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The low-income and disadvantaged farming communities, residing in the villages of Shrimadhopur Block of the sikar district are open to increasing economic risks, besides facing the hard consequences of natural disasters and climate change. Most of the rivers and ponds in the area are snow-fed and have water scarcity and since the land hosts a complex geographical structure, the seasonal monsoons cause enormous pressure on the environment, leading to unexpected natural disasters as regular decreasing ground water level every year, especially in the proposed region. Such events have caused severe damage to human life, settlement patterns, local environment and, above all, to the economic sustainability of the farming communities. Continuous drought and water scarcity have spoiled agricultural production, destroyed livestock, displaced biodiversity, reduced productive human health and demolished habitation. These unfortunate periodical incidents increase the vulnerability of poor communities, fracturing their sources of income and undermining their sustainability practices. Further to this, these communities, time and again, adopt unsustainable income-generation activities which are characterized by inadequate planning, inaccessible markets, lack of organizational skills and poor coping strategies. Hence, a holistic intervention is required, in which disaster preparedness is combined with a mechanism that sustains and increases livelihood opportunities for the communities living in the semi-arid zone of Rajasthan
