Weather shocks, coping strategies and farmers’ income: A case of rural areas of district Multan, Punjab

Hussain, Anwar; Memon, Junaid Alam; Hanif, Sadia

doi:10.1016/j.wace.2020.100288

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“…A non-significant (p > 0.05) trend was shown in the summer season by all stations during 1979-2014. Hussain et al [87] explained that, in summers, 91% of the farmers stated that the day temperatures were higher than the previous years of this decade; as many as 62.3% reported the same thing for summer nights. Around 36% of farmers said that they found summer nights less hot than days.…”

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Assessment of Climate Variability among Seasonal Trends Using In Situ Measurements: A Case Study of Punjab, Pakistan

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This research assessed the changes in spatial patterns and the seasonal trends in temperature, precipitation, and relative humidity over 36 years (1979–2014) using Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) datasets. The evaluation of climate deviations was the prime objective of this research. The augmented Dickey–Fuller Test (ADF) was used to scrutinize whether the data was either stationary or non-stationary. The results of the ADF test showed that all the datasets were found to be stationary at lag order 3. To observe undulations in the time series data, trend analyses were done using Sen’s slope (SS), Mann–Kendall (MK), and Cox and Stuart (CS) tests. For all the statistical analyses, we considered the 5% significance level (α = 0.05) and p < 0.05 to be statistically significant. We observed significant (p < 0.05) trends in spring (MAM) and autumn (SON) for minimum temperature (Tmin) in Punjab. We also noted a significant (p < 0.05) trend in precipitation during autumn (SON). Annually, all the variables showed a non-significant (p > 0.05) trend for Punjab, Pakistan, during the period 1979–2014. Climate variability, such as a decrease in precipitation, higher temperature, and relative humidity fluctuations, were the reasons for the imbalance in the sustainability of Punjab, Pakistan.

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“…Further, Shabbir and Ahmad, 2016 [101] found water resources in the Rawalpindi region vulnerable to climatic and socio-economic factors. Similarly, studies for Multan, Sahiwal, and Lahore have reported their problems (e.g., crops productivity, floods, CO 2 discharge, land-use change, and pollution) [102][103][104][105][106][107]. The rest of the 32 districts have zero or negligible values in the 'very high' vulnerability zone.…”

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Investigating Eco-Environmental Vulnerability for China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Key Sector Punjab Using Multi-Sources Geo-Information

Kamran

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China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC), a critical part of the Belt and Road initiative (BRI), is subjected to rapid infrastructure development, which may lead to potential eco-environmental vulnerability. This study uses multi-source geo-information, and the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM)-based best–worst method (BWM) to quantify the baseline eco-environmental vulnerability of one key CPEC sector—the Punjab province. The Punjab province is an important connection between northern and southern CPEC routes in Pakistan. In this study, we have established an indicator system consisting of twenty-two influential factors in a geospatial database to conduct eco-environmental vulnerability analysis. The overall setup is supported by a geographic information system (GIS) to perform spatial analysis. The resulting map was categorized into five vulnerability levels: very low, low, medium, high, and very high. The results revealed that the overall eco-environmental health of the Punjab province is reasonably good as 4.64% and 59.45% area of the key sector lies in ‘very low’ and ‘low’ vulnerability categories; however, there also exist highly vulnerable areas, particularly in the proximity of CPEC projects. Although high vulnerability areas constitute a very small percentage, only 0.08% of the Punjab province, still, decision-makers need to be aware of those regions and make corresponding protection strategies. Our study demonstrated that the MCDM-BWM-based EVA model could be effectively used to quantify vulnerability in other areas of CPEC. The findings of the study emphasize that management policies should be aligned with research-based recommendations for ecological protection, natural resource utilization, and sustainable development in regions participating in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

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“…Social pressure has a strong impact on farmers, especially when compared to their own views. There is also an idea in the study [12] that farmers used different strategies to overcome weather shocks. Aniah, Kaunza-Nu-Dem, Ayembilla (2019) demonstrate strategies for adapting to climate change on farms, such as changing of planting times, using drought-resistant crop varieties, soil conservation strategies, based on farmers' knowledge passed down from generation to generation [13].…”

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Attitudes to time and coping-strategies of farming entrepreneurs

Pishchik

2021

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Farmers and especially their psychological state are not often objects of research. We used the following methods: the questionnaire “Attitudes to time” by Nutten (in Muzdybayev’s modification); the questionnaire SACS – “Strategies for overcoming stressful situations” (Hobfoll, 1994); the questionnaire of problems assessment in the activities of the farmers; the questionnaire “Crisis”, developed by us. The questionnaire “Crisis” was used to identify three groups of level of well-being. The sample consisted of farmers: 50 people. The results showed that the attitudes to time of young farmers have a positive, interesting, full of hope past; the present is negative, terrible, unsuccessful, significant; the future is positive, full of hope, active and saturated. The attitudes to time of older farmers are the following: the positive, pleasant, difficult, eventful past; the present is meaningful, positive, hopeful; the future is interesting, positive, bright, full of hope. The level of well-being in both groups is estimated at the average one. Coping strategies in the group of young farmers are - getting in touch, in the group of senior managers - indirect-actions; in both groups ‒ finding social support. The assessment of the problems of farming activity revealed two key problems - insufficient funds and lagging modernization.

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Weather shocks, coping strategies and farmers’ income: A case of rural areas of district Multan, Punjab

Cited by 26 publications

References 20 publications

Assessment of Climate Variability among Seasonal Trends Using In Situ Measurements: A Case Study of Punjab, Pakistan

Assessment of Climate Variability among Seasonal Trends Using In Situ Measurements: A Case Study of Punjab, Pakistan

Investigating Eco-Environmental Vulnerability for China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Key Sector Punjab Using Multi-Sources Geo-Information

Attitudes to time and coping-strategies of farming entrepreneurs

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