Determinants of African farmers’ strategies for adapting to climate change: multinomial choice analysis

By R. Hassan, C. Nhemachena. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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Climate Change Impacts on Water and Agriculture Sectors in Southern Africa: Threats and Opportunities for Sustainable Development (2020, background): “Planned adaptation interventions entail conscious policy decisions to invest in specific adaptations with the aim to improve adaptation capacity of water/agricultural systems or communities, for example, investments in development of adapted crop varieties and livestock breeds; efficient irrigation ”
Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers (2014, methodology): “Moving into a mixed crop livestock system is also related to diversification and adaptation (e.g. Hassan and Nhemachena, 2008; Kurukulasuriya and Mendelsohn, 2008a; Seo and Mendelsohn, 2008).”
Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia (2014, background): “These findings are very consistent with what has been found elsewhere (e.g., Maddison 2006; Deressa et al. 2009; Hassan and Nhemachena 2008; Gbetibouo et al. 2010; Deressa et al. 2011; Di Falco et al. 2011).”
Factors influencing the adaptation of farmers in response to climate change: a review (2019, background): “…size, income, access to agricultural extension, credit, and information (Bryan et al., 2009; Deressa et al., 2009; Deressa et al., 2011; Esham & Garforth, 2013; Fosu-Mensah et al., 2012; Gbetibouo, Hassan, & Ringler, 2010; Hassan & Nhemachena, 2008; Hisali et al., 2011; Ndambiri et al., 2012).”
Smallholder farmers’ adaptation to climate change and determinants of their adaptation decisions in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia (2017, methodology): “A combination of factors influences the farmers’ perception about climate variability and the decision to use the selected adaptation strategies [14, 15].”
Climate Change, Food Security and Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Issues and policy directions. (2011, background): “…Sanghi et al., 1998; Mendelsohn, 2000, Mendelsohn and Dinar, 1999, 2003; Kumar and Parikh, 2001; Reinsborough, 2003; Gbetibouo and Hassan, 2005; Hassan and Nhemachena, 2008; Deressa et al. 2005; Seo et al., 2005; Sene et al. 2006; Ouedraogo et al., 2006; Mano and Nhemachena, 2006; Deressa and…”
Policy support, social capital, and farmers’ adaptation to drought in China (2014, background): “In addition, the personal characteristics of households, and the local socio-economic and physical conditions in the villages are likely to influence the adoption of adaptive measures (Deressa et al., 2009; Hassan and Nhemachena, 2008).”
Migration as adaptation strategy to cope with climate change: A study of farmers’ migration in rural India (2017, background): “Perception of climate change is an important precondition for individual adaptation responses, including farm-level adaptation (Bryan et al., 2009; Hassan and Nhemachena, 2008; Gbetibouo, 2009).”
The effect of climate change and adaptation policy on agricultural production in Eastern Africa (2016, background): “…instance, out of the surveyed farmers, only 5% in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia (Deressa et al. 2009), 3% in Northern provinces of South Africa (Gbetibouo 2009), and 16% in 11 African countries (Hassan and Nhemachena 2008) adopt flexible planting dates to match the delayed or early onset of rainfall.”
Adapting agriculture to climate change in Kenya: household strategies and determinants. (2013, background): “Others have focused on the factors influencing adoption of adaptation strategies and have highlighted ways in which policymakers can support adaptation through the provision of credit, information, inputs, and extension services among other measures (Maddison, 2007; Nhemachena and Hassan, 2008; Gbet”