Gender and Adaptation to Climate Change: Perspectives from a Pastoral Community in Gujarat, India: Gender and Adaptation to Climate Change
Publisher: Development and Change
Author(s): Kalpana Venkatasubramanian and Smita Ramnarain
Date: 2018
Topics: Climate Change, Gender
Countries: India
Adaptation of rural communities to climate change has garnered much attention recently. Within this body of knowledge, two omissions are notable: first, while adaptation and coping responses of agricultural communities to climate variability and extremes are discussed extensively in rural planning, pastoral and agro-pastoral communities are neglected, homogenized, or considered ancillary to sedentarized agriculture. The mechanisms used by these communities to confront socio-economic and institutional limitations to climate adaptation remain relatively unexamined. Second, not much is known about pastoral women's perceptions of climate adaptation and coping. This article examines the socially situated perspective of women in the Maldhari pastoral community in Gujarat, Western India.