Smallholder farmers’ awareness and perceptions of climate change in Adama district, central rift valley of Ethiopia

Hundera, Hurgesa; Mpandeli, Sylvester; Bantider, Amare

doi:10.1016/j.wace.2019.100230

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“…In addition, a statistically nonsignificant difference between farmers of South Ari and Konso on their perceptions of climate change, seasonal rainfall, and temperature indicated their similar level of understanding of changes in the local environmental conditions. In agreement with this result, other reports in different parts of Ethiopia indicated that farmers' understanding of climate change has been improved [18,56]. Furthermore, the farmers surveyed reported that they face risks as a result of climate change, such as increased drought and flood frequency, increased crop pest infestations, a decline in crop productivity, increased human and livestock disease, and water scarcity for humans and livestock.…”

Section: Farmers' Perception Of Climate Change Its Impact and Eir Adaptationsupporting

confidence: 79%

“…On the other hand, the positive trends observed on annual and seasonal rainfall might not show a positive signal for agricultural practices since an increasing trend of rainfall would not necessarily have good distribution especially during the crop growing season. In this context, Hundera et al [56] reported that though the rainfall had positive trends in different regions of Ethiopia, the annual and seasonal variability is very high and poses risks to agricultural production. Temporal trend analysis should be further supported by variability analysis to have good insight especially for agricultural activities [12].…”

Section: Temporal Trends Of Rainfall and Temperaturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Spatial Variability and Temporal Trends of Climate Change in Southwest Ethiopia: Association with Farmers’ Perception and Their Adaptation Strategies

Habte

Mamo

Worku

et al. 2021

Advances in Meteorology

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The impact of climate change is a global threat, and its effect is more pronounced in developing countries. It is vital to link physical data analysis with endogenous knowledge and practices of farmers to strengthen their adaptive capacity. This study was conducted to explore spatial variability and temporal trends of temperature and rainfall in association with farmers’ perceptions and their adaptation strategies in Southwest Ethiopia. Daily rainfall and temperature data of twelve weather stations were collected from the National Meteorological Agency of Ethiopia for the period 1983 to 2016. Farmers’ perceptions about climate change and its impact and their adaptation strategies were assessed through a survey. Spatial variability and temporal trends of rainfall and temperature were analyzed using ArcGIS and R software. Sen’s slope estimator and Mann–Kendall’s trend tests were used to detect the magnitude and statistical significance of changes in rainfall and temperature. Spatial analysis of rainfall showed high variability over the region. There were no consistent and significant temporal trends of annual and seasonal rainfall of the area. Significant and upward trends of annual maximum and minimum temperatures were reported for all stations. Accordingly, annual maximum and minimum temperatures were increased by 0.71 and 0.65°C, respectively, over the period 1983 to 2016. Farmers had a good awareness of climate change and its impact. Adaptation strategies used by farmers included soil and water conservation practices (66.21%), crop diversification (62.16%), modifying planting date (42.56%), agroforestry practices (35.13%), use of drought-tolerant variety (33.95%), use of early maturing crop (27.03%), and livelihood diversification (25.42%). As most of these adaptation strategies were familiarized by a small number of farmers, further effort is needed to identify factors limiting the adoption of these strategies. Furthermore, additional planned strategies and supports that widen available options at the farmers’ disposal should be introduced to strengthen their adaptive capacity.

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Section: Farmers' Perception Of Climate Change Its Impact and Eir Adaptationsupporting

confidence: 79%

Section: Temporal Trends Of Rainfall and Temperaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Variability and Temporal Trends of Climate Change in Southwest Ethiopia: Association with Farmers’ Perception and Their Adaptation Strategies

Habte

Mamo

Worku

et al. 2021

Advances in Meteorology

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“…Four out of ten (44%) of the sample agree about a common pattern of decreasing rainfall amount (Yamba et al 2019, Zhang et al 2019, including a reduction in the average number of rainy days (Limuwa et al 2018), while studies in which climate data corroborates an increase of rainy days (Hundera et al 2019) or winter precipitation (Chaulagain and Rimal 2019) during summer are less abundant. However, some studies (41%) characterize rainfall patterns as erratic, unpredictable, with highly dispersed rains, or onset and cessation rains (Meze-Hausken 2004, Kabote et al 2017, Mkonda and He 2017), especially when considering geographical contexts affected by the monsoon season (Joshi et al 2019, Melvani et al 2020.…”

Section: What About Climate Data Covering Extreme Events?mentioning

confidence: 81%

“…One in five papers directly ask about the perception and awareness of changing climate (Hitayezu et al 2017, Hein et al 2019, Hundera et al 2019, Mbwambo et al 2021. Most farmers have noticed some abnormal changes in their local climatic patterns or anomalies over the last decades (Brüssow et al 2019) or the past few years (Cullen andAnderson 2017, Dadzie 2021).…”

Section: Which Climate Risks Are Perceived By Farmers?mentioning

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On farmers’ perceptions of climate change and its nexus with climate data and adaptive capacity. A comprehensive review

Ricart

Castelletti

Gandolfi

2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Farmers’ perception of climate change is crucial in adaptation intention and process. However, farmers’ perceptions may not be timely, accurate and systematically consistent with the direction and significance of observational records. Although some research compared farmers’ perceptions and climate data, little attention has been paid to comprehensibly analyse both data sources discrepancies based on empirical studies results. By combining bibliometrics and a systematic review approach, we identify which approaches are used to compare perceived and observed data, how both patterns have been mutually evolved, which factors determine their (in)consistency, and if their accordance and robustness affect farmers’ adaptive capacity. We analyse a portfolio of 147 papers collected from the Scopus library catalogue since 2000. The bibliometric analysis was coupled with an exploratory analysis of 98 papers selected from the original portfolio. The literature is extensive, fast-growing, and spans several disciplines. We identify four consolidated research lines: i) perceived risk and farmers’ adaptive capacity nexus, ii) crop vulnerability due to temperature increase and erratic rainfall patterns, iii) forecasting use and influence in farmers’ decisions, and iv) climate change awareness conditioning farmers’ profiles. Nonetheless, we observe some research gaps: 1) a conceptual mismatch in ‘normal pattern’ or ‘drought’ meaning, 2) poor or limited data from meteorological stations, 3) overlook or oversimplification of local knowledge in describing perception, 4) farmers’ memory weaknesses to keep track of climate alterations, and 5) a geographical dissonance in favour of Global South regions. Our science-metric study also reveals some research questions to be consolidated: Can the perception of extreme events increase climate change awareness? Can greater awareness reduce discrepancy with observed data? How do heuristics and socio-psychological filters influence farmers’ awareness and interpretation of climate data? We suggest putting major efforts into reinforcing these research lines as part of a novel domain-dependent trend to reduce the discrepancy.

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“…Some studies reported a decreasing trend in seasonal and annual rainfall (Hill and Porter, 2017;Asfaw et al, 2018). Conversely, other studies have reported increasing trend in annual rainfall (Gemeda, 2019;Hundera et al, 2019;Tesfamariam et al, 2019;Wedajo et al, 2019). Other studies found both an increasing and decreasing rainfall trend in different areas (Cheung et al, 2008;Omondi et al, 2014;Eshetu et al, 2018;Gebrechorkos et al, 2018;Degefie et al, 2019).…”

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Evidences of climate change presences in the wettest parts of southwest Ethiopia

Gemeda

Korecha²,

Garedew

2021

Heliyon

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Climate change has been identified as a major challenge of rainfed agriculture. To contextualize whether there is climate change footprint, identification of rainfall and temperature trend at regional and local scale is helpful for designing long-term adaptation and mitigation strategies. The present study therefore aims to assess evidences of climate change presences in terms of, climate variability and trend in the wettest parts of Southwest Ethiopia. Daily and monthly historical gridded rainfall and temperature data (1983–2016) of ten stations were provided by Ethiopian National Metrological Agency. Moreover, long years historical recorded climate data of Nekemte and Bedele (1971–2020) and Sekoru (1981–2020) were used in the present study. Coefficient of variation, the Mann-Kendall non-parametric statistical test and Sen's slope estimator, linear regression analysis and the precipitation concentration index were applied to detect the presence of climate change in the southwest parts of Ethiopia. In this study, the trend package of open R software employed for trend identification and rate of change per year. The results indicate that the annual rainfall has declining trend at five stations with statistically significant at one station while the mean maximum and minimum temperature shows a statistically significant increasing trend at eight and six stations, respectively. At a seasonal scale, the amount of rainfall in the main rainy season (June to August) is dominated by a downward trend (eight out of ten stations) while, the autumn season (September to November) shows an increasing trend in all stations with statistically significant at one station. The precipitation concentration index analysis revealed that inconsistent and significantly irregular precipitation is observed at six stations (60%) of the ten stations. This study concludes that the climate of the wettest parts of Ethiopia is getting warmer and the amount of rainfall in the main rainy season has declined in the vast majority of the study area.

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Smallholder farmers’ awareness and perceptions of climate change in Adama district, central rift valley of Ethiopia

Cited by 30 publications

References 14 publications

Spatial Variability and Temporal Trends of Climate Change in Southwest Ethiopia: Association with Farmers’ Perception and Their Adaptation Strategies

Spatial Variability and Temporal Trends of Climate Change in Southwest Ethiopia: Association with Farmers’ Perception and Their Adaptation Strategies

On farmers’ perceptions of climate change and its nexus with climate data and adaptive capacity. A comprehensive review

Evidences of climate change presences in the wettest parts of southwest Ethiopia

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