Smallholder Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Evidence from Adwa Woreda of Tigray Region
Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The objective of this study was the factors that influence farmers’ choice of adaptation measures and identifies adaptation methods to climate change in Ethiopia using Adwa Woreda as a case study. The data was collected from 160 sample households using a survey questionnaire and was analyzed using both descriptive statistics and econometric methods. Multinomial logit model (MNL) was used to identify factors influencing farmers’ choice of adaptation strategies to climate change and variability. The adaptation strategies considered in the MNL model analysis were crop variety, improve crop and livestock, soil and water conservation practices and irrigation. The result from the multinomial logit analysis showed that age, family size, farm income, farm size, distance to the farm, distance to the market, access to credit, livestock holding (TLU), farm to farm extension and access to climate information are significance factors influencing to farmers’ adaptation strategies. The basic barriers to climate change adaptation on the farmers’ side are luck of knowledge, lack of capital, lack of sufficient land and luck of information. Therefore, future policy should focus on awareness creation on climate change to adaptation through different ways such as mass media and extensions, encouraging informal social networks, improving the availability of credit and enhancing research on use of new crop varieties are more suited in different agro ecological zones.
Author: Gebru Tesfay Kide
Language: English
Subfield: Agronomy and Crop Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Mekelle University
OpenAlex ID: W1527539856