Author: Muhammad Ashraf
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss. no.RD-14-01
Year: 2014
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (Ph. D.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2014
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Gopal B. Thapa, Sangam Shrestha (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Drought is one of the major threats among all natural hazards to people‘s livelihoods and socio – economic development. Balochistan is prone to dr ought and has been impacted severely during 1998 – 2002. The people are engaged in orchard and livestock farming activities for earning their livelihoods. Provincial economy of Balochistan mainly depends on agriculture and livestock sectors, which accounts f or more than 50 percent of the GDP and employs about 67 percent of the labor force. Majority of the population (85 percent) lives in rural areas and agriculture is their main source of income in the province. Agriculture is more vulnerable to drought impac ts because of high dependency on natural resources and it becomes difficult for the agriculture dependent communities to regain and normalize their livelihood even after drought. Moreover, poor farm households are more vulnerable to drought hazard because of their limited ability to cope and adapt with the situation. Therefore, this dissertation has attempted to assess the spatio – temporal characteristics of drought in order to identify drought prone areas and to examine the local communities‘ exposure to d rought. It has also focused on orchard farmers‘ perception and their understanding about the extreme situation of drought along with drought induced impacts on their agro – based practices and how they cope with difficult situation and finally suggests strat egies for agriculture and disaster management to formulate policies and extend relevant services in order to facilitate farmers in sustaining their livelihood against drought in the future. This dissertation is based on both secondary and primary sources o f data collected from 215 farm households following a structured questionnaire survey. At macro level analysis, Balochistan province is taken as the study area while district Pishin, p
Scholarship Donor(s): University of Balochistan (UOB), Quetta, Pakistan; Asian Institute of Technology Fellowship
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Regional and Rural Development Planning
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