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Climate change is intensifying climate extremes, reducing food and water security and hampering attempts to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. The North-eastern states of India, like the rest of the country are experiencing significant rise in climate extremes events which increase the risk of substantial declines in agricultural production. Likewise, Tripura state of Northeast India is exposed to majority of the climate extremes. Climate change’s environmental consequences differ across gender due to a variety of factors. Due to greater reliance and connection to natural resources vulnerability also differs across communities. Keeping aforementioned facts in view, the study was executed in one purposively selected district West Tripura with the following objectives: (1) To assess the vulnerability to climate change of tribal and non-tribal farm-households; (2) To find out the influence of intra-household gender dynamics on household vulnerability to climate change and (3) To find out adaptation strategies to climate change adopted by the primary men and primary women members of a household. From the selected district, two blocks were selected purposively and from each of the selected block one tribal and one non-tribal dominated village were selected randomly. From each of the selected village 15 households were selected randomly. Thus a total of 60 households were selected for the study comprised of 49 male-headed and 11 female headed households. The primary men and primary women members of the households were selected as the study’s respondents. Thus, 49 primary men and 60 primary women were interviewed which gave a total sample size of 109 respondents. According to the findings, tribal farm-households had a higher LVI (Livelihood Vulnerability Index) score, indicating that they are more vulnerable to climate change than non-tribal households. Health, food and water were found to be the major LVI components that were most responsible for tribal farm-households’ higher vulnerability to climate change. Among the selected household gender dynamics variables income of primary women, primary women’s contribution in household income were found to have a positive significant correlation with LVI of households. Significant association was also observed between household head and LVI of households. Intra household variables viz., participation in decision making, access and control over productive resources, contribution and control over household income and workload were also found to be significantly affecting vulnerability of households. The mean LVI score was found higher for the households with only primary women having adequacy in intra-household variables, signifying higher vulnerability for female headed households. According to the findings of the study primary men adopted changing crop and planting dates as their top adaptation practices for managing climate change impacts whereas, it was mixed cropping and shifting to livestock rearing for primary women. Based on the findings, the study suggests special attention for awareness on appropriate irrigation schemes; need of empowering women of farm-households and implementation of social assistance and social insurance programmes by the Government for reducing the vulnerability of concerned.