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Monsoon failure & climate change not only triggers for acute distress in rural India

2016-04-10 01:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Economic Times: Re-curring drought conditions in many parts of India are leading to starvation and distress migration. Rural poor are the worst victims of crop failure, compounded by a slump in construction activities and non-availability of work in the MGNREGA rural employment scheme. However, drought cannot be blamed entirely on monsoon failure or on climate change; a flawed agricultural policy is a bigger causative factor in the collapse of farm and dairy production in semi-arid regions. The policy approach...

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