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The Path To Building Resilience In Sri Lankan Rice Farms, Tarea Karunaratne
The Path To Building Resilience In Sri Lankan Rice Farms, Tarea Karunaratne
Student Theses 2015-Present
Rice cultivation in Sri Lanka roots back to its very first Kingdom in 161 B.C, and is still an incredibly populous industry to this day with an estimated 708,000 hectares of land being used for paddy cultivation. However, due to a changing global climate and an increase in natural disasters worldwide, Sri Lanka’s rice industry and the millions of people dependent on it have been greatly affected. This paper seeks to explore resilience building in a Sri Lankan context, taking into account the cultural and socio-economic factors that may influence how rice is farmed and who farms it, and to …