Do climate change adaptation practices improve technical efficiency of smallholder farmers? Evidence from Nepal

Khanal, Uttam; Wilson, Clevo; Lee, Boon L.; Hoang, Viet‐Ngu

doi:10.1007/s10584-018-2168-4

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“…There is need to invest in research to produce a new generation of improved varieties that are tolerant to drought, resistant to pests, and nutrition-efficient [24]. Therefore, if appropriate actions are not put in place to reduce the negative effects of climate change, the danger of food insecurity is expected to increase [36]. To manage the current climate change and for future adaptation to these variations, there is need for maize varieties that are tolerant to drought, heat and water logging and are resistant to diseases and pests and insects, and to effectively contribute to mitigating climate change, practicing conservation agriculture and precision agriculture would be helpful [13].…”

Section: Adaptation To Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change Impacts on Sustainable Maize Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

Mulungu¹,

Ng’ombe²

2020

Maize - Production and Use

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Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the commonly grown grain crops and remains a source of staple food and food security for most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). But climate change threatens agricultural potential in SSA thereby risking food security especially that most maize production is rain-fed in these countries. Thus, numerous studies have examined impacts of climate change on maize production and productivity resulting in several adaption strategies being promoted to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. But to the best of our knowledge, there has not been any studies in literature that provide a review of impacts of climate change on maize production and productivity in SSA. This chapter therefore provides a review of empirical climate change impacts on maize production and its productivity in SSA. We chose SSA because most countries in SSA are underdeveloped and therefore more vulnerable to climate change effects. This is important because this review will provide an easier access of such results for both scholars and policy makers in search of empirical impacts of climate change on maize production and productivity in SSA.

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Section: Adaptation To Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change Impacts on Sustainable Maize Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

Mulungu¹,

Ng’ombe²

2020

Maize - Production and Use

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“…Most farm households in developing countries engage in off-farm activities and this was found significant in driving farm efficiencies through enhancing the purchase of improved technologies (Oseni and Winters 2009;Ruben 2001). Also, households adopting various climate change adaptation practices were found to be 13% more technically efficient (Khanal et al 2018). Beyond owning resources, social factors surrounding ownership can also be a determining factor.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria

Oyetunde-Usman

Olagunju

2019

Economies

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The challenge of food security in Nigeria hinges on several factors of which poor technical efficiency is key. Using a stochastic frontier framework, we estimated the technical efficiency of agricultural households in Nigeria and tested for the significance of mean technical efficiency of food-secure and food-insecure agricultural households. We further assessed the determinants of agricultural households’ inefficiencies within the stochastic frontier model and adopted a standard probit model to assess the determinants of households’ food security status. The results of our analyses revealed that; on the overall, the agricultural households had a mean technical efficiency of 52%, suggesting that agricultural households have the tendency of improving their technical efficiency by 48% using the available resource more efficiently. We found that households that are food-secure are more technically efficient than food in-secure households and this was significant at one-percent. Our results provide useful insights into the role of land size and number of assets as determinants of agricultural households’ food security and technical efficiency status.

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“…The implementation of adaptation practices at the farm level is an effective way to reduce the impacts of CC and to increase agricultural productivity. For example, in Nepal, small-holders adopting a larger number of adaptation practices were on average 13% more efficient than those adopting fewer practices [120]. Also, in Central Chile, adaptation practices, in particular improvements in irrigation, had positive effects on productivity [121].…”

Section: Economic and Social Impact And Farmer Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies of Agriculture in Mediterranean-Climate Regions (MCRs)

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The world’s five Mediterranean-climate regions (MCRs) share unique climatic regimes of mild, wet winters and warm and dry summers. Agriculture in these regions is threatened by increases in the occurrence of drought and high temperature events associated with climate change (CC). In this review we analyze what would be the effects of CC on crops (including orchards and vineyards), how crops and cropping and farming systems could adapt to CC, and what are the social and economic impacts, as well as the strategies used by producers to adapt to CC. In rainfed areas, water deficit occurs mostly during the flowering and grain filling stages (terminal drought stress), which has large detrimental effects on the productivity of crops. Orchards and vineyards, which are mostly cultivated in irrigated areas, will also be vulnerable to water deficit due to a reduction in water available for irrigation and an increase in evapotranspiration. Adaptation of agriculture to CC in MCRs requires integrated strategies that encompass different levels of organization: the crop (including orchards and vineyards), the cropping system (sequence of crops and management techniques used on a particular agricultural field) and the farming system, which includes the farmer.

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Do climate change adaptation practices improve technical efficiency of smallholder farmers? Evidence from Nepal

Cited by 45 publications

References 32 publications

Climate Change Impacts on Sustainable Maize Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

Climate Change Impacts on Sustainable Maize Production in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

Determinants of Food Security and Technical Efficiency among Agricultural Households in Nigeria

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies of Agriculture in Mediterranean-Climate Regions (MCRs)

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