气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Rural farmers' perceptions of and adaptations to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does climate-smart agriculture (CSA) matter in Nigeria and Ethiopia?

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DOI	10.1007/s10018-023-00388-8
	Rural farmers' perceptions of and adaptations to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does climate-smart agriculture (CSA) matter in Nigeria and Ethiopia?
	Alhassan, Usman; Haruna, Emmanuel Umoru
发表日期	2024
ISSN	1432-847X
EISSN	1867-383X
英文摘要	The available literature has ignored farmers' perceptions on the benefits and drawbacks of adopting climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in favor of focusing primarily on profitability and economic constraints. We use the Ethiopian Socioeconomic Survey (ESS) and the General Household Survey from 2018 and 2019 to compare Nigeria and Ethiopia, both of which have sizable rural populations to assess farmers' climate change perception and their adaptation options in promoting CSA. We first hypothesize that farmers with high tolerance for risk and stable financial resources are more likely to adopt CSA techniques, relying on the adopter perception theory of agricultural innovations and technologies. We address potential selection bias using the Heckman selection model, and estimate our data using multinomial logistic estimator, as well as standard logistic regression for robustness checks. We find that in both Ethiopia and Nigeria, household income and plot size influence farmers' adaptations to climate change mitigation practices. However, farmers with bigger plots who run the risk of massive production loss tend to adopt measures of coping with climate change. We show that in both Ethiopia and Nigeria, rural farmers' adaptation decisions are heavily influenced by agricultural extension programs and community social networks. Overall, our work highlights the important role of income, farm size, and climate-related information for investing in climate-smart agricultural methods to curb food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa.
英文关键词	Climate-smart agriculture; Farmer perception; Adaptation; Policy; Sub-Saharan Africa; J43; O12; O14; Q14; Q16
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics
WOS类目	Economics
WOS记录号	WOS:001163076100001
来源期刊	ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY STUDIES
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/308156
作者单位	Ritsumeikan University; Kobe University
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Alhassan, Usman,Haruna, Emmanuel Umoru. Rural farmers' perceptions of and adaptations to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does climate-smart agriculture (CSA) matter in Nigeria and Ethiopia?[J],2024.
APA	Alhassan, Usman,&Haruna, Emmanuel Umoru.(2024).Rural farmers' perceptions of and adaptations to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does climate-smart agriculture (CSA) matter in Nigeria and Ethiopia?.ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY STUDIES.
MLA	Alhassan, Usman,et al."Rural farmers' perceptions of and adaptations to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does climate-smart agriculture (CSA) matter in Nigeria and Ethiopia?".ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY STUDIES (2024).