Climate change and coastal aquaculture farmers’ risk perceptions: experiences from Bangladesh and Denmark

Climate change skepticism and index versus standard crop insurance demand in coastal Bangladesh

“…Similar to previous studies in rural Bangladesh that report farmers' experiences of changing climactic conditions (Ahsan and Brandt 2015) -at times with striking correlation between meteorological evidence and farmers' recollection of short-term climactic histories (Shameem et al 2015) -85% of the farmers surveyed in our study reported having somehow observed the trend of climate change during the past decades. The same percentage of the sampled respondents accepted the thesis that climate change has anthropogenic origins.…”

“…In addition to the difficulty that many smallholders may experience in paying insurance premiums (Binswanger-Mkhize 2012), these reasons appear to partially drive the failure of private sector investment in crop insurance schemes and the frequent need to underwrite both pilot and established insurance projects (Miranda and Farrin 2012). Also working in coastal Bangladesh, Ahsan and Brandt (2015) hypothesized that increased involvement of farming communities is crucial in the planning and development of viable climate change adaptation strategies, and in the successful prioritization and implementation of policies to support them. Our findings provide general backing for this thesis.…”

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“…In a survey carried out in Bangladesh and Denmark, aqua-farmers in both countries perceived that climate change will increase the oxygen-depletion and will have a negative impact on aquaculture production (Ahsan & Brandt, 2015). The results of survey conducted by Aphunu and Nwabeze (2012) reveal that fish farmers in Nigeria believed that climate change will have a negative impact on reproductive performance of fish and cost of fish production.…”

“…Several scholars underline the importance of revelation of stakeholders' risk perceptions on climate change for developing appropriate adaptation and mitigation policies (Mahon, 2002;Aphunu & Nwabeze, 2012;Marshall et al, 2013;Gray et al, 2014;Fleming et al, 2014;Ahsan & Brandt, 2015;Lebel et al, 2015). In this regard, this survey sheds light on perception of Turkish aquaculture stakeholders on climate change-aquaculture interactions and associated risks and reveals that there is relatively a high level of awareness on this issue.…”

“…As underlined by Mahon (2002) and Ahsan and Brandt (2015), these policy and strategies need to be developed with active involvement of producers and all other aquaculture stakeholders.…”