Impact of climate change on food security in Malaysia: economic and policy adjustments for rice industry

Vaghefi, Negin; Shamsudin, Mad Nasir; Radam, Alias; Rahim, Khalid Abdul

doi:10.1080/1943815x.2015.1112292

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“…That is to say, the majority of small farmers in these areas are just slightly above the poverty line and remain vulnerable to changes in farm productivity and income [9]. Hence, the results of this study undoubtedly reflect the importance of location-specific adaptation, which has not been observed in the other previous studies [15,16]. Moreover, location-specific factors [29] such as climate conditions over the next decade will further increase the variability of rice yield among granaries and between cropping seasons.…”

Section: Projection Of Future Yield With Climate Changementioning

confidence: 76%

Impact of Climate Change on Rice Yield in Malaysia: A Panel Data Analysis

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Climate change is a global problem since many countries worldwide are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. Numerous climate models in various studies project a decline in agricultural productivity that will mainly be due to excessive heat in tropical and subtropical regions, especially in Southeast Asia. As a Southeast Asian country, Malaysia is no exception to this problem. Hence, the present study aimed to examine the impact of climate change on rice yields in Malaysia. A panel data approach was adopted using data from 1987 to 2017 on eight granary areas in Peninsular Malaysia. The main objectives were to assess the impact of climate variables (i.e., minimum and maximum temperature and precipitation) on rice yield and the variance of the impact during the main season and off-season. Our regression results indicate that precipitation was not statistically significant in all model specifications for both the main and off-season. While the maximum temperature was found to be negatively associated with yield during the off-season, the minimum temperature showed a positive effect in both cropping seasons. We used the HadGEM3-GC31 N512 resolution model based on the high-emission Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 8.5 scenario (SSPs-8.5) from the High-Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP) of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) to project future climate change in 2030 and 2040. The projected results indicate that rice yield would show a more positive trend by 2040 when compared to the previous decade, ranging from −0.02 to 19.85% during the main season and −2.77 to 7.41% during the off-season. Although rice yield is likely to increase in certain areas, other areas are projected to experience negative effects. Hence, adaptation at the farm level remains crucial, specifically during the off-season, since climate change could widen the gaps in rice yields between cropping seasons and among granary areas.

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Section: Projection Of Future Yield With Climate Changementioning

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“…It has proven that government policy has spurred the innovation in development among small and medium enterprises. Then, [ 75 ] have measured the significant result from the consequences implementation of the government policy, interestingly the authors have proposed two policies (subsidy policy and support policy) should be enforced to avoid adverse effect rather than a single policy that is currently applied.…”

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Modeling Talent Shortage for Entrepreneurship Among Student with Government Policy Support as Mediating Effect: SEM Approach

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The Importance of New Technologies and Entrepreneurship in Business Development: In the Context of Economic Diversity in Develo

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In this study, it tests the government factor as a mediator to see the significant impact of the relationship between talent demand and talent supply towards talent shortage. As currently, the rise of a talent shortage among student as an entrepreneur in acute condition. The nation right now faced increment number unemployment among young graduate. Government has proposed young graduate to be entrepreneurship to beat this issue—however, the entrepreneurial skills among young graduate far below expectation. Do government do not adequately provide enough support for the entrepreneur ecosystem among young graduate to growth as an entrepreneur. Hence this paper, focusing on developing a significant model to beat talent shortage with the perspective of demand and supply. Then, 371 respondents among public universities student by using simple random sampling. Data analysed with IBM-SPSS and IBM-AMOS to develop a model through path analysed. It was found that the government factor provides a significant factor as a mediator and both talent demand and positively significant towards talent shortage. All hypotheses positively supported. This paper significantly impacts to the government, higher education institution, entrepreneur, and student itself with finding presented.

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“…Schreer and Padmanabhan [14], Agarwal [91], and Li et al [32] highlighted the effective application of food policies to strengthen the relationship between the four aspects. The contributions of Vaghefi et al [92], Clapp [93], and Zhan [94] established the importance of encouraging and supporting small producers to incentivize domestic production against foreign products. In this way, Sapozhnikova [95] and Scharf [96] identified the government as an actor that facilitates the conditions for the development of small producers, not only in the economic sphere but also in achieving their organization and connections in the market.…”

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Systemic Design for Food Self-Sufficiency in Urban Areas

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This article adopts a systemic approach to address the problem of the operationalization of relationships between actors conducive to food self-sufficiency in urban areas. Through the use of Social Network Analysis (SNA), the literature on urban agriculture was analyzed, detecting eight key trends and topic areas. This information was used to design a generic recursive organizational structure with the identification of the key roles and functions for management and governance in the multi-level and multi-stakeholder relationships of a sustainable urban self-sufficient food production system, inspired by the principles of complexity management and organizational cybernetics. Methodologically, this is the first application that combines the exploratory capability of SNA and the recursive structure of the Viable System Model (VSM) to propose applicable organizational structures in any urban area, suggesting a new route for the study and application of systemic thinking in the development of urban agriculture schemes. However, due to the conceptual nature of this work, this study opens a discussion on how we can rethink interactions to seek continuous adaptation in food self-sufficiency, provide tools that foster inclusion, and adapt to every context to support the relevant actors and academics in urban agriculture.

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Impact of climate change on food security in Malaysia: economic and policy adjustments for rice industry

Cited by 48 publications

References 18 publications

Impact of Climate Change on Rice Yield in Malaysia: A Panel Data Analysis

Impact of Climate Change on Rice Yield in Malaysia: A Panel Data Analysis

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