| Summary: | The study was carried out to evaluate how farmers in Kyuso District have perceived and
adapted to climate change. Data was collected from 246 farmers from six locations
sampled out through a multistage and simple random sampling procedure. The Heckman
probit model was fitted to the data to avoid sample selection bias since not every farmer
who may perceive climate change responds by adapting. The analysis revealed that 94%
of farmers in Kyuso District had a perception that climate was changing and as a result,
85% of these farmers had responded by adapting. In this regard, age of the household
head, gender, education, farm experience, household size, distance to the nearest market,
access to irrigation water, local agro-ecology, on and off farm income, access to
information on climate change through extension services, access to credit, changes in
temperature and precipitation were found to have significant influence on the probability
of farmers to perceive and/or adapt to climate change. With the level of perception to
climate change being more than that of adaptation, the study suggests that more policy
efforts should be geared towards helping farmers to adapt to climate change
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