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International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
5 Resilience
attributes
Assess the following 16 resilience attributes:1) Reasonable profitability, 2)
Social self-organization, 3) Ecological self-regulation, 4) Appropriate
connectedness, 5) Functional diversity, 6) Optimal redundancy, 7) Spatial &
temporal heterogeneity, 8) Exposure to disturbance, 9) Reflectivity & shared
learning, 10) Human capital building, 11) Diverse policies, 12) Infrastructure &
information for innovation, 13) Support for rural life, 14) Access to credit,
insurance & other financial safety nets, 15) Equity (decision making & power
dynamics), 16) Governance arrangements that support transformation
6 Reflection Discuss and reflect on the accuracy of assessment, the need for additional
resilience building
Conclusion
We find that CRISI’s inclusiveness in identification of stakeholder needs, its systemic
understanding of resilience and provision of information for decision making make it useful
for the farming community, practitioners and policy makers in assessing and building climate
resilience. Application of the CRISI framework shows that agricultural interventions in
semiarid India that primarily focus on improving agriculture productivity and irrigation
infrastructure have a limited influence on the climate resilience. While these are important,
farming systems show much greater climate resilience when interventions are designed to also
address system functions related to the health of ecosystem and social organisation, and general
resilience attributes related to diversity, human capital, and governance. Our findings also urge
policy makers and development organisations to include monitoring, evaluation, learning and
adaptive decision making in future interventions. These findings also resonance with a
pathways approach to building future climate resilience. Co-creating such climate resilient
development pathways, particularly for semiarid farming systems in India, would be a valuable
area for further research.
References
Kuchimanchi, B.R., Nazareth, D., Bendapudi, R., Awasthi, S and D’souza, M. 2019. Assessing
differential vulnerability of communities in the agrarian context in two districts of
Maharashtra, India. Climate and Development, 11, 918-929.
T6-03O-1132
Promoting Water Stewardship for Improving Water Governance in
Groundwater Dependent Regions
Eshwer Kale* and Marcella D’Souza
Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), Pune, Maharashtra 411009, India
*eshwer.kale@wotr.org.in
Groundwater is the backbone of India’s agriculture and drinking water security, as India is the
largest groundwater user in the world. Groundwater supports 84% of the country’s net irrigated
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