Adaptation to Climate Change by Rural Ethnic Communities of Northern Thailand

Shrestha, Rajendra P.; Chaweewan, Nuanwan; Arunyawat, Sunsanee

doi:10.3390/cli5030057

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“…The IPCC's fifth assessment report showed that food production in Asia will vary and decline in many regions under the impact of climate change [37]. Rajendra et al focused on climate change impacts on farming in northern Thailand, where the vulnerability of farm households persists under the negative impact of climate change [54]. Yamei et al assessed the adverse effects of future climate on rice yields and provided potential adaptive measures [67].…”

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“…To alleviate the severity of climate change's impact on farm production and poverty, adaptation strategies, such as new crop varieties, changing planting times, homestead gardening, planting trees and migration, are vital approaches [6]. Furthermore, research that projects climate change's impacts on poverty or that pinpoints especially vulnerable regions and the vulnerability of farm household income under the impact of climate change is still needed [53,54]. Using statistical analysis, the current study attempts to derive an understanding of regional characteristics in terms of income and agriculture and to assess the contributions of different components on the observed total variance of income and cost, with an eye towards determining regional vulnerability to climate change and projecting the potential effects of climate change on poverty in Bangladesh.…”

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Farmers’ Net Income Distribution and Regional Vulnerability to Climate Change: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

Alamgir

Furuya

Kobayashi

et al. 2018

Climate

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Widespread poverty is the most serious threat and social problem that Bangladesh faces. Regional vulnerability to climate change threatens to escalate the magnitude of poverty. It is essential that poverty projections be estimated while bearing in mind the effects of climate change. The main purpose of this paper is to perform an agrarian sub-national regional analysis of climate change vulnerability in Bangladesh under various climate change scenarios and evaluate its potential impact on poverty. This study is relevant to socio-economic research on climate change vulnerability and agriculture risk management and has the potential to contribute new insights to the complex interactions between household income and climate change risks to agricultural communities in Bangladesh and South Asia. This study uses analysis of variance, cluster analysis, decomposition of variance and log-normal distribution to estimate the parameters of income variability that can be used to ascertain vulnerability levels and help us to understand the poverty levels that climate change could potentially generate. It is found that the levels and sources of income vary greatly among regions of Bangladesh. The variance decomposition of income showed that agricultural income in Mymensingh and Rangpur is the main cause of the total income difference among all sources of income. Moreover, a large variance in agricultural income among regions is induced by the gross income from rice production. Additionally, even in the long run the gradual, constant reduction of rice yield due to climate change in Bangladesh is not a severe problem for farmers. However, extreme events such as floods, flash floods, droughts, sea level rise and greenhouse gas emissions, based on Representative concentration pathways (RCPs), could increase the poverty rates in Mymensingh, Rajshahi, Barisal and Khulna-regions that would be greatly affected by unexpected yield losses due to extreme climatic events. Therefore, research into and development of adaptation measures to climate change in regions where farmers are largely dependent on agricultural income are important.

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Farmers’ Net Income Distribution and Regional Vulnerability to Climate Change: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

Alamgir

Furuya

Kobayashi

et al. 2018

Climate

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“…A few of the farmers stated a medium level of practice (six percent) and no farmers reported a high level of drought coping strategies. Farmers' coping strategies to CC can be influenced by several factors such as climatic, social and economic factors [50,51]. Rural populations are the most vulnerable to CC, as they usually lack the necessary resources to cope with the changing climatic conditions.…”

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Assessing Coping Strategies in Response to Drought: A Micro Level Study in the North-West Region of Bangladesh

Mardy

Uddin

Sarker

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Climate

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Drought is an extreme and frequent event in the northwest region of Bangladesh and it adversely affects the livelihood of the farming community. Identifying the coping strategies that farmers use in the face of drought is crucial in order to understand how farmers minimize the effects of drought on their production, especially in the face of climatic changes that may impact the occurrence of extreme weather events. The purpose of this study was to assess farmers' coping strategies for droughts by identifying which strategies are used and the influencing factors. A mixed methods approach using qualitative and quantitative data was employed. Preliminary data were collected using structured interviews and focus group discussions in which the findings were triangulated in order to design a questionnaire. The study respondents were 100 farmers operating in northwest Bangladesh. The findings were analyzed using descriptive statistics, coefficient of correlation, multiple linear and step-wise regressions. The results reveal that the respondents have limited drought coping strategies, even though the region is prone to frequent droughts. Among the fourteen identified drought coping strategies, the use of deep tube wells for irrigation water was the most widely reported and the farmers perceived it as the most important coping strategy. Shallow tube wells closely followed as the second most commonly used coping strategy reported by the respondents. Among the identified coping strategies, the least practiced was the use of treadle pumps. The findings from the study showed that age, education, farm size, annual family income, extension media contact, and organization participation were significantly associated with the choice of coping strategy that the farmers employed. Additionally, farm size, age, and education were identified as influential factors that affected the farmers' choice of which drought coping strategies to use. The study identified important issues for policy makers engaged with governmental programs that aim to enhance the farmers' drought coping mechanisms. The methods employed and the results of this study could be usefully applied in other districts of Bangladesh, or other areas of the world suffering from the negative effects of drought on agricultural production.

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“…The rural farmers are highly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, to droughts, excessive temperatures and heavy rainfall [Maluleke & Mokwena, 2017]. The change in climate pattern has a negative impact on farming and the vulnerability of farm households is related to the lack of knowledge and financial resources [Shrestha et al, 2017]. Gurgu (2010) discussed various aspects related to climate change, underlying that this phenomenon is one important concern at the global level, both governments and people being responsible in shaping the future.…”

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Households’ Perception of Climate Change Effects in Rural Romania

Surugiu

Mazilescu

et al. 2018

ASHU- ES

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This paper is focused on the analysis of the impact of climate change on the households from rural Romania. Climate change may have an impact on different sectors of the economy, such as agriculture, food industry, energy sector, tourism, etc. Also, the impact is felt by households. In rural regions of Romania, the households are already facing various risks, related to lack of income, and also related to ageing population. This study aimed to underline how rural people relate to the climatic conditions with emphasis on the trend of major change in the various aspects of the weather, sources used to find information on climate change, reliability level of the climate change information provided by various sources, the possibility to adopt measures to tackle the effects of climate change, and so on. A number of 100 copies of the questionnaire were distributed among households in a rural area of Dâmbovița County, Romania - Petrești commune - in April, 2018, with the main purpose to test it. The respondents were selected randomly. Poor households are vulnerable to climate change because low income cannot provide a satisfactory degree of access to services needed in the protection against threats. Various adaptation strategies may be used by households confronted with negative effects of climate change.

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Adaptation to Climate Change by Rural Ethnic Communities of Northern Thailand

Cited by 30 publications

References 20 publications

Farmers’ Net Income Distribution and Regional Vulnerability to Climate Change: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

Farmers’ Net Income Distribution and Regional Vulnerability to Climate Change: An Empirical Study of Bangladesh

Assessing Coping Strategies in Response to Drought: A Micro Level Study in the North-West Region of Bangladesh

Households’ Perception of Climate Change Effects in Rural Romania

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