Development Challenges in the Age of Climate Change: The Case of Sidama

Hameso, Seyoum

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“…The other dominant land use land cover type is the scattered trees. They are found to be mixed with farmland and those planted by the dwellers [19].…”

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Determinants of improved cookstove adoption and its benefits Ethiopia

Ganewo,

Kare,

Mulugeta

et al. 2023

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Background In Ethiopia's rural areas, biomass is the most prevalent energy source for lighting and cooking. Open fires and conventional, inefficient stoves are used to convert energy, which lowers the quality of life owing to the health effects of smoking and uses a lot of wood. As a result, healthcare expenditures go up, and cutting down trees contributes to climate change. Improved cooking stoves (ICS) have been distributed through youth cooperatives in the study region to improve the current subpar energy conversion technology. Methods Data collected from 344 households were selected using simple random and the required data were collected using a questionnaire. The interview schedule was also used to triangulate the data collected from primary households. The collected data were analyzed using both descriptive and econometric models. Results The findings of the study showed that only 22.97% of the interview households adopted the improved cook stoves whereas the vast majority (67.03%) still rely on traditional stoves that are highly inefficient. The prevalence of adoption of ICS was found to be 22.97% which is very low. The positive and significant variables in predicting the adoption of ICS were the educational level of the household head (OR 1.23; CI at 95% 0.029–0.040), access to the improved stove (OR 5.88; CI at 95% 1.05–2.48), affordability (OR 2.31; CI at 95% 0.11–1.56) and demonstration about the stove (OR 6.74; CI at 95% 1.13–2.68). Family size (OR 0.74; CI at 95% -0.45-0.12) and Availability of firewood (OR 0.27; CI at 95% -2.00-.56) significantly and negatively affected the adoption of the ICS. Conclusions The low adoption levels of ICS were found in the study area. Socio-economic, institutional, financial, and resource endowments have triggered this. Therefore, it is recommended that increasing access to improved stoves, diversifying income sources, creating awareness about ICS health benefits, and climate changes, and providing reasonable prices will facilitate its adoption.

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“…The other dominant land use land cover type is the scattered trees. They are found to be mixed with farmland and those planted by the dwellers [19].…”

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“…The main livestock species are cattle, goats, sheep, and poultry. Major cash crops are maize, haricot bean, potato, green paper [19]. The Bilate Zuria District has an estimated total population of 211,973 of these 107342 are men and 104541 women.…”

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Determinants of improved cookstove adoption and its benefits Ethiopia

Ganewo,

Kare,

Mulugeta

et al. 2023

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“…Climate change is now more a reality [1] than a theory with a multiple implications on livelihood, health, and wealth of people across the globe [2]. According to the World Bank ( [3], Xiii), as cited in Hameso [4], as the global climate is changed and the Earth is warmed, the rainfall pattern tends to shifts then by creating major climate extremes such as droughts, floods, and forest fires which collectively deny lives and livelihoods of millions. Poor people in Asia, Africa, and Latin America face prospects of tragic crop failure, agricultural productivity and, consequently, there happened increasing hunger, malnutrition, and disease [5].…”

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Climate Change in Ethiopia: Implication on Human Capital in Rural Community - Case Study of Bilate Basin Agro-Pastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama

Worana¹,

Atsimegiorgis²

2022

The Nature, Causes, Effects and Mitigation of Climate Change on the Environment

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The objective of this study was to examine the trends of climate change and its subsequent impact on human capital development under the reference of human health and education of rural community of drought prone areas in Western Sidama (6.36°–7.14°N Latitude and 38.01°–38.56°E) of Ethiopia. Tropical Application of Metrology using SATellite (TAMSAT) data of both monthly rainfall and temperature was collected from Ethiopian National Meteorological Agency (NMA) for the period of 1987–2017. Data on perceived climate change; change driven impacts people experienced mainly on their health and education and copying or/and adaptation strategies affected community practiced was collected by employing both survey and participatory rural appraisal (PRA) techniques. In order to collect data from the household level, survey was employed for 400 households who were systematically sampled from 245,592 households of five drought prone administrative districts whereas PRA was employed to collect community level data. Mann–KENDALL TEST AND SEN’S SLOPE ESTIMATES (MAKESENS) and descriptive statistics were employed to analyze these data. The analysis result shows that there is increasing and decreasing trends of both temperature and rainfall, respectively. And increasing trend is statistically significant for temperature (α = 0.05; N = 31). Consequently, this change of climate variables has brought negative impacts on human capital mainly on health and education through various paths. Physiological inconvenience, prevalence of various diseases, and malnutrition were the main paths through which climate change impacts on human health were seen whereas students’ failure in standard exam attributed to a roll over impacts of climate change since early child hood, increasing school dropout rate and decreasing demand of the households to family education mainly owing to diminish in agricultural yields were the education dimension impacts of change in climate variables. Though a temporary migration to less stress adjacent areas, receiving aids and use of health extension services were a household level copying mechanisms observed, the first two were seen to reproduce unintended negative effects such as interethnic conflicts, forcing children to drop the school and aid dependency syndrome among receivers that the household themselves, aid organizations and government should work in consortium on building resilience both at household and community levels.

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“…The same is true for smallholder farmers of Abeshege woreda, where this study has been conducted. In the past few decades, rainfall variability and other meteorological shocks greatly affect coffee production [3]. In Abeshege, woreda rainfall has been declining in recent years and this has affected crop and livestock production.…”

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Climate Variability and Determinants of its Adaptation Strategies; the Case of Coffee (Coffea arabica) Producer Farmers at Abeshege Woreda, Ethiopia

Dula

2018

ARTOAJ

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The share of agriculture in the Gross Domestic Products (GDP) of Ethiopia is very significant. Although agriculture is undeniably a key economic sector in Ethiopia, it is the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate variability. An attempt to reduce the impacts of climate-related problems requires appropriate policy responses. A number of studies on climate variability adaptation recognize the importance of agroecologically based studies for designing context-specific policies and programs to climate variability adaptation. Therefore, this study was carried out with objectives of examining the variations of climate variability and its determinants of farmers' decision to undertake adaptation measures to climate variability using a case study in Abeshege woreda. The primary data was collected from 145 sample households using a survey questionnaire and was analyzed using both descriptive statistics and econometric methods. The logit model was used to identify the determinants of climate variability adaptation decision. The result of the logit regression model shows that perception, education level, farm size, access to credit service and total family size are among the factors which are positively and significantly affecting the farmers' adaptation decision. Besides, the results of linear regression show that the amount of rainfall received and temperature significantly affect coffee production in the study area. Therefore, first should recognize the farmers' preferences for climate variability adaptation strategies to design and implement interventions that address capacity, technology and information needs of households experiencing different climatic problems..

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Development Challenges in the Age of Climate Change: The Case of Sidama

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

Determinants of improved cookstove adoption and its benefits Ethiopia

Determinants of improved cookstove adoption and its benefits Ethiopia

Climate Change in Ethiopia: Implication on Human Capital in Rural Community - Case Study of Bilate Basin Agro-Pastoral Livelihood Zone of Sidama

Climate Variability and Determinants of its Adaptation Strategies; the Case of Coffee (Coffea arabica) Producer Farmers at Abeshege Woreda, Ethiopia

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