Smallholder Farmers’ Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change in Kurmuk District, Ethiopia

Asaye Damera Ayansa,Amsalu Bedemo,Gemechu Ordofa Jara

doi:10.11114/aef.v8i5.5362

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Abstract

Ethiopia is among the countries experiencing frequent drought and highly vulnerable to climate change associated impacts. Adaptation to climate change impacts are key element for sustainable development of economy. The objective of the study was analysis determinates of smallholder farmer’s climate change perception and adaptation options in Kurmuk district. For the study both primary and secondary data sources were employed. The primary data collected from 160 randomly selected sample households. The binary logit and multinomial logit model were employed to identify the factor that determines smallholder farmers’ climate change perception and adaptation strategies respectively. Results revealed that sex, extension service, credit access, climate information and distance from market are significantly affects smallholder farmers’ perception to climate change in kurmuk district, While, sex, education, cultivated land, access to credit services, climate information, access to market, extension service, distance from farm, off-farm income and on-farm income are found statistically significant affected adaptation options of smallholder farmers. Therefore, strengthening extension services, access credit services, disseminating climate and market information, diversification of farmer’s income are among the recommendable mechanisms to advance their perception and adaptation to climate change.

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Climate change is the current most serious challenging and cross cutting issue over the world which will be able to retard the acceleration of sustainable development goal.The climate variability and extremes is a key driver behind the recent rise in global hunger and one of the leading causes of severe food crises (Molotoks et al, 2018).climate change affecting agriculture and food security and challenge of ending hunger and malnutrition (El Bilali et al, 2020)
One of the main objectives of this study was to identify smallholder farmers‟ adaptation strategies to climate change and variability‟s. Previous studies in Africa have used various empirical methods to analyze the perception of climate change variability, determinants of adaptations to climate change and choice of adaptation strategies
This study investigated how smallholder farmers perceive climate change, what adaptation strategies they practice, and factors that influence their adaptation decisions

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Climate change is the current most serious challenging and cross cutting issue over the world which will be able to retard the acceleration of sustainable development goal.The climate variability and extremes is a key driver behind the recent rise in global hunger and one of the leading causes of severe food crises (Molotoks et al, 2018).climate change affecting agriculture and food security and challenge of ending hunger and malnutrition (El Bilali et al, 2020). Low income producers and consumers of food in Africa are more vulnerable to climate change, owing to their comparatively limited ability to invest in more adapted institutions and technologies under increasing climatic risks (Zougmoréet.al., 2021). Climate change impact adaption is key element for sustainable and transformational development of all sectors of economy and in particular agriculture sector. The cause for climate variability and climate change due to the country is dependence on rain-fed agriculture under-development of water resources, low health service coverage, a high population growth rate, low economic development, inadequate road infrastructure in drought prone areas, weak institutional structures, and lack of awareness and relatively low adaptive capacity to deal with these expected changes (Bigger and Webber, 2021)

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