Farm households’ risk perception, attitude and adaptation strategies in dealing with climate change: Promise and perils from rural Pakistan

Khan, Imran; Lei, Hongdou; Shah, Ismail; Ali, Irfan; Khan, Inayat; Ihsan, Muhammad; Huo, Xuexi; Javed, Tehseen

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104395

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“…On the other hand, farms are located in a long way from main markets. Farmers also have less access to extension agents and to updated information on climatic risk [47] and biological risk. Farmhouses with access to agricultural credit perceive market risk and biological risk to be major sources of risks [48].…”

Section: Factors Affecting Risk Perceptionsmentioning

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Factors Influencing Rice Farmers’ Risk Attitudes and Perceptions in Bangladesh amid Environmental and Climatic Issues

Islam¹,

Rahman²,

Sarker³

et al. 2020

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Rice farmers in Bangladesh face various environmental, climatic and market price-related risks. Choices of various operational tactics used for farm management are mostly influenced by farmers' risk perception and attitude. This study intends to discover the influencing factors of a farmer on the risk associated with environmental and climatic issues. This study quantifies the risk perceptions of rice farmers, their perceived behavior, and various associated underlying factors using a crosssectional dataset on 600 rice farmers from three major rice-growing districts in Bangladesh. Equally, Likely Certainty Equivalent approach has been used to rank the farmers' perceptions of three major risk dimensions such as the risk of market price fluctuation, the risk from various natural hazards, and risk of pest and disease. Probit regression is also used to discern the underlying factors affecting risk attitudes and perceptions. The results show that farmers' age, total family income, distance from the farm gate to the main market, savings, agricultural credit, off-farm income, access to information, and frequent contact with extension officers are significant determinants that affect farmers' risk attitudes and perceptions. This study provides in-depth insights for farmers, extension service providers, and agricultural planners on the real situation of farmers in developing countries, particularly those where crop insurance is still uncommon.

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Factors Influencing Rice Farmers’ Risk Attitudes and Perceptions in Bangladesh amid Environmental and Climatic Issues

Islam¹,

Rahman²,

Sarker³

et al. 2020

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…To attain a sustainable level of output, farmers are expected to take adaptation measures to cope with risks posed by climate change on their productive activities (Pandey et al, 2017;Ojo and Baiyegunhi, 2020a). As posited by Stringer et al (2020) and Ojo and Baiyegunhi, (2020b), there are several types of adaptation strategies available to different farmers, with the level of perception of climate change determining the type and extent to which the strategies are employed (Hasan & Kumar, 2019;Khan et al, 2020;Ojo and Baiyegunhi, 2020a). As opined by Bryan et al (2013), adaptation to climate change at the farm level includes many possible responses, such as changes in crop management practices (e.g.…”

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Understanding the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder maize farmers in South-west, Nigeria

Adeagbo

Ojo

Adetoro

2021

Heliyon

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Climate is one of the most important factors in agricultural productivity, which could directly or indirectly influence productivity since the climate is linked to physiological processes. It is, therefore, essential to understanding the various strategies used by farmers to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change and the factors that influence maize farmers' adoption and intensity of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder maize farmers in South-west Nigeria. In all, a sample of three hundred and thirty (311) smallholder maize farmers were interviewed. A double-hurdle count data model was employed to estimate the factors influencing farmers' adoption of adaptation strategies while accounting for selection bias with the plugging of inverse mill ratio (IMR) as a regressor. Significant variables such as household size, depreciation ratio, frequency of extension visits, access to extension, and non-farm income were factors influencing the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among maize farmers. Age of the respondent, age square, household size, farm-based organization (FBO), non-farm income, climate information, access to credit, farmers residing in Osun State (location_Osun), distance to market significantly influenced the intensity of climate change adaptation strategies. This study, therefore, concluded that farm-level policy efforts that aim to improve rural development should focus on farmers’ membership in FBO, increase the visits of extension agents, encourage non-farm income and access to climate change information, particularly during the off-cropping season. Policies and investment strategies of the government should be geared towards supporting improved extension service, providing on-farm demonstration training, and disseminating information about climate change adaptation strategies, particularly for smallholder farmers in Nigeria.

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“…Large, medium and small are three groups in which farmers to be categorized. In the scenario of farmers total sample size majority of farmer 74.37% have high risk perception of flood disasters whereas almost ¼ of farmers 25.63% do not consider the flood as major risk to their crops and fields (Khan et al, 2020). Majority in all categorized farmers groups small (73.89%), medium (76.85%) and large farmer (71.87%) have higher risk perception of flood whereas the limited small (26.11%) medium (23.15%) and large (28.13%) group farmer have lower risk perception of flood hazards in this study area.…”

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“…In Pakistan, agriculture is consider one of the major sector of economy due to significant contribution as employing 45% labor force of country and sharing 26% GDP of economy (Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS), 2020) yet agriculture is dealing with some erratic and uncertain climatic circumstances such as heavy rainfall and increasing temperature (Azam- . Agriculture in Pakistan is prominently induced by climate based natural hazards drought, heavy rains, floods and other natural disasters (Khan et al, 2020;Ahmad et al, 2019). In agricultural production, climate variation played severe role through extreme weather scenario in Pakistan such as hailstorms, droughts, cyclones, heavy rains and floods which negatively affected farm production of the country (Saqib et al, 2016;Arora, 2019).…”

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Flood Hazards and Farm Based Agricultural Production Risks Management Practices in Flood Prone Areas in Punjab, Pakistan

Ahmad

Afzal

2021

Preprint

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Climate induced disasters more specifically the floods have caused severe damages to agriculture sector in Pakistan. These climatic risks have constrained farming community to adopt numerous risk management strategies to overcoming such risks. This research work attempted to examine the association of risk management tools with farmer’s perception of risk, risk averse attitude and various socioeconomic factors. The study employed the sample data of 398 farmers from flood prone two districts of Punjab, Pakistan. To investigate the association of dependent and independent variables this study used the multivariate probit model. Results of the study illustrated as heavy rains and floods consider not significant source of risk for large farmers in the study area while for small farmer these indicated as high risks as most of small farmers were more risk averse. Estimates of multivariate probit model interpreted as age of farmer, heavy rains risk perception and landholding size were positively relationship with risk management tool of depletion of assets. Farmers education, off-farm income, age and risk averse attitude of farmer were positive whereas experience of farming were negatively linked with reduction of consumption. Furthermore, experience of farming, risk averse attitude, heavy rains and floods risk perception were positively association with diversification adoption. Flood prone farming community of the study area is more vulnerable to these climatic risks and also relying traditional strategies for risk management. There is need of some specific agriculture base measure such as crop insurance, extending formal credit and flood base measure as pre-flood warning system, flood rescue management and post flood rehabilitation to overcome these climatic risks.

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Farm households’ risk perception, attitude and adaptation strategies in dealing with climate change: Promise and perils from rural Pakistan

Cited by 159 publications

References 35 publications

Factors Influencing Rice Farmers’ Risk Attitudes and Perceptions in Bangladesh amid Environmental and Climatic Issues

Factors Influencing Rice Farmers’ Risk Attitudes and Perceptions in Bangladesh amid Environmental and Climatic Issues

Understanding the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder maize farmers in South-west, Nigeria

Flood Hazards and Farm Based Agricultural Production Risks Management Practices in Flood Prone Areas in Punjab, Pakistan

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