scholarly journals Assessment of climate change impacts on agricultural sector in Vinh Long province

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-111
Author(s):  
Le Ngoc Tuan ◽  
Tran Thi Thuy

Climate change is one of the major challenges for humanity in the 21st century, has negatively affected many sectors. This work aimed at assessing impacts of climate change (CC) on agricultural sector in Vinh Long province till 2020 via data collection and processing method, Geographic Information System (GIS), risk assessment matrix, and SWOT. Flood, saltwater intrusion (SI), drought, landslide, storm, temperature, and precipitation were taken into consideration. Flood, SI, and temperature were found as main factors affecting on agricultural sector in Vinh Long province, especially rice. In Vinh Long province, Vung Liem, Long Ho, and Binh Tan districts were significantly effected. Besides, this work proposed some solutions to improve the adaptive capacity to CC of this sector, contributing to the local sustainable development.

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-89
Author(s):  
Zyra May Centino ◽  
Arvin Vista

The need to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change is urgent especially in the agriculture sector. However, there have been no published reports whether upland corn farmers are applying climate change adaptation strategies. This study sampled 91 upland corn farmers in Sagbayan, Bohol, Philippines to determine the factors affecting their decision to employ adaptations strategies. The adaptation strategies are those soil and water management and conservation techniques employed by farmers, which is modelled using binary logistic regression. The average age of the respondents was 56 years old. Respondents have been in corn production for an average period of 30 years. More than 50% of their annual household income comes from farming (PhP 25,393). Results showed that gender, farm income, total land used in farming and value of farm assets were the determinants of farmers’ use of adaptation strategies. Overall, corn farmers are knowledgeable of the impacts of climate change; however, employment of adaptation strategies is minimal. Hence, intervention should focus on programs that will increase probability of farmers employing adaptation strategies. Such programs may include farm-to-market roads to minimize post-harvest losses, setting of farmer field school and information drive.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 161-170
Author(s):  
Tuan Ngoc Le ◽  
Bang Van Nguyen

This work aimed to assess the vulnerability to the climate change (CC) in Vinh Long province till 2020. Inundation, saltwater intrusion (SI), drought, riverbank landslide, storm, temperature and precipitation were taken into consideration. In addition to the socialogical investigation, risk assessment matrix, adaptive capacity assessment methods, etc. the vulnerability to CC was evaluated via index method. Results showed that among 8 districts in the province, Long Ho, Vung Liem, Vinh Long city, and Tam Binh were the most vulnerable. Besides, sectors interested in the relationship to CC include agriculture, infrastructure, and landuse. Indicated vulnerable sectors and areas in the province were important factor for planning suitable coping measures, especially in the context of CC seriously increasing.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 225-236
Author(s):  
Tuan Ngoc Le ◽  
Bang Van Nguyen

This work aimed at assessing impacts of climate change (CC) on landuse sector in Vinh Long province to 2020. Flood, saltwater intrusion (SI), drought, landslide, storm, temperature, rainfall were taken into consideration and assessed by data collection, matrix, expert, SWOT, and GIS methods, etc. Results showed that flood and SI were the main factors impacting landuse sector in VinhLong province, especially agricultural land. In all 8 considered districts, in the context of CC, landuse sectors in VungLiem, TraOn, and MangThit districts were of the consideration. Besides, this research indicated strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of land use sector in the relationship to CC in the local which are important basis for planning suitable adaption measures.


2011 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 149-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
PRADEEP KURUKULASURIYA ◽  
NAMRATA KALA ◽  
ROBERT MENDELSOHN

Although there is now an extensive literature on the economic impacts of climate change on agriculture, no study has yet addressed the endogeneity of irrigation. This paper examines how climate affects the choice to irrigate and the conditional income earned by each farmer. The paper develops a selection model of irrigation choice and conditional income. Using data from farmers across eleven African countries, the paper demonstrates that the choice of irrigation is sensitive to both temperature and precipitation. Rainfed and irrigated farm income also both respond to climate but have different climate sensitivity. Impact models that fail to account for endogenous irrigation are biased.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Kapitza ◽  
Pham Van Ha ◽  
Tom Kompas ◽  
Nick Golding ◽  
Natasha C. R. Cadenhead ◽  
...  

AbstractClimate change threatens biodiversity directly by influencing biophysical variables that drive species’ geographic distributions and indirectly through socio-economic changes that influence land use patterns, driven by global consumption, production and climate. To date, no detailed analyses have been produced that assess the relative importance of, or interaction between, these direct and indirect climate change impacts on biodiversity at large scales. Here, we apply a new integrated modelling framework to quantify the relative influence of biophysical and socio-economically mediated impacts on avian species in Vietnam and Australia and we find that socio-economically mediated impacts on suitable ranges are largely outweighed by biophysical impacts. However, by translating economic futures and shocks into spatially explicit predictions of biodiversity change, we now have the power to analyse in a consistent way outcomes for nature and people of any change to policy, regulation, trading conditions or consumption trend at any scale from sub-national to global.


Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Kenshi Baba ◽  
Eri Amanuma ◽  
Motoko Kosugi

This study set up online virtual communities consisting of farmers and stakeholders involved in agriculture and nonfarmers living in rural areas interested in agricultural production. We conducted a deliberation within the communities for 14 days on identifying important climate change adaptation policies for 30 years later under climate change impacts with the relevant knowledge from experts. During the deliberation, after self-introduction took place including the realization of climate change impacts, the participants were provided with the expert knowledge on impacts of climate change, adaptation policies in agricultural sector and so on, then the following discussions covered issues such as the distribution of agricultural produce, insufficient successors, and support for farmers, such as impacts on crops during disasters concerning future scenarios. Attitude changes before and after deliberation were observed in terms of the pros and cons of climate change adaptation policies in agriculture and rural areas, but statistically significant differences were not observed. On the other hand, a statistically significant change was observed in some determinants of the pros and cons, such as the perceived effectiveness and goal intention. This structural change results from that the participants became aware of a different perspective through deliberation. Thus, the online deliberation process was effective to some extent in increasing knowledge and promoting deeper understanding among participants during inquiry and reasoning was deepened in the process as they listened to the opinions of others in a different position with a different idea as well as read and search for scientific findings and information provided by experts.


2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Attaher ◽  
M. A. Medany ◽  
A. F. Abou-Hadid

Abstract. The overall agricultural system in the Nile Delta region is considered as one of the highest intensive and complicated agriculture systems in the world. According to the recent studies, the Nile Delta region is one of the highly vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. Sea level rise, soil and water degradation, undiversified crop-pattern, yield reduction, pests and disease severity, and irrigation and drainage management were the main key factors that increased vulnerability of the agriculture sector in that region. The main objective of this study is to conduct a community-based multi-criteria adaptation assessment in the Nile Delta using a preset questionnaire. A list of possible adaptation measures for agriculture sector was evaluated. The results indicated that the Nile Delta growers have strong perceptions to act positively to reduce the impacts of climate change. They reflected the need to improve the their adaptive capacity based on clear scientific message with adequate governmental support to coop with the negative impacts of climate change.


2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 232-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Guiteras ◽  
Amir Jina ◽  
A. Mushfiq Mobarak

A burgeoning “Climate-Economy” literature has uncovered many effects of changes in temperature and precipitation on economic activity, but has made considerably less progress in modeling the effects of other associated phenomena, like natural disasters. We develop new, objective data on floods, focusing on Bangladesh. We show that rainfall and self-reported exposure are weak proxies for true flood exposure. These data allow us to study adaptation, giving accurate measures of both long-term averages and short term variation in exposure. This is important in studying climate change impacts, as people will not only experience new exposures, but also experience them differently.


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