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Resilience of Smallholder Cropping to Climatic Variability by Lamichhane, Prahlad; Miller, Kelly K.; Hadjikakou, Michalis; Bryan, Brett A. is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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Smallholder agriculture is a major contributor to global food production and is vital for ensuring food security in many developing countries. Smallholder agriculture is a typically complex and heterogeneous social-ecological system that is especially susceptible to climatic variability. Research has often focused on examining climate impacts on crops in smallholder agriculture. However, the resilience of smallholder agriculture in terms of maintaining yield remains largely unexplored. We empirically quantified the resilience of rice, wheat and maize to climatic variabilities for the Far Western Province of Nepal. We calculated resilience indices (RI) comparing the anomalies of actual yield in agricultural statistics to the expected yields generated by a process-based yield simulation model for nine districts across the Terai, Hill and Mountain regions of the province. Based on the sustainable livelihoods framework, we then assessed the degree to which indicator variables correlate with resilience. The results demonstrate the variability of resilience across regions and crops. Terai, Hill and Mountain regions were found to be resilient in wheat, rice and wheat, and maize, respectiv

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Author

Lamichhane, Prahlad; Miller, Kelly K.; Hadjikakou, Michalis; Bryan, Brett A.

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV; Publons (ISSN 0048-9697)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)