Abstract
Vietnam is one the most vulnerable region to climate change and extreme climatic events, such as flash floods and droughts. This present research aims to explore the farm households’ beliefs, risk perception, adaptive attitude and climate change adaptation measures that they currently utilize in their farms to cope with climatic risks. Further, this study analyzed effect of climate change belief, awareness and adaptive attitudes on farmers’ adaptive behavior. By using structured questionnaire, the data from 816 respondents were collected from seven provinces of Vietnam. We used ordinary least squares regression and logistic regression approach to analyze farmers’ belief, perception of climatic change, and risk attitude towards climatic hazards. Results revealed that farmers in the study area are using the most common climatic risk management strategies including applying new technologies, adjustment of the seasonal calendar, and diversification. Findings further revealed that that farm households were mostly concerned about the risk in soil erosion and washout, followed by the stress of prolonging dry season and droughts. The study participants also reported a decrease in precipitation and increase in temperature and frequency and incidence of other extreme climatic events. A positive significant relationship was found between farm management practices and ecological communities. Risk perceptions and attitude toward climate change are essential factors among farm households of northern mountains of Vietnam. Thus, the climate strain linked with the institutional stress and socio-economic has serious insinuations for farm households’ livelihood bases, a universal climate change adaptation scheme is required to endure farmers’ livelihood.
Highlights
MethodsA structured questionnaire was used in this study including questions about farmers’ perception related to various weather threats (droughts, extreme rainfall, landslide, etc.), farmers’ beliefs about the weather changes or irregularities in their agricultural production, timely climate risk coping techniques and so on
Effect of climate change on agricultural sector is one of the major challenges in the farming sector
The answers were detail ordered as follow: 1 represents the view that climatic events are occurring, that lead to make changes in environment and take full responsibility for climatic variations, 2 represents the view that climatic events are occurring, and it is mainly caused by man-made activities, 3 represents that the climatic variations are occurring, and it is because of environmental changes and man-made activities, and 4 represents the people who showed agreement that there is no sufficient evidence exists to observe that climate change is occurring or not
Summary
A structured questionnaire was used in this study including questions about farmers’ perception related to various weather threats (droughts, extreme rainfall, landslide, etc.), farmers’ beliefs about the weather changes or irregularities in their agricultural production, timely climate risk coping techniques and so on. We measured risk perception by creating an average response scale with eight items mainly focused on farm households’ concerns about hazards to their production (droughts and flash floods, extreme rainfall etc.). To learn about the risk coping techniques investigation, we built a question by following the studies of Hogan et al [20] as they conducted study in Australia and Arbuckle et al [19] conducted survey in America.
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