Abstract
Climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts on arid regions such as Tunisia country. This research uses a “bottom-up” approach, which seeks to gain insights from the farmers themselves based on a farm household in the south-east of Tunisia. Econometric analyses and Main Component analysis was conducted in this research. Finally, probit binary models were estimated to determine the factors influencing adaptation strategies. All actions aimed at improving the resilience of agriculture in Tunisia’s arid regions to climate change, emphasize mainly the strategies adopted by farmers in terms of water management, technical choices and the adopted production systems combined with the experience and local know-how. Others Government policies and national adaptation programs should focus on education facilitate farmers’ access to extension, information and specialized training needed.
Highlights
Agriculture lays a heavy burden on the environment in the process of providing humanity with food and fibers (IPCC, 2007)
The ordered probit regression model was used to find out the contributing factors implicitly to the perception of the phenomenon of climate change and which can play in the development of adaptation strategies
It was found that the perception was raised among the majority of oasis farmers who were well aware that the climate was changing
Summary
Agriculture lays a heavy burden on the environment in the process of providing humanity with food and fibers (IPCC, 2007). Agriculture and food systems as well as the rural economies in the Maghreb and North Africa regions have been experiencing major drastically reduced agricultural production through extreme weather events, such as recurrent droughts and floods in these recent decades (Hassan and Nhemachena, 2008; Deressa et al, 2008). In these regions, the climate variability causes severe impacts on agriculture through long drought periods. Mean temperatures of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia are expected to rise by between 2 and 4°C until 2100
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