Ex-ante and ex-post coping strategies for climatic shocks and adaptation determinants in rural Malawi

Abid, Мuhammad; Ali, Akhter; Rahut, Dil Bahadur; Raza, Mohsin; Mehdi, Mubashir

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2019.100200

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“…Like other studies (Abid et al 2020;Bryan et al 2009; Rahut and Ali 2018), our results showed that capital assets including livestock, land, and other assets indicative of wealth were positively associated with the household's likelihood of adopting climate adaptation strategies, probably due to increased investment capability. These results indicate the importance of development interventions and policies to enable poor also to adapt to climate change.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…The positive role of education and literacy on the use of climate adaptation strategies across the globe has been confirmed by other research (Abid et al 2015(Abid et al , 2020Mohal and MMA 2007;Mulwa et al 2017;Thomas et al 2007), suggesting that development initiatives aimed at long-term climate change risk mitigation and that wish to encourage resilience and adaptation strategies could benefit by fundamental efforts to increase literacy and numeracy.…”

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Major Climate risks and Adaptation Strategies of Smallholder Farmers in Coastal Bangladesh

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Sapkota

Rahut

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Environmental Management

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Rural households in South Asia’s coastal deltas face numerous livelihood challenges, including risks posed by climatic variability and extreme weather events. This study examines major climate risks, farmers’ adaptation strategies, and the factors affecting the choice of those strategies using data collected from 630 households in southwestern coastal Bangladesh. Farmers identified cyclones, excessive rain and flooding, and salinity as direct climate risks. Increased crop diseases/pests and livestock diseases were perceived as indirect risks resulting from climatic variability. Farmers used multiple adaptation strategies against those risks such as modifications in farm management, use of savings and borrowing funds from family and neighbors, and periodically reducing household food consumption. Off-farm employment and seeking assistance from governmental as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were also common adaptation strategies. The results show that male-headed households are more likely to change farming practices and reduce consumption compared with female-headed households that conversely tended to take assistance from NGOs as an adaptation strategy. Ownership of land and livestock, as well as farmers’ prior exposure to climate change and educational training, also had a significant effect on the choice of adaptation strategy. Therefore, development interventions and policies that aimed at improving resource endowment and training to farmers on climatic risks and their adaptation strategies can help minimize the impact of climatic risks.

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Major Climate risks and Adaptation Strategies of Smallholder Farmers in Coastal Bangladesh

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Rahut

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Environmental Management

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“…For centuries, farming households have been employing actions before the impact (ex-ante response) in response to risks and shocks of climatic change, and these adaptation strategies are considered as usual ( Abid et al., 2020 ). For example, farmers usually adopt strategies such as fertilizer application, application of insecticides, crop diversification, income diversification, among others.…”

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“…However, many farm households rely on income from non-farm work to implement climate change adaptation strategies and supplement what they earned from their farms ( Ojo and Baiyegunhi 2020 ; Yiridomah et al., 2020 ). While separate literature exists on adaptation strategies (e.g., Kibue et al., 2016 ; Mulwa et al., 2017 ; Abid et al., 2020 ; Diallo et al., 2020 ; Ojo and Baiyegunhi 2020 ) and non-farm employment (e.g., Asfaw et al., 2017 ; Das 2017 ; Giannakis et al., 2018 ), few of such studies have discussed the link between participation in non-farm employment and climate change adaptation strategies.…”

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Climate change adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers in Nigeria: does non-farm employment play any role?

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Non-farm employment in agrarian communities in developing countries has received a lot of attention. However, its role in implementing climate change adaptation strategies is rarely discussed. This study employs a crosssectional data to examine whether rural households in Southwest Nigeria are increasing the extent of climate change adaptation practices through their participation in non-farm employment. To account for selectivity bias, the study used endogenous treatment effect for count data model (precisely Poisson) augmented with the inverse probability-weighted-regression-adjustment (IPWRA) estimator. Both estimators found that rural non-farm jobs increase smallholder farmers' adaptive capacities and that participants would have used less adaptation techniques if they had not participated in non-farm work. Efforts to boost rural development must provide more employment opportunities for farmers, particularly during the off-cropping time. This will help farmers improve their ability to adopt more climate change adaptation strategies and, consequently increase farm productivity.

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“…This article demonstrates how the determinants of adaptation vary with the estimation approach-parametric and semiparametric. Given these, this article adds to the contribution from previous studies such as Shah, Ye, Abid, and Ullah (2017), Abid, Ali, Raza, and Mehdi (2020), and Khanal et al (2018) regarding riverine floods in developing countries by investigating two main questions: (a) What are the existing adaptation measures against floods at the household level? (b) What factors influence household adaptation to floods?…”

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Determinants of flood adaptation: Parametric and semiparametric assessment

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2021

J Flood Risk Management

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Flood adaptation measures are indispensable to offset agricultural losses emanating from the increasing frequency and intensity of floods. Therefore, it is necessary to identify key precursors of adaptation for the success of flood‐related adaptation programs. Using cross‐sectional household survey data from rice farmers of eastern Nepal, this study explores existing adaptation practices along with the factors influencing farmers' adaptation strategies. Both parametric and semiparametric forms of the binary choice model are employed to assess key determinants of flood adaptation. The results reveal that existing adaptation practices are limited to conventional seed storage and few (bio)engineering techniques. Both household and farm characteristics, including flood impact indicators, significantly influence farmers' adaptation to flooding hazards. Thus, consideration of these multiple factors in adaptation‐related programs is anticipated to cope with future floods. Prioritising crop insurance over disaster relief programs and revitalization of existing adaptation measures are suggested. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that the semiparametric approach offers a better alternative by lifting the basic assumptions of parametric models. Findings from this article could aid in developing localised adaptation strategies that would ultimately contribute to the resiliency of farming households and the flood‐prone communities as a whole.

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Ex-ante and ex-post coping strategies for climatic shocks and adaptation determinants in rural Malawi

Cited by 62 publications

References 28 publications

Major Climate risks and Adaptation Strategies of Smallholder Farmers in Coastal Bangladesh

Major Climate risks and Adaptation Strategies of Smallholder Farmers in Coastal Bangladesh

Climate change adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers in Nigeria: does non-farm employment play any role?

Determinants of flood adaptation: Parametric and semiparametric assessment

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