Farmer's Perceptions and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change, Its Determinants and Impacts in Ethiopia: Evidence from Qwara District

Gedefaw, Melakeneh G.; Girma, Atkilt; Denghua, Y; Hao, Wei; Agitew, Genanew

doi:10.4172/2157-7617.1000481

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“…Another implication of the result is that farmers' financial resources and ability to care for their livestock are a function of the choice of their livestock feeding regime. This implication is in line with Gedefaw et al (2018). Similarly, the level of other livestock-related costs also had a negative and significant effect on the probability of using mainly grazing with some feeding.…”

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“…This relationship may be connected to education being anticipated to improve the household's capacity for acquiring, interpreting, and understanding information necessary to make wise decisions on what livestock feeding regime to use with their animals (Getachew et al, 2014). Knowledgeable farmers are more inclined than their counterparts to make proactive decisions regarding their livestock feeding options (Alemayehu and Bewket, 2017;Belay et al, 2017;Gedefaw et al, 2018). As the cost of compensation by livestock-producing households increases, this is associated with the probability of the use of grazing increasing by 0.132, while the probability of use of mainly feeding with some grazing declines by 0.07 and only feeding (zero-grazing) declines by 0.05.…”

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AKADEMIYA2063 Working Paper Series - N.008

Obayelu

2023

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AKADEMIYA2063 Working Papers are peer-reviewed publications by AKADEMIYA2063 scientists and collaborators. Published on the AKADEMIYA2063 website (open access), the AWPS aims to provide broad and timely access to significant insights and evidence from our ongoing research activities and that of our collaborators. The APWS series provides access to relevant evidence for policymakers, researchers, analysts, and broad stakeholder communities on development topics of strategic importance.With a scope spanning African countries and regions or issues with relevance to the African context in terms of learning or replication, the AWPS encompasses a wide range of strategic and operational topics, including but not limited to agricultural growth and transformation; industrialization; economic integration; poverty reduction, food security and livelihoods; natural resource management and environmental protection; and digital agriculture.

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AKADEMIYA2063 Working Paper Series - N.008

Obayelu

2023

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“…Climate change affects the economic growth of developing countries due to its multiple interdependent effects on different sectors including, agriculture, health, forestry, fisheries and tourism (Kahsay et al, 2019;Lawson et al, 2019;Gedefaw et al, 2018;Weldegerima et al, 2018;Kompas et al, 2018;Kebede and Gizachew, 2017). Currently, the unfolding change in climate with its effect on temperature and rainfall affects all aspects of the food system including, food production and availability, access, quality, utilization and stability of food systems (Collins et al, 2013;Bryan et al, 2013); and it is also true in Ethiopia (NAP-ETH [Ethiopia's National Adaptation Plan], 2019).…”

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“…Also, location-specific information about each adaptation strategy is required for different stakeholders to make positive interventions in the adaptation process (Kahsay et al, 2019;Yamba et al, 2019). Different studies have been conducted to provide information on farmers' perception toward climate change, adaptation level and factors affecting the adaptation level of smallholder farmers by using Probit, Logit, Tobit and Heckman econometric models to enhance their adaptation level in a different region of Ethiopia (Gedefaw et al, 2018;Paulos and Belay, 2018;Birhane et al, 2020;Debela et al, 2015;Habtemariam et al, 2016;Abrha et al, 2017;Addisu et al, 2016;Beliyneh et al, 2013). However, the majority of the literature in the field of climate change in Ethiopia including literature reviewed for this study are largely documented based on information from smallholders farmers adaptation habits in the Northern and Northwestern part of Ethiopia and only a few from the Eastern part of Oromia region.…”

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Smallholder farmers’ perception of climate change and adaptation strategy choices in Central Ethiopia

Addis

Abirdew

2021

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Purpose Smallholder farmers have always been profoundly the first to be impacted by climate change, and therefore, farmers understanding of climate change and accessibility to alternative adaptation strategies are crucial for reducing the effect of climate change. The purpose of this study is to assess the perception of farmers to climate change, adaptation strategies and determinants of adaptation choice in central Ethiopia. Design/methodology/approach The study used data from randomly selected 240 farm households. Descriptive statistics were used to describe farmers’ perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies. Also, a multivariate probit model was used to identify the major factors affecting farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies to climate change in central Ethiopia. Findings Smallholder farmers perceive climate change in the past two decades in response; the majority (91.47%) of farmers used adaptation options. Improved crop varieties and input intensity, crop diversification, planting date adjustment, soil and water conservation activities and changing of the crop type were used as adaptation options in the study area. A few of these strategies were significantly confirmed a complementary and supplementary relationship. The study identified sex, family size, agroecology, climate information, crop-fail history and formal extension service as significant determinants for farmers’ adaptation choices as these variables significantly affected more than two farmers’ adaptation strategies simultaneously. Research limitations/implications Farmers’ choice of adaptation was highly constrained by institutional factors and all these identified factors can be possibly addressed through a better institutional service provision system. It is, therefore, recommended that local administrators should explore the institutional service provision system for a better farm-level adaptation while considering demographic characteristics as well. Originality/value This study identified factors affecting farmers’ several adaptation strategies at a time and provides information for the policymaker to make cost-effective interventions for better farm-level adaptation practices.

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“…Climate change is one of the challenges to environment-human security and poses agreat threat to the livelihood of people who rely more in the agriculture sector in the world (Tesfahunegn et al, 2016, Gedefaw et al, 2018. Moreover, In Sub Saharan Africa , where smallholder farmers dominate the agriculture sector and are most vulnerable to adverse effects of climate change, it continues to strongly shock agriculture (Juana et al, 2013, Seid andTamiru, 2015).…”

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Review on Perception and Adaptation Strategies of Smallholder Farmers’ to Climate Change in Ethiopia

Kenea¹

2020

IAGS

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Ethiopian Smallholder farmers is highly vulnerable to climate variability and change due to its great reliance on climate sensetive economy .Different empirical evidence's has put forward about climate change perception and adaptation practices.However, the findings of major studies are highly aggregated and are of little help in addressing local peculiarities of perception and adaptation strategies .While, others were vague to understandand and finally difficult to implement at farm level. Hence ,this paper reviews the empirical literature on smallholder farmers' perceptions and adaptation strategies of climate change in Ethiopia with specific objectives of; to review the Smallholder framers' perception to climate change, to identify climate change adaptation strategies used by Smallholder farmers' and to review factors that determine smallholder farmers choice of climate change adaptation strategies in Ethiopia.This paper was prepared through wide spread review of empirical evidence's. The review found that the majority of farmers in Ethiopia are aware of climate change in average change in temperatures and rainfall pattern with passion of weather extremes such as droughts ,floods,pest and disease manifestation. To deal with up the unfavorable sound effects of climate change, farmers have adopted strategies like crop diversification, using improved varieties, changing planting and harvesting dates, irrigation, planting tree crops, water and soil conservation techniques,switching to non-farm income activities, marketing during forage shock, using drought tolerant breed andfodder preservation.But , preference of adaptation strategies differs from place to place, farms to farms, and households capacity. At household level, most of the empirical evidence revealed Agro-ecological setting, sex, education level, landholding, farm income, non-farm income, livestock ownership, access to credit, extension visit, farmer-to-farmer extension, access to climate information and average distance from home to the farm have significant influence on the choice of climate adaptation strategies.The review result depicted that there is much dearth of empirical evidences regarding livestock sectors so far as much of the research is focused on crop sector's.Therefore, it has been suggested to further investigate deep rooted emperical evidence's on adaptation strategies of livestock sectors and available indigenous knowledge especially in pastoral areas.Further more, there is a need to explore impacts of climate change and single adaptation strategies on livelihood of smallholder's farmers at each farm level autonomously.

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Farmer's Perceptions and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change, Its Determinants and Impacts in Ethiopia: Evidence from Qwara District

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AKADEMIYA2063 Working Paper Series - N.008

AKADEMIYA2063 Working Paper Series - N.008

Smallholder farmers’ perception of climate change and adaptation strategy choices in Central Ethiopia

Review on Perception and Adaptation Strategies of Smallholder Farmers’ to Climate Change in Ethiopia

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