Analytical Study on Resilience to Adverse Weather Events among Tribal and Non Tribal Livestock Farmers: A Livelihood Security Perspective

摘要

With the changing climatic conditions sole dependenceon crop farming resulted in vulnerable livelihood situation amongfarming community in India. Livestock farmers throughdiversification can ensure much better livelihood security than otherfarmers who are dependent on crop farming only. On the other hand,different categories of farmers i.e. tribal and non tribal farmers, werealso enjoying varied level of livelihood and resilience status againstextreme weather events. Varied level of social support, socialbonding and customs affects the resilience status of individual farmeragainst extreme weather events. One ‘Resilience Scale’ wasconstructed to measure resilience status of both tribal and non triballivestock rearers. Parameters for livelihood index were identified andthen Livelihood index was developed. Data were collected by usingstructured interview schedule. Test of homogeneity of variance forboth livelihood security index (Levene statistic 2.46) and resiliencescale (Levene statistic 2.01) was insignificant and thus one wayANOVA was run and it was found in both the cases significantdifferences were there between tribal and non-tribal farmer groups.For Livelihood security index, F-value was 458.51 and for resiliencescale F-value was 131.98. Correlation value of ranks pertaining to‘Role of Dairying with respect to Resilience to adverse weatherevents’ given by non-tribal and tribal farmers suggested that, rankswere not significantly correlated (Kendall's tau_b=-.467 andSpearman's rho= -.600 ).