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FARMER’S PERCEPTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND DETERMINANTS OF ADAPTATION STRATEGIES IN ETHIOPIA: EVIDENCE FROM WEGERA DISTRICT

Tesfaye Sisay Mengistu

Volume: 10 Issue: 2 2020

Abstract:

This study aims to assess the effects of climate change on smallholder farmers’ livelihood inWogera district central Gondar, Ethiopia. Systematic random sampling method was used to select 333 sample households. Structured and semistructured questionnaires were distributed for these sample households for interview. The analysis of data was done by using a descriptive statistics FGD, key informant interview; Mann-Kendall test and multinomial logistic regression model were employed. This study revealed that 83.90% of the respondents perceived that there is a change in climate parameters overtime. Temperature and rainfall variation are the dominant climatic variables in the study area. The respondents perceived that, due to the effects of climate change decline in crop yield, food shortage, death of livestock, health problem, decline in consumption and water scarcity are common problem in the study area. The results of this study also showed that education attainment, farming experience, access to extension services, access to climate information and credit access are positively to enhance farmers’ adaptive capacity to climate change and variability. However, farm land size, and access of adequate water have decreased the farmers’ tendency to adopt various adaptation strategies in the study area. Therefore, this study suggested that introducing and integrating the various adaptation techniques considering the determinants can enable smallholder farmers to design best climate change adaptation strategies.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i02.002

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