Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Deressa, Temesgen; Hassan, Rashid M.; Ringler, Claudia; Alemu, Tekie; Yesuf, Mahmud

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2009.01.002

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“…Prior to this study it was expected that the sign of the variable family size would have a positive sign, the logic being that large family size makes available more labor which can actively engage in work, better facilitating the adoption of adaptive measures against climate change effects, ceteris paribus. This assumption was in line with the results of similar work on climate change adaptation strategies done by Deressa et al (2008Deressa et al ( , 2009 [20,[46][47][48].…”

Section: Econometric Estimation Of Factors Affecting the Farmers' Adasupporting

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“…Therefore, Linear Probability Model (LPM) and probit models were rejected in favor of a logit model formulation. This logit model was used to identify the socio-economic factors affecting the farmers' adoption of adaptive strategies, using the functional form of logit model expressed by Gujrati [20] as:…”

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“…Recently, a number of varietals adapted for salinity and drought tolerance have been used for planting, but it is not widespread throughout the country [17]. Farmers' responses to climate change effects, as well as use of adaptation strategies, are influenced by their socio-economic characteristics, with knowledge of the farmers being the most influential [20].…”

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Factors Affecting Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change Effects: A Farm Level Study in Bangladesh

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Bokelmann

Entsminger

2014

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Offering a case study of coastal Bangladesh, this study examines the adaptation of agriculturalists to degrading environmental conditions likely to be caused or exacerbated under global climate change. It examines four central components: (1) the rate of self-reported adoption of adaptive mechanisms (coping strategies) as a result of changes in climate; (2) ranking the potential coping strategies based on their perceived importance to agricultural enterprises; (3) identification the socio-economic factors associated with adoption of coping strategies, and (4) ranking potential constraints to adoption of coping strategies based on farmers' reporting on the degree to which they face these constraints. As a preliminary matter, this paper also reports on the perceptions of farmers in the study about their experiences with climatic change. The research area is comprised of three villages in the coastal region (Sathkhira district), a geographic region which climate change literature has highlighted as prone to accelerated degradation. One-hundred (100) farmers participated in the project's survey, from which the data was used to calculate weighted indexes for rankings and to perform logistic regression. The rankings, model results, and descriptive OPEN ACCESSClimate 2014, 2 224 statistics, are reported here. Results showed that a majority of the farmers self-identified as having engaged in adaptive behavior. Out of 14 adaptation strategies, irrigation ranked first among farm adaptive measures, while crop insurance has ranked as least utilized. The logit model explained that out of eight factors surveyed, age, education, family size, farm size, family income, and involvement in cooperatives were significantly related to self-reported adaptation. Despite different support and technological interventions being available, lack of available water, shortage of cultivable land, and unpredictable weather ranked highest as the respondent group's constraints to coping with environmental degradation and change effects. These results provide policy makers and development service providers with important insight, which can be used to better target interventions which build promote or facilitate the adoption of coping mechanisms with potential to build resiliency to changing climate and resulting environmental impacts.

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“…For example, behavioural factors such as risk perception, as well as socio-economic characteristics such as education, wealth, age and gender are all argued to shape choice of coping strategy (Grothmann and Patt 2005;Deressa et al 2009;Below et al 2012;Hisali et al 2011). Whilst these factors are widely acknowledged, and the range of coping strategies used by farmers in Africa widely known (see for example Below et al 2010), there is still a need to focus on and understand how these factors drive the adoption of particular strategies depending on the particular hazard experienced.…”

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Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

Berman

Quinn

Paavola

2014

Climate and Development

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This paper investigates what drives household coping strategies in rural Uganda under different climatic hazards. Rural households in sub-Saharan Africa draw on various coping strategies to reduce the impact of climatic hazards on their livelihoods. Research to date provides only limited understanding of how the coping strategy portfolio of changes depending on the climatic stress. Using empirical data from Uganda, this research contributes to this gap by 1) exploring how household coping strategy relates to household characteristics and livelihood activity;and 2) how these coping strategies vary depending on the hazard. Coping strategy is found to be hazard specific for households that lack market-orientated activities, whereas those with marketaccess rely on economic activities regardless of hazard. The implications that choice of coping strategy has on future adaptation are discussed. To maintain and improve the livelihoods and coping strategies of those most vulnerable to climatic variability and change, policies that advocate diversification away from a sole reliance on customary activities need to recognise the level and opportunity for market-based activities. These interventions must account for different sensitivities to different hazards as well as the homogeneity of the community in order to effectively support rural communities to cope with climate variability.

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“…Below et al (2010) showed that improving rural transportation, infrastructure, weather forecasts, investment in public health care and policies that improve local governance and coordinate donor activities can increase adaptive capacity for African farmers. Recent literature on farmers' behaviour in relation to climate change and variability shows that age, education, household size and income are important determinants of adaptation (Bryan et al 2013;Deressa et al 2009;Hisali et al 2011). The importance of institutions and entitlements (such as access to common property resources) enabling households to adapt has received less attention .…”

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Adaptation of agriculture to climate change in semi-arid Borena, Ethiopia

Ng’ang’a

Wijk

Rufino³

2016

Reg Environ Change

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Livestock production is very risky due to climate variability in semi-arid Sub-Saharan Africa. Using data collected from 400 households in the Borena zone of the Oromia Region, we explored what drives adoption of agricultural practices that can decrease the vulnerability of agro-pastoralists to climate change. Households with more adaptive capacity adopted a larger number of practices. The households' adaptive capacity was stronger when the quality of local institutions was high. However, adaptive capacity had less explanatory power in explaining adoption of adaptation options than household socio-economic characteristics, suggesting that aggregating information into one indicator of adaptive capacity for site-specific studies may not help to explain the adoption behaviour of households. Strong local institutions lead to changes in key household-level characteristics (like membership to community groups, years lived in a village, access to credit, financial savings and crop income) which positively affect adoption of agricultural practices. In addition, better local institutions were also positively related to adoption of livestock-related adaptation practices. Poor access to a tarmac road was positively related to intensification and diversification of crop production, whereas it was negatively related to the intensification of livestock production, an important activity for generating cash in the region. Our findings suggest that better local institutions lead to changes in household characteristics, which positively affect adoption of adaptation practices, suggesting that policies should aim to strengthen local institutions.

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Determinants of farmers’ choice of adaptation methods to climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Cited by 1,487 publications

References 21 publications

Factors Affecting Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change Effects: A Farm Level Study in Bangladesh

Factors Affecting Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change Effects: A Farm Level Study in Bangladesh

Identifying drivers of household coping strategies to multiple climatic hazards in Western Uganda: implications for adapting to future climate change

Adaptation of agriculture to climate change in semi-arid Borena, Ethiopia

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