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This report is the result of collaboration and extensive team effort. The authors would like to thank Francesca Mancini (FAO) for undertaking the first research in India as well as for her continued support throughout the project. In India, Nandini Prasad(Consultant) worked tirelessly and passionately with her team to carry out the field work in due time in spite of setbacks and challenges. We are really thankful. We would like to thank Carolyn Sachs (Penn State University) who led the quantitative data analysis and contributed her skills and ideas at the research and writing stages. Many thanks also to Margaret Alston (Monash University) who gave methodological advice and performed data analysis, M. Bharath Bhushan (Consultant) who carried out field work and institutional analysis, Selvaraju Ramasamy (FAO) who carried out the climate analysisand Lisa Schipper (Stockholm Environment Institute), who gave technical inputs on climate change adaptation.