Farmer Resilience to Floods - A Post-Disaster Analysis in the Flood Plains of Kerala, India

Extreme weather and climate events lead to substantial economic impacts, loss of lives livelihoods, adverse effects on human well-being the environment. In a scenario where intensity incidence change induced extreme are common, disasters will continue be regular phenomenon, compelling us learn live with it. The resilience rural communities adversities need explored, cope with, adapt disasters. background unprecedented deluge that engulfed in Kerala, southernmost tip India, 2018 study was undertaken analyse level affected farmers. Although people state have experienced minor floods past years, flood left wholly devastated, turbulent water taking away most their assets livelihood options. used factor analysis logit model farmer resilience. conducted by selecting 120 sample farmers along plains Chalakudy river, one worst plains. Through analysis, seven factors representing eight components were identified. identified risk orientation as highly influencing building Logistic regression revealed education subsidiary occupation having positive influence, while family size crop diversification index negatively influence