Farmer’s perception of climate change and responsive strategies in three selected provinces of South Africa

Elum, Zelda Anne; Modise, David M.; Marr, Ana

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2016.11.001

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“…This deduction is also consistent with Elum et al (2017), who examined how farmers' perceptions of climate change formed their adaptation strategies. They also examined the trend in climate parameters and the constraints on farmers.…”

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Climate change and financing adaptation by farmers in northern Nigeria

Abraham¹,

Fonta²

2018

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This paper examines farmers' perceptions of their exposure to climate change in rural northern Nigeria. It also examines whether there is a significant relationship between the exposure of farmers to climate change and their need for financial access as an adaptation strategy. Questionnaires were administered to 320 respondents in rural communities in northern Nigeria. Descriptive analysis shows that rural farmers are affected by climate change through increased temperature, prolonged dry seasons, floods, and drought, which lead to low harvest and, in turn, low income. An estimate from a non-parametric test also shows a significant relationship between farmers' perceived exposure to climate change and their need for credit. Although the Spearman correlation results show a 63% association between exposure to climate change and the need for finance, 96% of those seeking credit to mitigate these impacts would be unable to do so due to financial exclusiveness. The paper recommends that the Central Bank of Nigeria should ensure that microfinance institutions refocus their products/services to those who need them the most in order to enhance access to financial resources and enable farmers to build resilience that will maximize post-harvest gains. Lastly, considering that climate change is a global phenomenon with local effects, perhaps the international community could support lending to smallholder farmers through central banks by insuring the loans that banks give to farmers towards financing climate change adaptation strategies.

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Climate change and financing adaptation by farmers in northern Nigeria

Abraham¹,

Fonta²

2018

Financ Innov

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“…To date, most studies investigating climate change vulnerability and impacts in agricultural production systems have focused on the effects of climate change at the farm level and on farmers' risk perceptions and adaptive capacity (Ali & Erestein, 2017;Elum, Modise, & Marr, 2017;Knudson, 2015;Rhiney, Campbell, & Barker, 2015;Tripathi & Mishra, 2017). The approach presented here complements these efforts by providing a more comprehensive account of climate change challenges across agricultural value chain systems.…”

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A relational view of climate adaptation in the private sector: How do value chain interactions shape business perceptions of climate risk and adaptive behaviours?

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Studies exploring climate change adaptation in the private sector have seldom investigated the effect of business network interactions on climate vulnerability and adaptation outcomes. This paper proposes a novel theoretical framework to explore how business-network dynamics affect risk perceptions and adaptive behaviours in business firms. The framework is empirically grounded in a comparative analysis of business-network dynamics from three agricultural value chains in Jamaica that are vulnerable to climate change impacts. The results illustrate how the exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity of value chain actors are influenced by business interdependencies and interfirm relationships. We find that the level of formality of business exchanges (contractual or noncontractual), the level of resource interdependency, and the ability to diversify access channels to critical resources can influence the propagation of climate-related risks and influence actors' exposure and sensitivity to those risks. The study also offers evidence of the role played by bonding and bridging relational ties on adaptive capacity. The framework and findings provide a foundation for a new research agenda exploring a relational view of firm adaptation strategy in response to climate risks.

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“…Al igual que algunos estudios realizados en contextos de pobreza (Echeveri, 2010;Forero et al, 2014;Elum et al, 2017) en las localidades estudiadas de la meseta comiteca, el acercamiento a través del abordaje de las percepciones permite involucrar realidades locales y analizar posibilidades de llevar a cabo estrategias de adaptación y resiliencia. No se registra un concepto de cambio climático global en las experiencias cotidianas de los agricultores, sin embargo, perciben los cambios climáticos, principalmente la sequía, ya que dependen de sus cultivos para el autoconsumo y comercializar una pequeña parte para adquirir otros alimentos de la dieta y cubrir el pago de servicios públicos.…”

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“…En una revisión de América Latina de 1997 a 2012 (Forero, Hernández, Zafra, 2014), encontraron que las percepciones de las comunidades sobre el cambio climático se relacionan con la variabilidad climática, el incremento de temperatura, el cambio en la precipitación y el cambio en los hábitos culturales. Aunque existen una cantidad considerable de artículos sobre percepciones del cambio climático (Forero et al, 2014) y su relación con la salud (Bell, 2013), son pocos los estudios que toman en cuenta las percepciones de la seguridad alimentaria y disponibilidad de alimentos desde los sujetos sociales (Bekelman, Santamaría Ulloa, Dufour, Dengo, 2016;Elum, Modise, Marr, 2017), las estrategias e intervenciones llevadas a cabo en comunidades rurales, así como las condiciones para la participación tomando en cuenta el contexto y problemáticas locales de la producción de alimentos relacionados al cambio climático (Bell, 2013;Debela, Mohammed, Bridle, Corkrey y McNeil, 2015).…”

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