Download or read book Assessing Farmers Perceptions of Climate Change and the Potentials for Climate Change Adaptation in Delaware Maryland and Virginia Peninsula written by Erasmus Kabu Aduteye and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigating the Influence of Mediated Climate Change Communication on Farmers Climate Change Adaptation Stratagies in the Delaware Maryland and Virginia Peninsula written by Salome Chitubila and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Farmers Perceptions and Adaptations to Climate Change and Variability The Case of the Limpopo Basin South Africa written by Glwadys Aymone Gbetibouo and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2009 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on South Africa. In particular, rural farmers, whose livelihoods depend on the use of natural resources, are likely to bear the brunt of adverse impacts. The extent to which these impacts are felt depends in large part on the extent of adaptation in response to climate change. This research uses a "bottom-up" approach, which seeks to gain insights from the farmers themselves based on a farm household survey. Farm-level data were collected from 794 households in the Limpopo River Basin of South Africa for the farming season 2004-2005. The study examines how farmer perceptions correspond with climate data recorded at meteorological stations in the Limpopo River Basin and analyzes farmers' adaptation responses to climate change and variability. A Heckman probit model and a multinomial logit (MNL) model are used to examine the determinants of adaptation to climate change and variability. The statistical analysis of the climate data shows that temperature has increased over the years. Rainfall is characterized by large interannual variability, with the previous three years being very dry. Indeed, the analysis shows that farmers' perceptions of climate change are in line with the climatic data records. However, only approximately half of the farmers have adjusted their farming practices to account for the impacts of climate change. Lack of access to credit was cited by respondents as the main factor inhibiting adaptation. The results of the multinomial logit and Heckman probit models highlighted that household size, farming experience, wealth, access to credit, access to water, tenure rights, off-farm activities, and access to extension are the main factors that enhance adaptive capacity. Thus, the government should design policies aimed at improving these factors.
Download or read book Farmers Perceptions and Adaptations to Climate Change through Conservation Agriculture written by Urgessa Tilahun and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Agrarian Studies, , course: Graduate studies, language: English, abstract: Ethiopia, one of the developing countries, is facing serious natural resource degradation problems. The main objective of this study was to examine the farmer’s perceptions and adaptation to climate change through conservation agriculture. The data used for the study were collected from 142 farm households heads drawn from five kebeles. Primary data and secondary data were used. In addition to descriptive statistics, Heckman two stage sample selection model was employed to examine farmer’s perceptions and adaptations of climate change. Farmers level of education, household nonfarm income, livestock ownership, extension on crop and livestock, households’ credit accessibility, perception of increase in temperature and perception of decrease in precipitation significantly affect the adaptation to climate change. Similarly, farmers’ perception of climate change was affected significantly by information on climate, farmer to farmer extension, local agro -ecology, number of relatives in development group and perception of change in duration of season. A binary logit model was employed for farmers’ participation in conservation agriculture shows education level, number of active family labour and main employment of farmers were significant variables in determining participation in conservation agriculture
Download or read book Investigating Weather Shocks and the Farmers Perceptions of Climate Change in the American Farmland Market written by Matthew Levy Utterback and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. agriculture is likely to be affected by climate change due to its inherent reliance on climatic inputs. An important difference among methods of climate change impact assessment is the treatment of farmer adaptation. While the cross-sectional Ricardian approach assumes that farmers have fully adapted to their current climate, panel methods assessing weather effects on profits assume farmers cannot fully adapt to idiosyncratic weather changes. Less is known, however, about the process of climate change adaptation and how farmers transition from practices adapted to a given climate to the next. This thesis posits that farmers must first perceive that climate is changing as a pre- requisite of engaging into adaptive responses. I test whether this first step in the adaptation process is occurring by exploiting the effect of random weather fluctuations on farm real estate, which reflects farmer perceptions about farm profitability. I develop a theoretical model to clarify the channels through which random weather shocks could affect farmland values, in which I consider farmers as Bayesian learners who update their priors about their mean climate based on experienced weather. I then rely on a distributed lag model to test the hypothesis. I find no evidence that weather shocks have affected the farmland market. These findings are robust to geographic and temporal subdivisions. The results suggest that farmers do not perceive recent extreme weather as indications of sizable upcoming changes in farm profitability. This may reflect the countervailing effect of agricultural prices and of government policies such as disaster payments.
Download or read book Vermont Agricultural Resilience in a Changing Climate written by Rachel Erin Schattman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change forecasts tell of significant challenges ahead for agrifood systems at all scales, from global to highly local. Farmers are often at the forefront of these challenges. How farmers perceive climate related risks, and the actions they take to protect or adapt their lives and livelihoods are therefore a critical area of inquiry. The purpose of this dissertation is to describe how farmers in Vermont, in the Northeastern U.S., think about climate change, and how their experiences and perceptions influence engagement with adaptation or mitigation activities. To this end, my research questions included: (1) what are farmers already doing to address climate impacts on their farms? (2) Do farmers perceive climate change to be a risk, and if so what are they doing to address it? (3) Are farmers and agricultural technical service providers in agreement about the current performance of climate change adaptation strategies? (4) Can a qualitative typology of farmers describe the degree to which they are resilient in the face of climate change? I conducted this research in the context of a larger, collaborative effort called the Vermont Agricultural Resilience in a Changing Climate Initiative (VAR), based at the University of Vermont. VAR served as an umbrella for transdisciplinary, participatory action research activities that capitalized on a diversity of perspectives and expertise, including the embedded knowledge of farmers and agricultural technical service providers. The VAR team as a whole and in sub-teams utilized a selection of research approaches including preliminary research activities that contributed to the development of research questions addressed in this dissertation, and primary research approaches used to answer those questions. This dissertation report consists of the following chapters: Chapters 1-2 present and introduction and background information related to climate change and agriculture, including a review of national, regional and site conditions as well as an overview of research purpose, approaches, methods, and theoretical frameworks applicable to the exploration of the questions and interpretation of findings. Chapters 3-6 address the following topics: (1) a case study in transdisciplinary participatory action research applied to climate change and agriculture in Vermont, (2) an analysis of farmer perceptions of climate related risk and associated on-farm adaptation strategies, (3) a report of farmer perceptions of climate change and comparison of farmer and technical service provider evaluations of potential climate change best management practices, and (4) a qualitative typology of farmer resilience. This research is some of the first to address these topics from the perspective of farmers in the Northeastern U.S. Through these chapters, an important story is told about role that climate change plays in farm management today. The broader application of these findings is in the design of thoughtful programming and policies that support agrifood system resilience. I argue that social programs and policies that address agriculture and climate change should be informed by the experiences of farmers. When we weave together the knowledge of agricultural practitioners and our best scientific knowledge, we can better prepare for the changes in agrifood systems that a changing climate will require of us.
Download or read book Farmers Perception of Climate Change and Their Adaptations written by M.H. Shankara and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today. Agriculture and Climate are mutually dependent. There is a need to understand the effect of climate change on agricultural sector both at Global and as well as at regional level, especially from the point of view of providing food to vulnerable section of the population. With unpredictable weather, farmers keep changing crop management practices by growing resistant varieties and be prepared for constant change in the farming practices. Impacts of climate change are diversified and need to be understood, so as to workout pragmatic strategies to mitigate ill-effects of climate change. With this background, this study has been designed to understand farmer's perception about the changes in climate and their adaptation measures initiated in Eastern Dry Zone (Zone-5) of Karnataka, India.
Download or read book Farmer s Perception of Climate Change and Their Adaptations written by M.H Shankara and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmers Perception and Local Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change written by Mesfin Kassa Admassie and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was intended to examine farmers' perception of climate change/variability, the household level impacts of climate change, and local adaptation strategies in the highlands. The study was carried out in Menz Gera Midir district located in the North Shoa Zone of the Amhara Regional State. A total of 180 sample households selected through stratified random sampling procedure were selected and interviewed using a structured survey questionnaire. In addition, 12 focus group discussions and 16 key informant interviews were conducted. Meteorological data that spans for about 30 years was used to analyse the patterns of rainfall and temperature changes.
Download or read book Farmers Perceptions and Adaptations to Climate Change Through Conservation Agriculture written by Urgessa Tilahun and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Perception of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa written by David J. Maddison and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this paper is to determine the ability of farmers in Africa to detect climate change, and to ascertain how they have adapted to whatever climate change they believe has occurred. The paper also asks farmers whether they perceive any barriers to adaptation and attempts to determine the characteristics of those farmers who, despite claiming to have witnessed climate change, have not yet responded to it. The study is based on a large-scale survey of agriculturalists in 11 African countries. The survey reveals that significant numbers of farmers believe that temperatures have already increased and that precipitation has declined. Those with the greatest experience of farming are more likely to notice climate change. Further, neighboring farmers tell a consistent story. There are important differences in the propensity of farmers living in different locations to adapt and there may be institutional impediments to adaptation in some countries. Although large numbers of farmers perceive no barriers to adaptation, those that do perceive them tend to cite their poverty and inability to borrow. Few if any farmers mentioned lack of appropriate seed, security of tenure, or market accessibility as problems. Those farmers who perceive climate change but fail to respond may require particular incentives or assistance to do what is ultimately in their own best interests. Although experienced farmers are more likely to perceive climate change, it is educated farmers who are more likely to respond by making at least one adaptation.
Download or read book Adaptation Potential of European Agriculture in Response to Climate Change written by Frances Moore and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Projecting the impacts of climate change on agriculture requires knowing or assuming how farmers will adapt. However, empirical estimates of the effectiveness of this private adaptation are scarce and the sensitivity of impact assessments to adaptation assumptions is not well understood. Here we assess the potential effectiveness of private farmer adaptation in Europe by jointly estimating both short-run and long-run response functions using time-series and cross-sectional variation in sub-national yield and profit data. The difference between the impacts of climate change projected using the short-run (limited adaptation) and long-run (substantial adaptation) response curves can be interpreted as the private adaptation potential. We find high adaptation potential for maize to future warming but large negative effects and only limited adaptation potential for wheat and barley. Overall, agricultural profits could increase slightly under climate change if farmers adapt but could decrease in many areas if there is no adaptation. Decomposing the variance in 2040 projected yields and farm profits using an ensemble of 13 climate model runs, we find that the rate at which farmers will adapt to rising temperatures is an important source of uncertainty.
Download or read book A Structural Ricardian Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations in African Agriculture written by Sungno Niggol Seo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This paper develops a Structural Ricardian model to measure climate change impacts that explicitly models the choice of farm type in African agriculture. This two stage model first estimates the type of farm chosen and then the conditional incomes of each farm type after removing selection biases. The results indicate that increases in temperature encourage farmers to adopt mixed farming and avoid specialized farms such as crop-only or livestock-only farms. Increases in precipitation encourage farmers to shift from irrigated to rainfed crops. As temperatures increase, farm incomes from crop-only farms or livestock-only farms fall whereas incomes from mixed farms increase. With precipitation increases, farm incomes from irrigated farms fall whereas incomes from rainfed farms increase. Naturally, the Structural Ricardian model predicts much smaller impacts than a model that holds farm type fixed. With a hot dry climate scenario, the Structural Ricardian model predicts that farm income will fall 50 percent but the fixed farm type model predicts farm incomes will fall 75 percent.
Download or read book Farmer s Perception of Climate Change with Gender Sensitive for Optimized Irrigation in a Compound Surface Groundwater System written by Meseret Dawit and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water use/management is an outcome of natural and socio-economic factors and its utilization by man in time and space is very crucial to the changing climate problem. Water is becoming a scarce resource due to immense agricultural, climate change and demographic pressure. Hence, information on water use/management cover and their associated management practices are essential for selection, planning, implementation and monitoring of water use schemes for further optimal use to meet the increasing demands for basic human needs and welfare. Climate change affects the water demand and supply routes in which more than 65% of the lake water level decrease is due to climate change and overuse of surface water. The dynamics of gender to science and the environment have been in the investigation for decades and concern to science and environmental sociologists. The research and finding shows that women's countenance and apprehension to climate change is much greater than men's. The gender sensitivity and deference to the concern of environments on the climate knowledge leads to suggest the need for further findings of its implication to science. The study shows that women's role in farming is important to bring about household-based food security. The adaptation to climate change, especially in the arid and semi-arid regions, is a bottleneck challenge to date. The farmers' perception could be base to finding of factors affecting the climate change and impact management at the livelihood among the farmers. The study exposes more than half of from the gathered data, the understanding and communication of farmers based on experience and concerns to the climate impact. Moreover, studies showed the change in climate has a potential effect to the resource of water supply, for agriculture, urbanization, and environment. Therefore, there is a need to assess in detail the dynamics of surface-groundwater interaction in relation to climate change with gender sensitive to optimize the irrigation system.
Download or read book Micro Level Analysis of Farmers Adaption to climate change in Southern Africa written by Charles Nhemachena and Rashid Hassan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farmers Perception on Adaptation to Climate Change a Case Study of Irrigators in the Riverland South Australia written by A.E. de Jonge and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate projections for the Lower Murray catchment estimate elevated temperatures and a decline in rainfall and runoff (Connor et al.,2008), which is very likely to affect agricultural systems. The negative impacts can be mitigated through adaptation, which requires involvement of the local community (Klein et al., 2007), and hence, it is important to gain a better understanding of farmers’ perceptions to climate change, the adaptation options to the current drought circumstances and what limits their actions upon droughts and climate change. The data is collected through a phone-survey in which 43 farmers participated. Although the number of participated farmers is not sufficient to generalize the results beyond this sample population, general trends were identified for further evaluation. The interviewed farmers are aware of variations in climatic conditions, but are inclined to connect these to the natural climatic variability, rather than to human-induced climate change. Adaptation to the current drought exists mainly of purchasing extra water rights and/or improving irrigation efficiency. Factors which influencing farmers perceptions toward climate change and their ability to adapt, are their age, education level and the district where they are living in. Younger farmers tend to be aware of climate change and the impacts on their farm business, while older farmers appear to link this to natural climatic variability. Farmers who have been on university or have followed TAFE are more likely to respond than farmers who have been only on primary school. In addition, farmers who are living in Kingston OM are more likely to adapt to climate change. The main barriers for adaptation to climate change considered by farmers are the lack of financial incentives, their strong dependency on commodity prices and the lack of knowledge on future water availability and adaptation options. This study suggests that the adoption of climate change adaptation measures can be accelerated by financial incentives that reduce the financial risks of the individual farmers and by providing more information about the future climate change impacts and adaptation possibilities.
Download or read book Farmer Strategies Towards Climate Variability and Change written by Chipo Plaxedes Mubaya and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While adaptation and coping with climate variability and change have become key themes in current global climate discussions and policy initiatives, literature on coping as distinct from adaptation appears to be still limited, with literature making reference to adaptation broadly. In view of this, research was conducted in Zimbabwe and Zambia to build an understanding on farmers' perceptions of risk, analyze impacts from climatic variability and change and identify coping and adaptation strategies to climate variability and change. The qualitative approach formed the basis of the study, particularly through Participatory methods. While farmers are aware of climate change and variability and have subsequently started to employ strategies to deal with these changes, they tend to assign contribution of multiple stressors to climate change. Impacts from climate change include reduction in crop yields, socio-economic impacts, changes in availability of fresh water and health related problems. The need to capitalize on local benefits from climate change is emphasized in this book
