Farmers Perception towards Climate Change Mitigation and their Adaptation Responses: the case of Essera District of Dawuro Zone, SNNPR
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Farmers’ perception, climate change, adaptation, mitigation and EsseraAbstract
Purpose: This study aimed to fill this gap by assessing and investigating the perception of farmers’ towards climate change and their adaptation responses Essera woreda. The study was conducted in Essera district to achieve the general objective, which is to investigate the perception of farmers’ towards climate change and their adaptation responses. Taken as a whole, this study assessed the potential impact of climate change on farmers’ socio-economic and the options for adaptations, in order to provide a meaningful insight and contribute to efforts aimed at ensuring sustainable development of farmers.
Methodology: The study involved a combined sampling, i.e. a combination of purposive, stratified, and simple random sampling procedures to select the study area and sample households.
Results: From the sample of 80HH, the result indicates that 79% of the heads of household are male that means 63 male headed 17 female headed households were used. The results revealed that respondents’ age, educational status, sex, family size, access to extension services, wealth (farm size, number of farming oxen, cattle, ruminant animals and pack animals), farming experience and exposures to mass media have positive/negative and significant effect on farmers perception on climate change and adaptation. In addition, it indicates that the female-headed households are more likely perceive climate change and take up adaptation methods as they have more affected by climate change. Moreover, farmers living in the lowland areas have perceived climate change as compared to midland and highlands. This is due to the fact that lowland areas are already hotter and a marginal change in temperature could be perceived easily. As observed from the study, farmers live in kola agro-ecological zone are more perceived than farmers in woyina dega. Moreover, access to credit has negative and significant effect on climate change perception and adaptation.
Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: Governmental institutions like agriculture and natural resources management office, meteorology agency, research institution, universities and NGOs have to facilitate research and extension services to provide adequate extension information services to ensure that farmers receive up-to date information about rainfall and temperature patterns in the forthcoming season so that they can make well informed decisions about their planting datesDownloads
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