Abstract
This study was carried to understand socioeconomic factors affecting knowledge and adaption of climate change among farmers of Banke district, with the hope that knowledge about climate change and their adaption strategy can be targeted properly among farmers and their empowerment can be achieved. All the farmers from Bageshwori Village Development committee were the target population for this study. Ninety households were selected as sampling respondents for this study. The study showed that 42.22% of the respondents know about climate change. The study revealed that 35% of the respondents know about climate change through self-experiences by comparing the past and present events of climatic parameters. Local radio and social organization were the main source of their knowledge about climate change, covering share of 27% and 23% of the respondents’ means of knowledge. Age, gender and education of household head, contact to the extension workers, farming experience, presence of NGO/INGO and access to mass media found to be determinants of awareness of climate change with positive effect, except for household head age. Gender of household head, total annual income of family, farming experience, access to mass media, education of household head, farm size, presence of NGO/INGO and contact to extension workers were found to be determinants of climate change adoption. No decision is taken in vacuum, peoples’ surrounding, and experience surely affects. So, to move forward and achieve climate smart agriculture these socioeconomic factors should be accounted while planning and implementation of program, project or policies.
Highlights
Earth’s climate tends to change over the time, may it be due to natural causes or by human activities
The threat and vulnerability is catastrophic mainly to marginal and remote areas. It is one of the most complex challenges that humankind has to face in the coming decades [2]
Secondary information was mainly collected through reviewing different publications published by Ministry of Agriculture Development (MoAD), Department of Agriculture (DOA), Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM), Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Nepalese Agriculture Research Council (NARC), District Agriculture Development Office
Summary
Earth’s climate tends to change over the time, may it be due to natural causes or by human activities. Climate change is the accumulated status statistical distribution of the weather pattern which extends over very long period of time. It can be referred as the change in average weather condition. Climate change is becoming greater threat to sustainability of agricultural production. It is threatening agriculture dependent livelihood and food security. Climate change and its impacts are clearly visible on ecosystem, human health, farmer’s livelihoods, food security, water resources and tourism sector of Nepal [8]. Smallholder farmers, which include majority of Nepalese farmer, do not have adequate resources for effectively responding to the impacts of climate change, and are highly vulnerable to its negative consequences. This study was carried to understand socioeconomic factors affecting knowledge and adaption of climate change among farmers of Banke district, with the hope that knowledge about climate change and their adaption strategy can be targeted properly among farmers and their empowerment can be achieved
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