Rural farmers perception and coping strategies towards climate change and their determinants: Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan

Ali, Sajjad; Liu, Ying; Nazir, Adnan; Khan, Mir Azam; İshaq, Muhammad; Shah, Tariq; Ye, Xinyue; Ilyas, Aasir; Tariq, Azam

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125250

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“…Consistent with the present result, past reports have described that the low awareness of weather conditions also affected the farmers' adoption strategies in rainfed farming systems and resulted in poor agricultural practices [69,70]. In agreement with the present results, the reports from the study province also indicate that an unsustainable climate and weather situations affect the farmers' adoption [71]. Together with uncertain weather conditions, nonadoption is reported as the proximate cause of crop failure [72].…”

Section: Lack Of Accurate Weather Predictabilitysupporting

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Determinants of Farmers’ Awareness and Adoption of Extension Recommended Wheat Varieties in the Rainfed Areas of Pakistan

2022

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Scientific evidence suggests that there is room for eradicating poverty and hunger by increasing food production through the adoption of modern agricultural practices by farmers. This study aimed, first, to explore the relationship between the farmers’ awareness and adoption of improved wheat varieties. Second, it aimed to find the key factors that govern the farmers’ awareness and adoption of extension-recommended innovations in the rainfed cropping system of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Data were collected from 395 respondents. A binary logit model was used to analyze the effect of the farmers’ socioeconomic and farm-specific characteristics on their awareness and adoption of the extension-suggested wheat varieties. Moreover, qualitative data from 40 key informants were collected for in-depth analysis. The results show a strong association between the farmers’ awareness of a technology (improved wheat varieties) and its adoption. The results of the logit model show that their extension contacts, income from agriculture, and access to credit positively affected the farmers’ awareness, whereas their education and household sizes negatively affected their awareness. Moreover, the factors that positively influenced the farmers’ decision to adopt the technology included the extension contact, the confidence in the extension, the risk-bearing attitude, and the credit access, whereas the household size and education negatively affected it. The results of the key informant interviews reveal that the high incidence of poverty, the low soil fertility, the farmers’ inability to make effective decisions, the lack of accurate weather predictability in the rainfed farming system, the lack of government interest, and the asymmetric information in the inputs markets contributed to the farmers’ low levels of awareness and to their poor adoption of improved agricultural technologies. These results indicate that any intervention aimed at the awareness and adoption by farmers of improved technologies, such as new wheat varieties, should recognize the heterogeneity in the farmers’ socioeconomic and farm-specific characteristics.

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Determinants of Farmers’ Awareness and Adoption of Extension Recommended Wheat Varieties in the Rainfed Areas of Pakistan

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“…In this research, KPK province was selected as the study domain. The study domain KPK has favorable climatic conditions for wheat and can produce high-quality wheat [64,65,67,68]. Notably, wheat production mainly relies on rainwater in this study area, and only a small number of growers (about 40% of the study area) use irrigation.…”

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Can Cooperative Supports and Adoption of Improved Technologies Help Increase Agricultural Income? Evidence from a Recent Study

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Ray

Kassem

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Global climate change may result in major environmental issues that have already affected and will continue to affect agricultural sector in the future. A continuing effort to utilize and adopt new agricultural technologies is necessary to mitigate climate change and increase agricultural income. Agricultural cooperatives are gradually being used in emerging countries to encourage improved technology and reduce food insecurity and poverty. This research analyses the influence of cooperative supports (CS) and technology adoption (TA) on agricultural income in Pakistan. It applied the propensity score matching (PSM) technique to evaluate the productivity on survey data from 498 wheat growers to conduct counterfactual analysis for farmers in Pakistan. In addition, a dual selection model (DSM) was applied to resolve the bias in sample selection caused by observed and unobserved aspects of survey data. The results showed that, contrasted with non-membership and non-adopters, growers who joined CS and TA could boost agricultural income by 2.78% and 2.35%, respectively. Stimulatingly, the influence of less-revenue farmers on agricultural income was more substantial than that of high-income farmers. Agricultural income of growers who attached cooperatives and adopted improved agricultural technology enhanced by 5.45% and 4.51%, respectively. These results, among others, emphasize the optimistic role of growing CS and TA in boosting wheat farmer’s income. The findings of the study showed strong relationships among education, age, skill, training, gender with CS and TA, and agricultural income. Overall, this study can be helpful in conducting similar studies in other emerging/developing countries for wheat or any other crop growers.

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“…(2021) reported that farmers perceive high salinity as the impact of climate change, which decreases rice production in Bangladesh. Meanwhile, the majority of farmers in Pakistan experience specific and unusual climate changes in temperature as well as rainfall intensity in several regencies of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province ( Ali et al., 2021 ). According to Guo et al.…”

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“…As a result, adaptation to the effects of climate change is required in order to reduce the vulnerability of their livelihood systems. Farmers implemented a wide range of adaptation measures in response to climate change conditions, such as non-farm activities ( Ali et al., 2021 ), improved seed variety ( Dendir and Simane, 2021 ), and crop diversification ( Ricart et al., 2022 ). Previous researches have found that farmers who have a good understanding and perception of climate change are more likely to choose the appropriate adaptation strategy ( Fahad et al., 2020 ; Ojo and Baiyegunhi, 2021 ).…”

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Climate change impacts and the rice farmers' responses at irrigated upstream and downstream in Indonesia

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Rural farmers perception and coping strategies towards climate change and their determinants: Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan

Cited by 43 publications

References 66 publications

Determinants of Farmers’ Awareness and Adoption of Extension Recommended Wheat Varieties in the Rainfed Areas of Pakistan

Determinants of Farmers’ Awareness and Adoption of Extension Recommended Wheat Varieties in the Rainfed Areas of Pakistan

Can Cooperative Supports and Adoption of Improved Technologies Help Increase Agricultural Income? Evidence from a Recent Study

Climate change impacts and the rice farmers' responses at irrigated upstream and downstream in Indonesia

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