Seasonal water scarcity in southern China has been an issue of concern for many years. The increased frequency of low precipitation
in the growing season of rice created a flurry of discussions in the academic and policy arenas. These events severely disrupted
the supply of irrigation water for agriculture in paddy field areas and posed a substantial threat to farmers’ livelihoods.
Within a broader context of accessing farmers’ resilience to agricultural drought, this paper focuses on the response mechanisms
and adaptive strategies adopted by farming households in three types of areas (Plain, Hill, Mountain) in Dingcheng, Hunan
Province. With the increasing drought frequency and the pressure from the demand for livelihood improvement, farmers’ response
mechanisms have evolved, expanding from short-term adjustments to long-term adaptations, and switching focus from securing
reliable water sources to improving irrigation efficiency and diversifying both on- and off- farm productions. The three types
of geographic units have different resilience profiles and have developed diverse patterns of adaptive processes that update
the conceptual model of Disaster Resilience of “Loss-Response” of Location. It presents a temporal dimension to the study
of resilience, which is largely missing from the current literature and provides insights into how to enhance farmers’ response
capacities in the face of agricultural drought in southern China. 相似文献
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