Adaptation Strategies and Factors Influencing the Adaptation Choices

Abstract

This chapter documents the ongoing community-based adaptation practices, which are categorized according to the fivefold classification based on risk pooling across space, time, assets, household, and market. It is measured in terms of adoption rate by the households. A comparison of this adoption rate with adaptive capacity across the four study sites shows that balanced possession of all asset categories is necessary to translate adaptive capacity into adaptation actions. A multivariate probit model is used to analyze the factors influencing the adoption of various adaptation practices. Five categories of adaptation choices are analyzed against a set of socio-economic, institutional, infrastructural, and perception variables. Perception, landholding, land tenure, distance to road, credit, information, extension services, and training are influential to enable the households to adapt.