Abstract
The paper aims to analyze the household livelihood issues and related coping strategies of one of the drought-prone and backward areas of rural and remote plateau tracks of Eastern India. The paper adopts socio-ecological systems approach to explore specific interactive environmental loops, indulging the drought-prone households to be ‘in-lock’ in poverty for years. Based on previous literature, the longitudinal survey of 200 farm and off-farm households, intense observation, and detailed recall survey, the study sketches the physical harshness of the area, i.e., rough terrain with prolonged drought conditions, soil infertility, and degraded vegetation cover causing extreme seasonality in income generation, recurrent crop failure, limited livelihood diversification, ample food poverty making the livelihood risk-averse. Therefore, against the backdrop of several interrelated and partially self-reinforcing socio-ecological traps, the study addresses some area-specific suggestions to increase alternative employment opportunities to ‘unlock’ the trapped households from poverty in a sustainable way.
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