scholarly journals Perception of and adaptation to climate change by farmers in the Nile basin of Ethiopia

2010 ◽  
Vol 149 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. T. DERESSA ◽  
R. M. HASSAN ◽  
C. RINGLER
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Environmental Temperature ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Nile Basin ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Step Process ◽  
Crop And Livestock Production

SUMMARYThe present study employed the Heckman sample selection model to analyse the two- step process of adaptation to climate change, which initially requires farmers' perception that climate is changing prior to responding to changes through adaptation. Farmers' perception of climate change was significantly related to the age of the head of the household, wealth, knowledge of climate change, social capital and agro-ecological settings. Factors significantly affecting adaptation to climate change were: education of the head of the household, household size, whether the head of the household was male, whether livestock were owned, the use of extension services on crop and livestock production, the availability of credit and the environmental temperature.

Social capital, trust, and adaptation to climate change: Evidence from rural Ethiopia

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 124-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Paul ◽  
Erika S. Weinthal ◽  
Marc F. Bellemare ◽  
Marc A. Jeuland
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Rural Ethiopia

scholarly journals Community-based adaptation to climate change in small island developing states: an analysis of the role of social capital

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 723-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.C. Hagedoorn ◽  
L.M. Brander ◽  
P.J.H. van Beukering ◽  
H.M. Dijkstra ◽  
C. Franco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Small Island Developing States ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Adaptation

scholarly journals “We Will Always Ask Ourselves the Question of How to Feed the Family”: Subsistence Farmers’ Perceptions on Adaptation to Climate Change in Burkina Faso

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 7200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raissa Sorgho ◽  
Isabel Mank ◽  
Moubassira Kagoné ◽  
Aurélia Souares ◽  
Ina Danquah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
National Development ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Subsistence Farmers ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Adaptation Policies

In West Africa, climate change aggravates subsistence farmers’ vulnerability to weather variability to sustain their agricultural and nutritional requirements. For successful adaptation policies, in-depth understanding of farmers’ perceptions about climate change, agriculture, and adaptation strategies is essential. This qualitative study in rural Burkina Faso characterized farmers’ perceptions and knowledge through in-depth interviews. The study enumerated the barriers, possibilities, strategies/practices, and support sources of farmers. There was awareness but limited understanding of climate change amongst farmers. Those unable to adapt, faced increased health difficulties, specifically regarding nutrition and mental health. Farmers could implement some dietary and agricultural adaptation strategies (reduce meal size, frequency and variety, preemptive purchase of cereals, multi-cropping, crop rotation, modified seeds) but were unable to implement others (soil rehabilitation, water management). Barriers to implementation comprised financial and time constraints, material and labor shortages, and inaccessible information. Farmers did not understand, trust or utilize meteorological services, but appreciated and relied on agricultural extension services. They reported that social and governmental support was sporadic and inconsistent. This study uncovers the following targets for climate change adaptation policies in rural Burkina Faso: promoting meteorological services, expanding agricultural extension services, increasing access to financial resources, and framing sustainable adaptation within national development goals.

Helping the Helpless: Contribution of Rural Extension Services to Smallholder Farmers’ Climate Change Adaptive Capacity and Adaptation in Rural Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Asare-Nuamah ◽  
Ebo Botchway ◽  
Justina A. Onumah
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Transfer Of Skills

While there is no doubt that extension services play an active role in promoting smallholder farmers’ adaptive capacity and adaptation to climate change, there is a dearth of information and research on how this institution champions climate change adaptation in rural farming communities in Ghana. This study employed a qualitative case study design and interviewed 15 extension officers and 26 smallholder farmers to understand how extension services enhance smallholder farmers’ climate change adaptive capacity and adaptation in the rural Adansi North District in Ghana. The findings indicate that extension services adopt multiple strategies to build the adaptive capacity of farmers to climate change. Through the transfer of skills and knowledge, technology and innovations, supply of inputs, technical advice and liaison role with existing local institutions, farmers are able to adapt to climate change. The study further revealed that extension services are hindered by geographical, sociocultural and economic challenges which affect their alignment and fitness to effectively assist smallholder farmers. The study recommends strengthening the capacity of the extension institution. Moreover, more experts must be trained to provide special, targeted and important services to smallholder farmers in respect of climate change sensitization and adaptation.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS AND STRATEGIES OF FARMERS’ ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CASE OF MEDENINE GOVERNORATE, TUNISIA

AGROFOR ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma ARIBI ◽  
Mongi SGHAIER
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Multinomial Logit ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Agricultural Households

Climate change is a worldwide environmental issue to all economic sectors, mainly the agricultural sector. Tunisia is one of the countries adversely affected by climate change because of its low adaptive capacity. Adapting to climate threat is the main goal of farmers, who are the primary stakeholders in agriculture, to increase the resilience of their farming systems. Based on a survey between March and May 2018 with 100 agricultural households from the governorate of Medenine, which belongs to Southeast Tunisia, this paper examined the main adaptive measures to climate change used by farmers, the factors influencing their choice of measures and the constraints to adaptation. To explore the factors affecting the choice of adaptive measures, this study employed a multinomial logit regression. Results showed that irrigation, crop diversification, integration of crop with livestock and shifting from farm to non-farm activities were the main adaptive measures implemented by farmers in the study area. Further, the multinomial logit model indicated that the factors influencing the choice of adaptive measures included household head age, access to extension services, household income, number of years of experience of the household head in agriculture, and the distance to the market. The results demonstrated also that adaptation to climate change was hindered by many factors such as constrained resources, lack of money, and water shortage. The findings of this research suggest the need for improving the access to extension services, to water, and to means of production to enhance the resilience of vulnerable agricultural households and to improve their wellbeing.

scholarly journals ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE BASED ON FARMERS’PERCEPTION: A STUDY ON INDIGENOUS HILLS CULTIVATORS IN NAGALAND, INDIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niranjan Roy ◽  
Avijit Debnath ◽  
Sunil Nautiyal
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change

Climate change is believed to have severe impacts on different sectors of an economy especially the agricultural sector. The adverse impact of climate change, however, can be mitigated if farmers have awareness and better level of adaptive responses. This study examines the perception of farmers belong to indigenous communities in the state of Nagaland of Northeast India on climate change and analyzes their adaptation responses to climate change. A hundred and twenty farming households were interviewed during July and August 2019. The study employed the Heckman sample selection model to analyse the two- step process of adaptation to climate change. Farmers’ perception of climate change was significantly related to the age of the head of the household, level of education, and past experience of drought and flood. On the other hand, adaptation to climate change is determined by education of household head, economic status, and access to credit, type of cultivation, non-farm income, farming experience, distance to market, and past experience of climatic hazard

scholarly journals Drivers of Multiple Cropping-Systems as Adaptive Strategy to Climate Change in Central-Benin (West Africa)

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
P. K. Degla ◽  
S. A. Adekambi ◽  
P. Adanhoussode
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Probit Regression ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Multiple Cropping ◽  
Extension Services

<p>Climate change is currently one of the most important global environmental issues that negatively affect agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. This importance has resulted in a great interest to understand both the farmers’ perception of and adaptation to observed climate change. A good number of previous studies did explicitly focus on several adaptation strategies. Nevertheless, a better understanding of the socio-economic drivers underlying specific adaptive measures to climate change is crucial to inform specific adaptation components that will fall into a wider adaptation plan. In this respect, the present study focuses on the use of multiple cropping systems consisting of growing two or more crops on the same field either at the same time or one after another as climate change adaptation strategy. Accordingly, this paper examines different strategies commonly used to intensify agricultural production in tropical agriculture. These include crop rotation and association in the center of Benin.</p><p>Data were collected in central Benin through interviews with 80 farmers selected by using a multistage random sampling technique. Data analysis was carried-out by using descriptive statistics and a Probit regression. The results showed that the major drivers of multiple cropping systems as adaptive strategy to climate change include contacts with extension services, education level, and farm size. Major constraints to the use of multiple cropping systems are gender, adult literacy, perception of adaptation to climate change, experience with climate change impacts, and farmer location. Policy options should include, among others, production of information related to impacts of climate change and their dissemination through formal services such as extension services; identification of potential ways to greatly improve returns on extra agricultural activities, and investigating on the effects of past adoption strategies on the different cropping systems.</p>

scholarly journals Institutional Factors Affecting Farmers’ Decision to Adapt to Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Mpho Tshikororo ◽  
Phineas Khazamula Chauke ◽  
Jethro Zuwarimwe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Institutional Factors ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Extension Services

Adaptation to climate change has become the global focal point especially in recent years. Researchers have defined adaptation to climate change as an effective way for farmers to survive in the face of the scourge. This paper investigated how institutional factors plays a role in farmers&rsquo; decision to adapt to climate change. The population of the study was emerging farmers drawn from five districts of the Limpopo province of South Africa. The study used a two-stage cluster sampling technique to select a sample size of 206 emerging farmers. The dependent variable of the study was farmers&rsquo; decision to adapt to climate change while the explanatory variables consisted of institutional factors such as access to extension services, farmers&rsquo; organisation, membership and access to climate change information. Binary Logistic Regression model was used to determine emerging farmers&rsquo; decision to adapt to climate change in Limpopo province. The results showed that institutional factors such as access to both weather information and extension services together with special training on climate change adaptation significantly influenced farmers&rsquo; decision to adapt. Therefore, the study recommended participation of different stakeholders to provide institutional support to farmers and thus enhance their extent to adaptation.

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