Climate change induced adaptation by paddy farmers in Malaysia

Alam, Md. Mahmudul; Siwar, Chamhuri; Toriman, Mohd Ekhwan bin; Molla, Rafiqul Islam; Talib, Basri Abdul

doi:10.1007/s11027-011-9319-5

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“…Farmers' adaptation practices to cope with the agricultural vulnerability due to climatic change are not found adequate and satisfactory (Alam et al, 2011c(Alam et al, , 2012a. Their adaptation methods are based only on their ideas or reactions.…”

Section: Agricultural Adaptationmentioning

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Agricultural Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climatic Changes in Malaysia: Review on Paddy Sector

Salleh¹

2013

Curr World Environ

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Section: Agricultural Adaptationmentioning

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Agricultural Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climatic Changes in Malaysia: Review on Paddy Sector

Salleh¹

2013

Curr World Environ

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“…Malaysia joined 185 other nations in signing the Declaration of Rome at the 1996 International Food Summit, pledging to reduce the prevalence of hunger by at least 50%, within its own jurisdiction, by a target date some time in the early 21 st century. However, in Malaysia, the food security has been embedded into the theme of self-sufficiency level that referred to paddy or rice sector only (Alam et al 2011;2012a), instead of having a specific or special policy on overall food security. To ensure food security in Malaysia, the government adopts two strategies, such as establishing self-sufficiency level and building rice stocks both domestically and internationally.…”

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Food Security and Low-Income Households in the Malaysian East Coast Economic Region: An Empirical Analysis

Alam¹,

Siwar²,

Wahid³

et al. 2019

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This research aims at analyzing the level of food security among some selected poor and lowincome households in Malaysia. The study area is located in the East Coast Economic Region of the country. It uses primary data collected during the July-October months of 2012 and 460 sample families were chosen from the E-Kasih poor households database based on cluster random sampling technique. In this sample survey, households' food security has been measured by the USAID-HFIA model. The findings of the study indicate that 52.8% of the households are food secure, that of 23.3% are mildly food insecure, 14.3% are moderately food insecure, and 9.6% are severely food insecure. The findings on the current situation of household food security among different economic groups is very important for the policy makers to achieve Vision 2020 and the targets of Malaysian National Plans regarding food security, socioeconomic development and poverty alleviation. In order to ensure food security in Malaysia, especial focuses are needed for those who are severely food insecured and those who are food insecured but marginally above the poverty line. Here the involvement of private sector and community based organizations are also important to combat the short run, seasonal, and event related risk of food insecurity as well as for the development of appropriate mitigation and adaptation options to ensure sustainable food security at household level in Malaysia.

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“…On a global scale, the frequency, duration and severity of droughts have increased substantially in recent decades (Dai, 2011), especially in the regions of arid and semi-arid (Solomon, 2007). Furthermore, drought directly or indirectly affect social and economic sustainability (Alam et al, 2012). Generally divided drought into four categories, meteorological drought, hydrological drought, agricultural drought, as well as socio-economic drought (Wilhite and Glantz, 1985).…”

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Spatiotemporal variability and assessment of drought in the Wei River basin of China

Cai

Zuo

et al. 2018

Proc. IAHS

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The temporal and spatial variations of drought in the Wei River basin (WRB) were investigated by calculating the meteorological drought Index (Standardized Precipitation Index, SPI) and the agricultural drought index (Vegetation Health Index, VHI). Monthly precipitation and air temperature were from 22 meteorological stations over the region from 1960 to 2015. Monthly Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and 8days Land Surface Temperature (LST) were provided from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the period 2000-2015 were also adopted. The results showed that the drought initially increased and then decreased, reaching at the maximum value in 1990s. The spatial pattern of meteorological drought showed that the drought in northern WRB was heavier than that in southern WRB before 1990s, after that, the situation had the opposite. By comparing the agricultural drought index (VHI) with crop yield, it was proved that VHI was applicable in the WRB and could well reflect the fluctuation of agricultural drought. The WRB suffered from serious agricultural drought in 2000, 2001, 2007 and 2008. Through analysis of the historical precipitation and temperature data, it was found that precipitation had a greater contribution to creating agricultural drought conditions than temperature in the Wei River basin.

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Climate change induced adaptation by paddy farmers in Malaysia

Cited by 53 publications

References 15 publications

Agricultural Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climatic Changes in Malaysia: Review on Paddy Sector

Agricultural Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climatic Changes in Malaysia: Review on Paddy Sector

Food Security and Low-Income Households in the Malaysian East Coast Economic Region: An Empirical Analysis

Spatiotemporal variability and assessment of drought in the Wei River basin of China

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