Determinants of adaptation choices to climate change by sheep and goat farmers in Northern Ethiopia: the case of Southern and Central Tigray, Ethiopia

Feleke, Fikeremaryam Birara; Berhe, Melaku; Gebru, Getachew; Hoag, Dana L.

doi:10.1186/s40064-016-3042-3

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“…This is not unique to the study area. In Northern Ethiopia it is considered that climate change is indeed occurring, and changes in temperature and precipitation are mentioned as the main parameters (Feleke et al, 2016). Elsewhere in developing countries, rainfall distribution is the most critical factor affecting the productivity of farmers who largely depend on rain-fed agriculture (Alam et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…No region or country is immune to its impacts; however, the extent of vulnerability differs widely. Climate change involves long-term change and significant variation in temperature, precipitation, and wind pattern (IPCC 2007;Feleke, et al, 2016;Yéo et al, 2016Yéo et al, , 2016. Mounting surface temperature and global sea levels in the last few decades are among the major aspects of climate change (Rahmstorf, Foster, & Cahill, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In Ethiopia, rain-fed agriculture is the basic means of living; it supports the livelihood of more than 80% of the overall population. The sector contributes to 49% of Ethiopian GDP (Gross Domestic Product), and it contributes to more than 80% of the foreign exchange (Deressa et al, 2009;Feleke et al, 2016;Temesgen, Yehualashet, & Rajan, 2014). Recurrent drought appeared as the most critical climate induced hazard which resulted in a loss of production and ultimately impinged the national economy (Wako, Tadesse, & Angassa, 2017).…”

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Determinants of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation strategies: An Application of Protection Motivation Theory

Regasa

Akirso

2019

Rural Sustainability Research

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Climate change is an inevitable global challenge of the 21st century. For developing countries like Ethiopia, it intensifies existing challenges towards ensuring sustainable development. Adopting the protection motivation theory, this study examined factors affecting the practice of climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies among farmers. The study employed a mixed research approach to assess the subjective understanding of farmers about climate change threats and identify factors determining their responses to climate change effects. Qualitative data were collected using focus group discussions and interviews. Quantitative information was gathered using semi-structured survey from 296 randomly selected farmers. Qualitative data was dominantly analyzed using content analysis, while descriptive and inferential statistics were applied to analyze quantitative data. Almost all respondents (97%) perceived that climate change was occurring and threatening their wellbeing. Dwindling precipitation, increasing temperature and occurrence of human and animal disease were perceived to represent climate change effects. From nationally initiated strategies, farmers were found to largely practice soil and water conservation, which they perceived as less costly and compatible to local knowledge. The result of binary logistic regression revealed that perceived severity of climate change, perceived susceptibility to climate change threat, perceived own ability to respond, response efficacy, and cost of practices predicted farmers’ motivation to practice climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. Thus, building a resilient system should go beyond sensitizing climate response mechanisms. Policies should focus on human capital development and economic empowerment which would enable farmers to pursue context-specific adaptation and mitigation strategies, thereby maintaining a sustainable livelihood.

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Determinants of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation strategies: An Application of Protection Motivation Theory

Regasa

Akirso

2019

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“…This implies that increased access to extension sources facilitates the farmers' practice and adjustment to drought coping strategies, within the area of study. According to [64], farmers exposed to climate information through extension media are more likely to adapt coping strategies than others.…”

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Assessing Coping Strategies in Response to Drought: A Micro Level Study in the North-West Region of Bangladesh

Mardy

Uddin

Sarker

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Drought is an extreme and frequent event in the northwest region of Bangladesh and it adversely affects the livelihood of the farming community. Identifying the coping strategies that farmers use in the face of drought is crucial in order to understand how farmers minimize the effects of drought on their production, especially in the face of climatic changes that may impact the occurrence of extreme weather events. The purpose of this study was to assess farmers' coping strategies for droughts by identifying which strategies are used and the influencing factors. A mixed methods approach using qualitative and quantitative data was employed. Preliminary data were collected using structured interviews and focus group discussions in which the findings were triangulated in order to design a questionnaire. The study respondents were 100 farmers operating in northwest Bangladesh. The findings were analyzed using descriptive statistics, coefficient of correlation, multiple linear and step-wise regressions. The results reveal that the respondents have limited drought coping strategies, even though the region is prone to frequent droughts. Among the fourteen identified drought coping strategies, the use of deep tube wells for irrigation water was the most widely reported and the farmers perceived it as the most important coping strategy. Shallow tube wells closely followed as the second most commonly used coping strategy reported by the respondents. Among the identified coping strategies, the least practiced was the use of treadle pumps. The findings from the study showed that age, education, farm size, annual family income, extension media contact, and organization participation were significantly associated with the choice of coping strategy that the farmers employed. Additionally, farm size, age, and education were identified as influential factors that affected the farmers' choice of which drought coping strategies to use. The study identified important issues for policy makers engaged with governmental programs that aim to enhance the farmers' drought coping mechanisms. The methods employed and the results of this study could be usefully applied in other districts of Bangladesh, or other areas of the world suffering from the negative effects of drought on agricultural production.

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“…The area agroecological setting was lowland, and receives a bimodal type of rainfall with a short rainy season, that often runs from June to September. The study area receives 350 to 650 mm annual rainfall and temperature with 15 to 35°C (Feleke et al, 2016).…”

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Indigenous knowledge based identification of medicinal plants in Central Zone of Tigray, North Ethiopia

Abrha¹,

Hintsa²,

Gebremedhin³

2018

Int. J. Biodivers. Conserv.

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There are many traditional medicine practitioners in every corner of the world, which can be grouped into spiritual healers and herbalists. Both groups do not tell to others about medicinal plants sometimes even to their descendants. This may have many different reasons, some say the medicine becomes functional if it is used in secret and some do not tell others fearing for competition of market as well as the medicinal plants because their abundance is mostly limited due to over exploitation. This study was conducted in the central zone of Tigray in specific sites called Tanqua-Abergelle, KolaTembien and Weri-Leke with the objective of identifying of medicinal plants based on indigenous knowledge. Purposive sampling was used for respondent selection and semi-structured interviews were employed. Then, the collected data were subjected to descriptive statistical method such as percentage and frequency which was employed to analyze and summarize the data on medicinal plants. From the identified medicinal plants, 92 plant species were used to cure human disease and 29 species for animal diseases and another 8 species were used to treat both human and livestock diseases. Even though medicinal plants are very crucial particularly for the people who dwell in remote and rural areas, some medicinal plants are being endangered due to low awareness on management of these plants. Hence, policy makers and other concerned bodies should give emphasis on conservation of medicinal plants.

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Determinants of adaptation choices to climate change by sheep and goat farmers in Northern Ethiopia: the case of Southern and Central Tigray, Ethiopia

Cited by 71 publications

References 22 publications

Determinants of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation strategies: An Application of Protection Motivation Theory

Determinants of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation strategies: An Application of Protection Motivation Theory

Assessing Coping Strategies in Response to Drought: A Micro Level Study in the North-West Region of Bangladesh

Indigenous knowledge based identification of medicinal plants in Central Zone of Tigray, North Ethiopia

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