Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern Zambia
This study assesses the adaptation of smallholder farmers to climate extremes and its contributing factors in Zambia’s southern province. The study employed primary data collected from 270 smallholder farmers, and these constituted the sample size. According to the study's findings, change cro...
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Faculty of Agriculture, Merdeka University Surabaya
2023-03-01
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| description | This study assesses the adaptation of smallholder farmers to climate extremes and its contributing factors in Zambia’s southern province. The study employed primary data collected from 270 smallholder farmers, and these constituted the sample size. According to the study's findings, change crop variety was adopted by 43% of the farmers. Other strategies of adaptation that were employed include; agricultural insurance, change sow/harvest date, crop diversification and soil conservation. The findings also showed that the various strategies of adaptation (agricultural insurance, change sow/harvest date, crop diversification and soil conservation), correlated positively with age, education, distance, farming experience, ownership of a radio, an ox, a plough, and extension source. The study makes the following recommendations; (a) enhancing the education and awareness level of farmers towards climate extreme, (b) improving farmers’ access to agricultural assets (plough, oxen etc), and (c) when developing and implementing adaptation strategies, farming experience should be taken into account. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-853326b3f49d45ce9970455b6bfbb8842023-03-30T07:46:03ZengFaculty of Agriculture, Merdeka University SurabayaAgricultural Science2598-51672597-87132023-03-01629811710.55173/agriscience.v6i2.9494Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern ZambiaKiru Sichoongwe0Jinxia Wang1Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871, China.China Center for Agricultural Policy, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871 China.This study assesses the adaptation of smallholder farmers to climate extremes and its contributing factors in Zambia’s southern province. The study employed primary data collected from 270 smallholder farmers, and these constituted the sample size. According to the study's findings, change crop variety was adopted by 43% of the farmers. Other strategies of adaptation that were employed include; agricultural insurance, change sow/harvest date, crop diversification and soil conservation. The findings also showed that the various strategies of adaptation (agricultural insurance, change sow/harvest date, crop diversification and soil conservation), correlated positively with age, education, distance, farming experience, ownership of a radio, an ox, a plough, and extension source. The study makes the following recommendations; (a) enhancing the education and awareness level of farmers towards climate extreme, (b) improving farmers’ access to agricultural assets (plough, oxen etc), and (c) when developing and implementing adaptation strategies, farming experience should be taken into account.https://agriculturalscience.unmerbaya.ac.id/index.php/agriscience/article/view/94adaptationclimate extremesmallholder farmerszambia |
| spellingShingle | Kiru Sichoongwe Jinxia Wang Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern Zambia Agricultural Science adaptation climate extreme smallholder farmers zambia |
| title | Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern Zambia |
| title_full | Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern Zambia |
| title_fullStr | Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern Zambia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern Zambia |
| title_short | Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern Zambia |
| title_sort | factors affecting the choice of adaptation strategies to climate extremes the case of smallholder farmers in southern zambia |
| topic | adaptation climate extreme smallholder farmers zambia |
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