Climate variability and climate change: implications for chronic poverty
This working paper identifies the current coping strategies for climate variability by the chronically poor in India and highlights some of the barriers to and opportunities for successful adaptation. The author follows the principles of the ‘bottom-up’ approach to adaptation where the starting point for action is the analysis of present vulnerability and not predictions of future scenarios.
This paper describes in more detail existing responses to climate variability that could be improved, such as livelihood diversification through migration, employment generated by the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and the potential to improve agriculture.