How do climate change adaptation strategies result in unintended maladaptive outcomes? Perspectives of tomato farmers

Guodaar, Lawrence; Asante, Felix Ankomah; Eshun, Gabriel; Abass, Kabila; Afriyie, Kwadwo; Appiah, Devine Odame; Gyasi, Razak M.; Atampugre, Gerald; Addai, Prince; Kpenekuu, Felix

doi:10.1080/19315260.2019.1573393

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“…The positive effect of secure land tenure on adaptation practices, however, has potential disadvantages when the adaptation yielded unintended maladaptive outcomes. For example, a study on tomato growers in Ghana revealed that the perception of climate variability drives farmer to use more agrochemicals to retain crop production, and these chemicals cause the pollution of nearby water bodies and increase soil acidity above the optimum crop requirements [18]. Similar practices have been identified in rural areas of Indonesia, where watermelon farmers use excessive chemical pesticides to retain production, causing groundwater pollution that damages the quality of water for consumption [92].…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Past exposure to climate-related disaster increases the degree of P-I, which in turn drives farmers to undertake adaptation actions [14,15]. While some studies stressed the benefits of autonomous adaptation, other studies reported that it ultimately results in unintended maladaptive outcomes, such as increasing the farmer's vulnerability to CC, shifting the vulnerability to other stakeholders or sectors, and decreasing the quality of common pooled resources [16][17][18][19]. Thus, assessing a farmer's P-I toward CC is essential in two aspects: First, it provides valuable information about the efforts to encourage autonomous adaptation; second, it provides crucial insight into the effort to avoid maladaptation practices.…”

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Assessing the Role of the Perceived Impact of Climate Change on National Adaptation Policy: The Case of Rice Farming in Indonesia

Rondhi

Khasan

Mori

et al. 2019

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Climate change (CC) is one of the primary threats to the agricultural sector in developing countries. Several empirical studies have shown that the implementation of adaptation practices can reduce the adverse effects of CC. The likelihood of farmers performing adaptation practices is mostly influenced by the degree of CC impact that they perceive. Thus, we identified the characteristics of farmers that affect the degree of the CC impact that they perceive. We used data from the Indonesian Rice Farm Household survey consisting of 87,330 farmers. An ordered probit regression model was used to estimate the effect of each variable on the degree of the perceived impact of CC. The results of this study confirm those of previous empirical studies. Several variables that have been identified as having a positive effect on farmer adaptation practices, such as farmer education, land tenure, irrigation infrastructure, cropping system, chemical fertilizer application, access to extension services, and participation in farmer groups, negatively affect the degree of the perceived impact of CC. However, a different result was found in the estimation of the gender variable. We found that female farmers have a higher CC resilience and ability to withstand climatic shocks and risks than male farmers. Female farmers have a more positive perception of future farming conditions than male farmers. We recommend the implementation of a national adaptation policy that use and expand the channel of agricultural extension services to deliver the planned adaptation policy, and prioritizes farmers with insecure land tenure. Additionally, we encourage the increasing of female involvement in the CC adaptation practices and decision-making processes.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Assessing the Role of the Perceived Impact of Climate Change on National Adaptation Policy: The Case of Rice Farming in Indonesia

Rondhi

Khasan

Mori

et al. 2019

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“…Irrigation was used as a way to enable farmers develop crops without worrying about rain. It is thought to be a good way to improve farmers' access to water and thus their productivity [1]. Irrigation improves agricultural production and stabilizes farmer incomes, but it has depleted groundwater resources due to overexploitation.…”

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“…Climate change is predicted to exacerbate the situation, having a significant influence on crop yields, animal production, and rural communities' livelihoods. Climate change and variability are now posing a significant danger to agriculture, food security, and the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers [1]. Because most smallholder farmers have limited capacity to adapt to climate change due to their low levels of education, low income, restricted land area, and limited access to technical help, markets, and loans.…”

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Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies, Opportunities and Challenges to Climate Change: A Review

Workalemahu¹,

Dawid²

2021

IJFSA

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Agricultural production is the primary source of income for most smallholder farmers. Climate change and variability are currently emerging as a major challenge to agricultural production by smallholder farmers who rely on rain-fed agriculture on small farms. The overall goal of this seminar paper was to examine smallholder farmers' adaptation strategies for increasing crop and livestock production in the face of changing climatic circumstances. Review existing crop and livestock production adaptation strategies, adaptation opportunities, adaptation obstacles, and factors that influence crop and livestock production adaptation strategies under changing climatic circumstances were the specific objectives. Smallholder farmers have used a variety of crop and livestock production adaptation strategies to reduce the impact of climate change and variability-related hazards. Awareness raising and capacity developments are the major important adaptation opportunities for reducing the effect of climate change. Human population growth (large family size), inappropriate land use and forest policies, strategies, and programs, low institutional capacity of local bodies, marginalization of local communities, deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, and decline in soil fertility are all factors that make it difficult for smallholder farmers to adapt to the effects of climate variability and change. Smallholder farmers' choice of Adaptation Strategies is influenced by agro-ecology, access to climate/weather information, gender, education level, and age of the household head, farm income, non-farm income, credit usage, extension service, and distance from the market center.

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“…Thus, CC discourse focuses on mitigation and adaptation (Chambwera and Stage, 2010; Mogomotsi et al, 2020). As empirically posited in literature, the adoption of adaptation strategies therefore remains an important option in mitigating the effect of CC and addressing its prevailing challenges on agricultural production (Deressa et al, 2009; Guodaar et al, 2020; Seo, 2011). CC adaptation has emerged as one of the most important responses to environmental development challenges in the 21st century (Boko et al, 2007).…”

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Determinants of Relevant Constraints Inhibiting Farmers’ Adoption of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in South Africa

Thinda

Ogundeji

Belle

et al. 2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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The adverse effects of climate change on agricultural productivity are on the increase. This study employed both descriptive statistics and the multivariate probit model to estimate factors constraining the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder farmers in the study area. The empirical results of the multivariate probit model showed that a lack of knowledge of climate change constraints was influenced by smallholder farmers’ age, gender, off-farm activity, susceptibility and membership in farmer-based organizations. Thus, to improve the adaptive capacity of farmers, government and development partners should work together to improve the conditions under which farmers can gain access to climate change information and suitable agricultural credit as well as policy incentives aimed at lowering the stringent conditions of borrowing in the agricultural sector.

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How do climate change adaptation strategies result in unintended maladaptive outcomes? Perspectives of tomato farmers

Cited by 22 publications

References 18 publications

Assessing the Role of the Perceived Impact of Climate Change on National Adaptation Policy: The Case of Rice Farming in Indonesia

Assessing the Role of the Perceived Impact of Climate Change on National Adaptation Policy: The Case of Rice Farming in Indonesia

Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies, Opportunities and Challenges to Climate Change: A Review

Determinants of Relevant Constraints Inhibiting Farmers’ Adoption of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in South Africa

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