Strategies of smallholder farmers for coping with the impacts of cyclones: A case study from Madagascar

Rakotobe, Zo Lalaina; Harvey, Célia A.; Rao, N. H.; Dave, Radhika; Rakotondravelo, Jean Chrysostôme; Randrianarisoa, Jeannicq; Ramanahadray, Soloson; Rasolohery, Andriambolantsoa; Razafimahatratra, Hery; Rabarijohn, R.; Rajaofara, Haingo; Rameson, Harinaina; MacKinnon, James L.

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.04.013

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“…The availability of relevant institutions and access-related services are the main key variables that determine the extent of coping with shocks among smallholder AIV farmers in Kenya. In this respect, and consistent with studies of [40] and [48], our findings revealed that farmers who have access to credit services are more likely to increase their extent of coping with production shocks. This is because access to credit services relaxes liquidity constraints and thus enhances the adoption of appropriate technology that would reduce the impacts of production shocks.…”

Section: Determinants Of the Extent Of Coping With Production And Marsupporting

confidence: 92%

Coping with Shocks and Determinants among Indigenous Vegetable Smallholder Farmers in Kenya

Ngenoh¹,

Kebede²,

Bett³

et al. 2018

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Farm households in developing countries are faced with various challenges one of which is occurrence of unexpected negative events namely shocks. Shocks could be caused by extreme adverse natural events (droughts, storms, flood, and landslides) and market-related events (fuel, food, input and output price fluctuations, volatilities and price hikes). Most of these shocks affect production systems, food markets and local economies, all of which have direct effects on food security. This study explores the prevalence of shocks among indigenous vegetable farmers in Kenya followed by an assessment of the type of coping strategies in response to these shocks. We find that over two thirds of farmers have coping strategies that are not based on market-related insurance mechanisms; rather they use strategies such as working for more hours and selling assets. We analyze which socioeconomic and institutional factors determine households' decision and extent of coping with shocks. The results showed that access to high-value markets and market information were the major factors informing their decision and extent of using coping strategies along with access to critical services such as credit, extension, and farmer groups. This has significant policy implications regarding the dissemination of information and promotion of credit markets through mobile phone-based platforms for easy accessibility in remote rural areas. Social capital should be encouraged because it acts as a necessary and sufficient conduit for information dissemination and mutual support to help farmers' access critical services and resources needed for successful and sustainable implementation of relevant and appropriate coping strategies.

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Section: Determinants Of the Extent Of Coping With Production And Marsupporting

confidence: 92%

Coping with Shocks and Determinants among Indigenous Vegetable Smallholder Farmers in Kenya

Ngenoh¹,

Kebede²,

Bett³

et al. 2018

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“…Effective dissemination of novel technologies associated with integrated Striga management requires functional and accessible extension services to maximize farmer's awareness and education (Ellis-Jones et al, 2004;Emmanuel et al, 2016 (Zeller et al, 1999). Agriculture is also subject to frequent extreme weather events and pest and disease infestations (Rakotobe et al, 2016). Coupled to this is an absence of financial safety nets and widespread food insecurity for at least part of the year (Harvey et al, 2014).…”

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Identifying existing management practices in the control of Striga asiatica within rice–maize systems in mid‐west Madagascar

Scott

Scholes

Randrianjafizanaka

et al. 2021

Ecology and Evolution

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“…In line with this, the results of research shown that there was a significant relationship between knowledge and landslide disaster preparedness (p = 0.000, α = 0.05) (Setyo, Dima, & Widya, 2019). Another study of a semistructured survey of respondents had a strategy for dealing with storms, where 43% protected the house by strengthening the roof, 18% of the respondents protected their family by choosing a safe shelter and 32% of respondents stored food when the storm came back (Lalaina et al, 2016) ( Shay, Combs, Salvesen, Detrizio, & Horney, 2014). Good youth preparedness in disaster-prone areas is a form of good coping mechanisms and efforts made by always opening oneself to get good adaptation habits in disasterprone areas.…”

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Analysis of Factors Related To Adolescents Preparedness in The Disaster-Prone Areas In Lempake Village, Samarinda

Fitriani¹,

Rizal²,

Milkhatun³

et al. 2020

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The results of this study indicated that the characteristics of the respondents were mostly in their early adolescence with 408 people (67.8%), 346 women (57.1%) and 317 people with a high school education background (53.4%). Anxiety factor having moderate anxiety were 436 people (71.9%), the coping mechanism factor of the respondents having an adaptive coping mechanism were 338 people (55.8%) and the respondents social support factor having good social support were 319 people ( 52.6%) and most of the respondents (349 people (57.6%)) had a good preparedness. The results of the bivariate analysis showed that the p value <α (α = 0.05, CI; 95%) which indicates that there is a relationship between anxiety factors, coping mechanisms and social support with adolescent preparedness. The results of multivariate analysis using Logistic Regression (OR value: 5.1) found that the anxiety factor was the most significant factor associated with adolescent preparedness

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Strategies of smallholder farmers for coping with the impacts of cyclones: A case study from Madagascar

Cited by 48 publications

References 22 publications

Coping with Shocks and Determinants among Indigenous Vegetable Smallholder Farmers in Kenya

Coping with Shocks and Determinants among Indigenous Vegetable Smallholder Farmers in Kenya

Identifying existing management practices in the control of Striga asiatica within rice–maize systems in mid‐west Madagascar

Analysis of Factors Related To Adolescents Preparedness in The Disaster-Prone Areas In Lempake Village, Samarinda

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