Farmers’ Risk Perception on Climate Change: Transhumance vs. Semi-Intensive Sheep Production Systems in Türkiye
Sheep farmers’ perceptions of climate change and its impacts and the adaptation strategies they consider to address these risks are of great importance in ensuring the resilience of farming practice. This study focused on sheep farmers’ perception of climate change and the risks and actions taken to...
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| author | Sezen Ocak Yetisgin Hasan Önder Uğur Şen Dariusz Piwczyński Magdalena Kolenda Beata Sitkowska Ceyhun Yucel |
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| description | Sheep farmers’ perceptions of climate change and its impacts and the adaptation strategies they consider to address these risks are of great importance in ensuring the resilience of farming practice. This study focused on sheep farmers’ perception of climate change and the risks and actions taken to mitigate these impacts. A total of 68 surveys were carried out among sheep farmers (39 transhumance and 29 semi-intensive farmers) by two different representative production systems in Türkiye. Variables regarding the socio-economic profile, climate change impacts, and adaptation strategies were identified and analyzed. Principal component analysis and a Pearson Chi-square test were used to evaluate the data. Both farmers’ groups accepted and perceived climate change, showing good awareness and perception. The farmers’ attitudes towards adaptation to climate change were associated with production systems. Transhumance farmers had limited adaptation and coping strategies compared to semi-intensive farmers. Transhumance farmers focused mainly on selling livestock (mostly to cope with degraded natural grassland/feed deficiency) as an adaptive strategy. In contrast, semi-intensive farmers focused on modifying their farm management and feed operations, such as changing the feed ratio and supplement use, improving water and feed storage, and considering crop feed production. The knowledge obtained from this study could be helpful for farmers and policymakers who develop long-term small ruminant production strategies that consider the effects of climate change and adapt them to different farming systems in the Türkiye. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-99da3c4a79874281b19dcbc677ee1f282023-12-03T12:26:21ZengMDPI AGAnimals2076-26152022-08-011215199210.3390/ani12151992Farmers’ Risk Perception on Climate Change: Transhumance vs. Semi-Intensive Sheep Production Systems in TürkiyeSezen Ocak Yetisgin0Hasan Önder1Uğur Şen2Dariusz Piwczyński3Magdalena Kolenda4Beata Sitkowska5Ceyhun Yucel6Department of Animal Science, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun 55139, TürkiyeDepartment of Animal Science, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun 55139, TürkiyeDepartment of Agricultural Biotechnology, Ondokuz Mayis University, Samsun 55139, TürkiyeDepartment of Animal Biotechnology and Genetic, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, PolandDepartment of Animal Biotechnology and Genetic, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, PolandDepartment of Animal Biotechnology and Genetic, Faculty of Animal Breeding and Biology, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, PolandOrganic Agriculture Program, Graduate Education Institute, Taşlıçiftlik Campus, Gaziosmanpaşa University, Tokat 60000, TürkiyeSheep farmers’ perceptions of climate change and its impacts and the adaptation strategies they consider to address these risks are of great importance in ensuring the resilience of farming practice. This study focused on sheep farmers’ perception of climate change and the risks and actions taken to mitigate these impacts. A total of 68 surveys were carried out among sheep farmers (39 transhumance and 29 semi-intensive farmers) by two different representative production systems in Türkiye. Variables regarding the socio-economic profile, climate change impacts, and adaptation strategies were identified and analyzed. Principal component analysis and a Pearson Chi-square test were used to evaluate the data. Both farmers’ groups accepted and perceived climate change, showing good awareness and perception. The farmers’ attitudes towards adaptation to climate change were associated with production systems. Transhumance farmers had limited adaptation and coping strategies compared to semi-intensive farmers. Transhumance farmers focused mainly on selling livestock (mostly to cope with degraded natural grassland/feed deficiency) as an adaptive strategy. In contrast, semi-intensive farmers focused on modifying their farm management and feed operations, such as changing the feed ratio and supplement use, improving water and feed storage, and considering crop feed production. The knowledge obtained from this study could be helpful for farmers and policymakers who develop long-term small ruminant production strategies that consider the effects of climate change and adapt them to different farming systems in the Türkiye.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/15/1992livestocksheepclimate change‘farmers’ perceptionadaptationTürkiye |
| spellingShingle | Sezen Ocak Yetisgin Hasan Önder Uğur Şen Dariusz Piwczyński Magdalena Kolenda Beata Sitkowska Ceyhun Yucel Farmers’ Risk Perception on Climate Change: Transhumance vs. Semi-Intensive Sheep Production Systems in Türkiye Animals livestock sheep climate change ‘farmers’ perception adaptation Türkiye |
| title | Farmers’ Risk Perception on Climate Change: Transhumance vs. Semi-Intensive Sheep Production Systems in Türkiye |
| title_full | Farmers’ Risk Perception on Climate Change: Transhumance vs. Semi-Intensive Sheep Production Systems in Türkiye |
| title_fullStr | Farmers’ Risk Perception on Climate Change: Transhumance vs. Semi-Intensive Sheep Production Systems in Türkiye |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farmers’ Risk Perception on Climate Change: Transhumance vs. Semi-Intensive Sheep Production Systems in Türkiye |
| title_short | Farmers’ Risk Perception on Climate Change: Transhumance vs. Semi-Intensive Sheep Production Systems in Türkiye |
| title_sort | farmers risk perception on climate change transhumance vs semi intensive sheep production systems in turkiye |
| topic | livestock sheep climate change ‘farmers’ perception adaptation Türkiye |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/12/15/1992 |
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