Effect of Land Tenure on Adoption of Climate Change Adaptation. Evidence From Malawi

Abstract

The definitive aim of this study was to bring to fore the evidence of the importance of tenure considerations in the designing, development, and implementation of climate change programs. This was done by analyzing how land tenure affects the use of adaptation strategies in Malawi. Using secondary data from the Integrated Household Survey (IHS4), a multinomial logit model was fitted to analyze determinants of adoption of climate change adaptation strategies. Land tenure has shown to significantly affect the adoption of the technologies in question. Insecure arrangements such as borrowing and renting land tend to discourage adoption. The proliferation of borrowed or rented in Malawi’s agricultural sector necessitates intervention to encourage adaptation on those farms to avoid land degradation.

Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and its Impact on Household Vulnerability to Food Insecurity: A Micro-level Evidence from Southwest Ethiopia

“…The sample size computation for the selection of households from each district took into account (i) a 5% margin of error (e=0.05) at 95 % confidence (Z=1.96); (ii) N=84,980; (iii) the proportion (p) for the different variables under investigation (p = 0.88). Moreover, to be consistent with many previous studies of such type [20][21][22], which factored in a design effect ranging from 1.5 to 2.5, this calculation has also considered a design effect of 2.5 to address the multistage sampling inherent errors. Additionally, a 5% non-response rate (NRR) has been accounted for to accommodate households that may be unavailable, inaccessible, uncooperative, or have any other hindrance preventing survey teams from reaching the selected household.…”