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Farmers’ risk perception, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change in rural Pakistan

Fahad, Shah ; Wang, Jianling

Land use policy, 2018-12, Vol.79, p.301-309 [同儕審閱期刊]

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Farmers’ risk perception, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change in rural Pakistan
著者: Fahad, Shah ; Wang, Jianling
主題: Access to information ; Adaptation ; Climate ; Climate change ; Climate change adaptation ; Climate variability ; Climatic risks ; Crop yield ; Crops ; Disasters ; Districts ; Drought ; Environmental risk ; Extension services ; Farmers ; Farms ; Fertility ; Fertilizers ; Floods and droughts risks ; Households ; Housing authorities ; Information dissemination ; Information services ; Land tenure ; Natural disasters ; Pakistan ; Pesticides ; Plant diseases ; Policy implementation ; Poverty ; Respondents ; Risk ; Risk perception ; Rural areas ; Scarcity ; Soil fertility ; Soil loss ; Soil water ; Storage ; Variability ; Vulnerability ; Water scarcity ; Water storage
所屬期刊: Land use policy, 2018-12, Vol.79, p.301-309
描述: Pakistan is the world’s most susceptible country to extreme climatic events, such as floods and droughts. This study aims to investigate the risks related to climate variability and the adaptation measures utilized by farm households in their farms to cope with the adverse shocks of climatic disasters. A dataset of 600 respondents was collected using structured questionnaire from four districts namely Charsadda, Mardan, Nowshera and Peshawar of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Findings of the research showed that soil fertility loss, water scarcity, changes in crop yields and crop diseases were the main determinants of climate variability. Further study participants were also utilizing several adaptation techniques such as change in crop type and variety, change fertilizer, seed quality, pesticide, plant shade trees; water storage and farm diversification. Results of our study further showed that in the study area, study participants were facing various constraints in adoption of certain adaptation measures to deal with climate variability, such as shortage of labor, insecure land tenure system, lack of market access, poverty, land of governmental support, lack of access to assets, lack of water sources, lack of credit sources and lack of knowledge and information were the main constraints faced by the farm households. Findings of this research provide useful insights to the responsible authorities for policy implementation. Our study further suggests that the government should provide proper support to the farmers in the shape of access to farm inputs, access to information and extension services on climate variability and adaptation.
出版者: Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd
語言: 英文
識別號: ISSN: 0264-8377
EISSN: 1873-5754
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.08.018
資源來源: Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

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