About the Book: Determinants of Farmers Uncertainty
The book examines why Indian agriculture and rural livelihoods so often operate
"on the edge" between order and chaos—and what can be done about it. Drawing on
social entropy, game-theoretic intuition, and social-ecological systems
thinking, the book maps how climate volatility, market swings, technological
change, policy flux, and ecological stressors co-produce risk for farmers. It
blends theory, a rich review of literature, and an empirically grounded study
(with a rural Bengal focus) to identify the key determinants of perceived
uncertainty across market, meteorological, technological, economic, and
ecological domains. Methodologically, it pairs classical tools with modern
analytics (ANN, FCM, AHP, ARIMA) to quantify