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2021
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Climate change is a global phenomenon which affects all livelihood sectors either directly or indirectly. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change defined climate change is any change in climate over a period of time which comes out as the result of both human and natural actions. Vulnerability is an individual or groups reduced capacity to cope with, resist, and recover from the impacts of a climate change. The indicators of vulnerability are exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity of farmers which is used to analyze the livelihood vulnerability level of farmers. Adaptation has the potential to reduce the negative impact and vulnerability of livestock farmers due to changes in climatic conditions. Suitable coping/adaptive mechanism has to be developed to sustain the livestock farmers in farming activities. Hence, location specific study is essential to understand the impact of changing climate on livestock and its adaptation potential.
The districts of Tamil Nadu were classified into low, medium and high category based on livestock population by using cumulative square root frequency method. From each category, two median districts were selected. Thus, six districts were selected for the study area. From each selected district, one taluk with lowest and one taluk with highest livestock population were selected for the study. Livestock farmers with 30 years of experience in livestock rearing were considered as sample frame for the study. From each taluk, 10 livestock farmers were randomly selected, thus a total of 120 livestock farmers constituted the respondents for this study.