Vulnerability analysis of smallholder farmers to climate variability and change: an agro-ecological system-based approach in the Fincha’a sub-basin of the upper Blue Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Ecological Processes

Table 6 Calculated indices for contributing factors and the Livelihood Vulnerability Index under the LVI-IPCC framework

AES	Exposure	Sensitivity	Adaptive capacity	LVI-IPCC
Highland	0.324	0.626	0.623	− 0.187
Midland	0.142	0.429	0.679	− 0.231
Wetland	0.348	0.578	0.601	− 0.146
Lowland	0.607	0.685	0.426	0.124