Non-cognitive skills and climate change adaptation: empirical evidence from Ghana’s pineapple farmers

Wuepper, David; Zilberman, David; Sauer, Johannes

doi:10.1080/17565529.2019.1607240

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“…The protection motivation theory (PMT) is based on the seminal work of Rogers (1975Rogers ( , 1983 and is delimited along cognitive and physiological constructions. It is grounded in health psychology but is meanwhile increasingly being used to explain protective behavior in the presence of natural hazards (Mertens et al 2018;Wuepper et al 2020). It has many points of contact with the first three theoretical paradigms discussed above: the mental models, the psychometric paradigm, and the orienting dispositions such as affects and worldviews.…”

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The Perception of Flood Risks: A Case Study of Babessi in Rural Cameroon

Buchenrieder

Brandl

Balgah

2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Although risk perception of natural hazards has been identified as an important determinant for sound policy design, there is limited empirical research on it in developing countries. This article narrows the empirical literature gap. It draws from Babessi, a rural town in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. Babessi was hit by a severe flash flood in 2012. The cross-disciplinary lens applied here deciphers the complexity arising from flood hazards, often embedded in contexts characterized by poverty, a state that is constrained in disaster relief, and market-based solutions being absent. Primary data were collected via snowball sampling. Multinomial logistic regression analysis suggests that individuals with leadership functions, for example, heads of households, perceive flood risk higher, probably due to their role as household providers. We found that risk perception is linked to location, which in turn is associated with religious affiliation. Christians perceive floods riskier than Muslims because the former traditionally reside at the foot of hills and the latter uphill; rendering Muslims less exposed and eventually less affected by floods. Finally, public disaster relief appears to have built up trust and subsequently reduced risk perception, even if some victims remained skeptical of state disaster relief. This indicates strong potential benefits of public transfers for flood risk management in developing countries.

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Section: Protection Motivation Theory and Risk Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Perception of Flood Risks: A Case Study of Babessi in Rural Cameroon

Buchenrieder

Brandl

Balgah

2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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“…Regmi & Star, 2014 as well as at individual/household level, e.g. Wuepper et al, 2020), but also the role of policy (in)coherence (e.g. England et al, 2018) and the cross-scalar interactions between policies, institutions, and individual/household actions (e.g.…”

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The evolution of empirical adaptation research in the global South from 2010 to 2020

Vincent

Cundill

2021

Climate and Development

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This paper applies a scoping review approach to inductively assess the evolution of empirical adaptation research in the global South over the period 2010 to 2020 using, as indicators of the literature, three leading adaptation journals covering different scales of analysis: Global Environmental Change, Regional Environmental Change and Climate and Development. The review confirms that previous calls for an increase in empirical adaptation research have been heeded. Research covers both policy and practice, and also different scales, with a particular focus on agricultural and rural settings. There is significant and growing interest in the determinants of adaptation and adaptive capacity (including the role of barriers and enablers), and a small but growing interest in the role of gender. The overall increase in total publications does not show even geographical or sectoral coverage. Large swathes of sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East/North Africa remain severely under-researched; and the overwhelming majority of papers focus on rural and agricultural issues rather than cities. This analysis offers tangible evidence to highlight where geographical and thematic gaps exist in our research on adaptation in the global South.

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“…The pineapple farmers of Ghana have received a lot of academic attention in recent years (Udry and Conley, 2004; Udry and Anagol, 2006; Goldstein and Udry, 2008; Conley and Udry, 2010; Suzuki et al , 2011; Gatune et al , 2013; Kleemann and Abdulai, 2013; Wuepper et al , 2016). One reason is the dynamism of the sector, starting with the business opportunity to grow pineapple for export to the European Union in the 1990s.…”

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“…The large literature on the diffusion of agricultural innovations suggests several explanations as to why seemingly profitable innovations do not quickly diffuse amongst the farmers and why the diffusion of some innovations is slower than that of others (Feder et al , 1985; Anderson and Feder, 2004; Foster and Rosenzweig, 2010). Such explanations include heterogeneous profits, such that not all farmers actually benefit from adoption (Suri, 2011), uninsured risk (Dercon and Christiaensen, 2011; Karlan et al , 2012), insecure tenure rights (Abdulai et al , 2011; Fenske, 2011), network effects (Conley and Udry, 2010; Wuepper et al , 2017) and bounded rationality (Duflo et al , 2011; Wuepper et al , 2016; Wuepper and Lybbert, 2017). An especially prominent explanation is information disequilibria.…”

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Sustainable intensification amongst Ghana's pineapple farmers: the complexity of an innovation determines the effectiveness of its training

Wuepper¹,

Sauer²,

Kleemann

2017

Envir. Dev. Econ.

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To foster the adoption of sustainable intensification practices amongst Ghana's farmers, they are widely promoted through training sessions provided by development organizations, companies, and the public extension service. We investigate whether these training sessions are effective and find that they are effective only for the diffusion of organic fertilizers but not for mulching. We suggest that this comes from the complexity of the innovations. Mulching is one of the simplest sustainable intensification technologies. It diffuses easily through peer learning and, after an initial training delivered to a critical mass of farmers, does not require training anymore. The use of organic fertilizers, in contrast, requires more specific knowledge and adaptation, which limits the effectiveness of peer learning and increases the effectiveness of training. This suggests that to achieve a widespread diffusion of sustainable intensification amongst Ghana's farmers, training sessions should focus on those practices that are complex and thus difficult to learn from peers.

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Non-cognitive skills and climate change adaptation: empirical evidence from Ghana’s pineapple farmers

Cited by 32 publications

References 85 publications

The Perception of Flood Risks: A Case Study of Babessi in Rural Cameroon

The Perception of Flood Risks: A Case Study of Babessi in Rural Cameroon

The evolution of empirical adaptation research in the global South from 2010 to 2020

Sustainable intensification amongst Ghana's pineapple farmers: the complexity of an innovation determines the effectiveness of its training

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