Local rainfall fluctuations and their impact on crop production and gender roles in drought prone areas: Case of groundnut crop from Ananthpur district of Andhra Pradesh

In the era of climate change, farmers to adapt to the changing climate, the policy makers need to understand this in a broader context of ecological, economical and sociopolitical processes and build support systems to facilitate adaptation. One of the key issue is bringing village-level weather variations centre-stage because climate variations are highly localized. Prioritize on ecological farming practices as they reduce the contribution to climate change and help in adopting to the change. Understanding, the weather variations and adaptation with a gender lens is very important as the impact of the variations is high on them.