Climate Change Adaptation in Nepal: Exploring Ways to Overcome the Barriers

Regmi, Bimal Raj; Bhandari, Dinanath

doi:10.3126/jfl.v11i1.8612

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“…Because of climate change it is reported untimely start of monsoon rainfall that resulted rain deficit in the eastern Terai lowlands in 2005/06, reducing crop production by 12.5% nationwide (Malla, 2008). In agriculture, about 10% of agricultural land was left fallow due to rain deficit on the one hand, while on the other hand in the Midwestern Terai faced heavy rain with floods, which reduced crop production by 30% (Regmi & Bhandari, 2013). The participants of the FGD responded higher temperature, erratic rainfall, hailstones, drought and landslides in last decades that had affects in subsistence agriculture of Kamalamai Municipality.…”

Section: People Perception On Climate Changementioning

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Local People’s Perception on Climate Change at Kamalamai Municipality, Sindhuli

2019

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Climate change (CC) has become one of the intervening issues in the last few decades. Climate change can severely affect the way community is living, prominently the developing countries. Climate change brings out wide ranging effects on water resources, agriculture, human health and biodiversity. The study was conducted in ward number 3, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 13 of Kamalamai municipality Sindhuli, Nepal. The methods adopted for the data were key informant interviews, group discussions and observations. In order to support the primary data and secondary data were also used. The secondary sources of Data were obtained from the public documents of the different ministries, departments, Central Bureau of Statistics and journal articles. Group discussions, Key informant interviews and observation were carried out to identify the impact of climate change on vegetation and agriculture. The findings of the study show that majority of the household perceived the impact of climate change on vegetation and agriculture while very few people were unknown about the impact. Climate change expected to cause many other climatic hazards, which directly affect the economy and livelihoods of the people.

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Local People’s Perception on Climate Change at Kamalamai Municipality, Sindhuli

2019

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“…In Nepal, numerous studies have been performed on the effects of climate change on agriculture [8] [13] [22] [23] [24] [25], rice production [15] [16] [26] and climate change adaptation [24] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31]. Despite the interest in climate change adaptations at the local and regional levels, little literature is available on issues such as determinants, perceptions and barriers that affect the adoption of climate change adaptation options for rice production.…”

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Perception, Determinants and Barriers for the Adoption of Climate Change Adaptation Options among Nepalese Rice Farmers

Devkota¹,

Phuyal²,

Shrestha³

2018

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This paper estimates the perceptions, determinants and barriers regarding the adoption of climate change adaptation options among Nepalese rice farmers. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to source respondents for the study, and structured questionnaire techniques were used to collect data from 773 households across seven districts (3 from Terai and 4 from the hilly region of Nepal). A binomial logistic regression model was used to detangle the determinants for the adoption of climate change adaptation options among farmers. The results revealed that approximately 80.7% of the farmers perceived change in temperature, and 90% believed that there was a decrease in rainfall in the 30-year period. In total, 77% of farming households responded that rice production and yield has decreased due to such changes, which has forced them to adopt available adaptation options. This study found that 12 adaptation options have been mainly used by rice farmers, and among them, there has been an increasing use of chemical fertilizer, climate-smart rice verities, and changes in nursery date, which are the first three adoption options. Overall, 71% of farmers adopt such adaptation options to protect themselves from perceived risk. However, farmers are facing several barriers, such as capital inadequacy, high cost of agricultural inputs, poor adaptation information provided to farmers, inadequate access to credit facilities and inadequate awareness about adaptation regarding the adoption of such options. Binomial regression results revealed that several factors influence a farmer's choice in adaptation measures. Our findings suggest the need for greater investment to remove these barriers and institutional shortcomings and help to improve a rice farmer's wellbeing.

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“…In their study, Devkota, Phuyal & Shrestha (2017) identified that rural rice farmers have adopted 12 different adaptation options to prevent themselves from climatic anomalies. Several previous studies (Jones & Byod, 2011;Regmi & Bhandari, 2013) show that such adaptation is not easy to the rural level due to various diseconomies of scale. Such studies argued that rice production and its productivity in Nepal has been facing several constraints and challenges related to socio-economic and infrastructures that lead to low level of productivity (Joshi, 2017).…”

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Climate Change Adaptation related Hindrances among Rice Farmers in Nepal: Farm Level Analysis

Phuyal

Devkota

Shrestha

2017

J. Devpt & Admin. Stud.

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The objective of this study is to measure the hindrances of climate change adaptation among rural rice farmers in Nepal and its possible way forward. This study was done in seven districts, one district from each of seven provinces, where three from Terai region (i.e. Bara, Dang and Kailali) and four from Hilly region (i.e. Ilam, Sindhuli, Syangja and Surkhet) of Nepal. A structural questionnaire with both closed and open - ended questions were prepared and used to obtain required information from 773 rice farming households from the targeted study areas. Interviews were conducted for the crop year 2016 and for the main season rice cultivation in Nepal covering from June/July to October/November of each year (i.e., monsoonal cultivation of paddy). Results show that, factors such as inadequate operational capital, poor access to weather forecast and climate change information, inadequate awareness program on climate change from government and non-government agencies are the major barriers for over 90 percent of the farmers surveyed by this study. Similarly, about 80 percent of the sample surveyed farmers opined that high cost of improving seeds, fertilizers and irrigation, inadequate knowledge on coping mechanism or in building resilience and inadequate access to credit facilities are the major hindrances to them for addressing weather and Climate Change (CC) related vagaries. Hence, the empirical results drawn from this study suggest that there is an urgent need in Nepal for greater investment at agrarian sector to address these farmers’ level constraints and including supports for improving access to market and credit issues to farmers ( institutional and policy supports). Poor and ultra-poor farmers are more vulnerable from the vagaries of climate change, thereby immediate actions are needed from Ministry of Agriculture, and newly set up local government units in terms of more public investments at local and national level to enhance the climate change resilience of smallholding and poor farmers of Nepal.

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Climate Change Adaptation in Nepal: Exploring Ways to Overcome the Barriers

Cited by 45 publications

References 33 publications

Local People’s Perception on Climate Change at Kamalamai Municipality, Sindhuli

Local People’s Perception on Climate Change at Kamalamai Municipality, Sindhuli

Perception, Determinants and Barriers for the Adoption of Climate Change Adaptation Options among Nepalese Rice Farmers

Climate Change Adaptation related Hindrances among Rice Farmers in Nepal: Farm Level Analysis

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