Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation Strategies in Rural Sahel

By O. Mertz, C. Mbow, A. Reenberg, A. Diouf. Environmental Management, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Soil Science

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Adapting agriculture to climate change in Kenya: household strategies and determinants. (2013, background): “Farmers’ behavior is shaped more by their perceptions of climate change and climate risk, rather than by the actual climate patterns as measured by scientific methods (Adger et al., 2009; Mertz et al., 2009).”
Environmental cognitions, land change, and social–ecological feedbacks: an overview (2013, background): “Often, this perspective is used to explain how local agents adapt to environmental change that they cannot mitigate – typically climate change – which therefore does not correspond to a complete feedback loop (eg, Alessa, Kliskey, Williams, and Barton, 2008 ; Mertz, Mbow, Reenberg, and Diouf, 2009”
Linking smallholder farmer climate change adaptation decisions to development (2016, background): “More specifically, lack of credit and/or financial capital was consistently reported as a barrier to adaptive behaviours (e.g. Mertz et al., 2009; Tambo & Abdoulaye, 2013; Tucker et al., 2010), while access to credit was positively associated with adaptive behaviours (e.g. Bryan et al., 2013;…”
Adaptation strategies and climate vulnerability in the Sudano‐Sahelian region of West Africa (2011, background): “Despite centuries of experience adapting to harsh natural conditions (Mortimore and Adams, 2001; Tschakert, 2007; Mertz et al., 2009), the vulnerability of these countries and their populations to increased climate variability and change is of great concern and has attracted considerable research…”
Livelihood adaptations to climate variability: insights from farming households in Ghana (2014, methodology): “Farmers’ perceptions of climate variability are increasingly used in climate vulnerability and adaptation studies (Maddison 2007; Mertz et al. 2009).”
Smallholder Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Change and Conservation Agriculture: Evidence from Zambia (2011, background): “Mertz et al (2009) asserts that change in land use and livelihood strategies is driven by a range of factors of which climate change appears not to be the most important.”
Role of non-timber forest products in sustaining forest-based livelihoods and rural households' resilience capacity in and around protected area: a Bangladesh study† (2015, background): “2015 University of Newcastle upon Tyne Vol. 59, No. 4, 628 642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2015.1035774 also finds that, in some 60 developing countries, hunting and fishing on forested land supplies over a fifth of people’s protein requirements (Mery et al. 2005).”
Farmers’ perception of climate change in mediterranean Chile (2015, background): “…reveal that farmers in different parts of the world do perceive their local climate as changing (Hageback et al. 2005; Deressa 2008; Bryan et al. 2009; Mertz et al. 2009; Osbahr et al. 2011; Sofoluwe et al. 2011; Chaudhary and Bawa 2011; Manandhar et al. 2011; Halder et al. 2012, and others).”