scholarly journals Identifying Barriers and Enablers for Climate Change Adaptation of Farmers in Semi-Arid North-Western China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (18) ◽  
pp. 7494
Author(s):  
Lan Mu ◽  
Lan Fang ◽  
Yuhong Liu ◽  
Chencheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Weather Forecasting ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Western China ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Agricultural Subsidies ◽  
North Western ◽  
Semi Arid

The changing climate represents a large challenge for farmers, and adaptation responses are necessary to minimize impacts. Mixed approaches, which involve the analysis of meteorological data, web-based surveys, and face-to-face interviews, explore producers’ barriers and pressing needs to enhance climate resilience based on the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) approach in semi-arid north-western China. According to the main categories of farming activity, 85 crop farmers, 68 animal farmers, and 81 agro-tourism operators were interviewed. We found that most of the producers perceived climate impacts, and they encountered multiple adaptation obstacles, of which institutional and normative obstacles were more serious, such as farmers unable to obtain resources or government incentives, lacked scientific, and efficient coping measures. The survey also observed that crop farmers had a pressing need for agricultural subsidies, while animal farmers and agro-tourism operators had a strong enabler for animal housing infrastructure and credit facilities, respectively. Given the heterogeneity of the context and climate change experience of different categories of farmers, it is necessary to formulate flexible adaptation strategies and adjust them according to specific climate stress and farming conditions. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and implement the 2015 Paris Agreement, policymakers should plan and introduce appropriate adaptation strategies to minimize the adverse effects of climate change such as improving irrigation and weather forecasting system through technological advancement, cost reduction of farm inputs, ensuring availability of information, providing agricultural subsidies to the farmers, and increasing the access to agricultural markets.

Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change, Determinants and Barriers Among Pastoralists in Inner Mongolia, Arid and Semi-Arid Region of China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Wang ◽  
Huamin Liu ◽  
Xuhua Liu ◽  
Zhichao Xu ◽  
Lu Wen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Inner Mongolia ◽  
Arid Region ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Pastoral System ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Semi Arid Region ◽  
Semi Arid

Abstract Climate change is going to be one that presents major challenges facing pastoral system, especially in arid and semi-arid region. How pastoralists perceive and adapt has become increasingly important part in providing foundation for households and governments to develop adaptation policies. This article aims to investigate the pastoralists' perceptions on climatic change variability and impacts, in addition, to explore the pastoralists' adaptation strategies and determinants using a Multivariate Probit Model, as well as barriers and needs in the adaptive process. We collected questionnaires from the pastoral areas across four districts in Inner Mongolia. The findings revealed that pastoralists' perception of the inter-annual temperature variation is relatively coincide with actual meteorological data. This study found that 11 adaptation strategies have been commonly used by pastoralists, moreover, household production capital, risk-buffering capacity, and social network influenced the pastoralists' adaptations. However, barriers remain for pastoralists, such as inadequate capital and labor, lack of water, limited access to credit, technological knowledge, and timely weather information. Further, our findings indicated that pastoralists need hazard relief fund, improved pasture facilities, technical knowledge training, active weather-based information, integrated pest and disease management and off-farm employment opportunities. This combination of our findings potentially provides some support for developing appropriate and long-term specific policies to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change.

Less Rain and More Heat”: Smallholders’ Perception and Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Tropical Environments

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Diana Infante Ramírez ◽  
Ana Minerva Arce Ibarra
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Weather Forecasting ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Seasonal Migration ◽  
Forest Zone ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies

The main objective of this study was to analyze local perceptions of climate variability and the different adaptation strategies of four communities in the southern Yucatán Peninsula, using the Social-Ecological System (SES) approach. Four SESs were considered: two in the coastal zone and two in the tropical forest zone. Data were collected using different qualitative methodological tools (interviews, participant observation, and focal groups) and the information collected from each site was triangulated. In all four sites, changes in climate variability were perceived as “less rain and more heat”. In the tropical forest (or Maya) zone, an ancestral indigenous weather forecasting system, known as “Xook k’íin” (or “las cabañuelas”), was recorded and the main activity affected by climate variability was found to be slash-and burn farming or the milpa. In the coastal zone, the main activities affected are fishing and tourism. In all the cases analyzed, local climate change adaptation strategies include undertaking alternative work, and changing the calendar of daily, seasonal and annual labor and seasonal migration. The population of all four SESs displayed concern and uncertainty as regards dealing with these changes and possible changes in the future.

scholarly journals Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Variability and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Cinzana, Mali

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Touré Halimatou ◽  
Zampaligre Nouhoun ◽  
Traoré Kalifa ◽  
Kyei-Baffour Nicholas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Rainfall Variability ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Annual Rainfall ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Future Economic Development

Several studies predict that climate change will highly affect the African continent. These changes in climate and climate variability may be challenging issues for future economic development of the continent in general, and particularly in the region of sub Saharan Africa. Offering a case study of Sahelian zone of Mali in the present study aimed to understand farmers’ perceptions of climate variability and change and to evaluate adaptation options used by farmers in the Cinzana commune of Mali. One hundred and nineteen farmers were interviewed using a questionnaire designed with six sections. The result showed that all farmers interviewed were aware of climate change and climate variability. The Farmers perceived a decrease in annual rainfall variability and an increase of temperature as main factors of climate change and climate variability. The observed meteorological data, showed a decrease of precipitation distribution during the last 14 years of which was observed by farmers. Several strategies such as selling animals, use of improved crop varieties, new activities (outside agriculture) and credit were the commonly preferred adaptation strategies to deal with climate change and variability. Factors surveyed, age, gender, education, household size, farm size were found to be significantly correlated to self-reported to adaptation.

Adaptation strategies for maize production under climate change for semi-arid environments

2020 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 126040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishfaq Ahmad ◽  
Burhan Ahmad ◽  
Kenneth Boote ◽  
Gerrit Hoogenboom
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Arid Environments ◽  
Maize Production ◽  
Semi Arid

High-resolution records of climate change in arid eastern central Asia during MIS 3 (51 600-25 300 cal a BP) from Wulungu Lake, north-western China

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 577-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaonan Zhang ◽  
Aifeng Zhou ◽  
Can Zhang ◽  
Shengtun Hao ◽  
Yongtao Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Western China ◽  
Mis 3 ◽  
North Western ◽  
Eastern Central Asia

Evaluation of olive response and adaptation strategies to climate change under semi-arid conditions

2018 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 247-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.J. Lorite ◽  
C. Gabaldón-Leal ◽  
M. Ruiz-Ramos ◽  
A. Belaj ◽  
R. de la Rosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Arid Conditions ◽  
Semi Arid

scholarly journals ENDOGENOUS PERCEPTIONS AND MEASURES FOR AGROPASTORALISTS’ ADAPTATION IN THE SAHELIAN AREA OF BURKINA FASO

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 62-74
Author(s):  
Sanou Daouda ◽  
Toe Bernadette ◽  
Traore Almamy ◽  
Kabore Adama ◽  
Tamboura H. Hamidou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Local Adaptation ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Pastoral Production ◽  
Livestock Farmers

The study was conducted to understand the perceptions and local adaptation strategies of rural sahelian communities in Burkina Faso to climate change on ruminant rearing practices. For this purpose, the study was carried out in the rural commune of Bani by collecting primary from semi-structured interviews with 143 producers and secondary data of temperature, rainfall and their spatial and temporal evolution from 2005 to 2016. Analysis of these data reveals that 67.13% of the producers are male and 32.86% female, with an average age of 55 ± 0.3 years. These respondents were agropastoralists with an average of 3.5 ha of cultivated land, using traditional seeds (100% of respondents) and improved seeds (58.7%) and rearing local breeds of ruminants. For climate change, respondents notified an increase in temperature and a decrease in rainfall that corroborates the analysis of the meteorological data collected. The consequences of climate change on livestock farmers' resources are food insecurity, lack of pasture, drought and low animal productivity. The local adaptation strategies applied by livestock farmers are the diversification of agro-sylvo-pastoral production (88.11%) and income-generating activities (70%).  In the study area, diversification is the strategy adopted by agro-pastoralists to ensure food security and provide income to meet the daily needs of families.

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