Alternative Skills and Livelihood Need and Opportunity for the Tea Tribe and Adivasi Women to Mitigate Environment and Climate Change Impacts in Assam

India’s economy heavily depends on tea, with the state of Assam being the world’s top producer of black tea. Millions of people’s lives depend on the tea industry. There is a dearth of documentation that offers thorough spatial insights into the alternative livelihoods, in case their conventional source of livelihoods like tea plucking are threatened, primarily due to climate change. Hence, a thorough examination is necessary to determine vulnerability faced by those whose livelihoods depend on the tea landscape due to climate change.

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