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1 Danso-Abbeam, G.; Ojo, T. O.; Baiyegunhi, L. J. S.; Ogundeji, A. A.. 2021. Climate change adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers in Nigeria: does non-farm employment play any role? Heliyon, 7(6):E07162. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07162]
Climate change adaptation ; Strategies ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Non-farm employment ; Economic activities ; Nonfarm income ; Diversification ; Households ; Participation ; Socioeconomic environment ; Models / Nigeria
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050418)
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Non-farm employment in agrarian communities in developing countries has received a lot of attention. However, its role in implementing climate change adaptation strategies is rarely discussed. This study employs a cross-sectional data to examine whether rural households in Southwest Nigeria are increasing the extent of climate change adaptation practices through their participation in non-farm employment. To account for selectivity bias, the study used endogenous treatment effect for count data model (precisely Poisson) augmented with the inverse probability-weighted-regression-adjustment (IPWRA) estimator. Both estimators found that rural non-farm jobs increase smallholder farmers' adaptive capacities and that participants would have used less adaptation techniques if they had not participated in non-farm work. Efforts to boost rural development must provide more employment opportunities for farmers, particularly during the off-cropping time. This will help farmers improve their ability to adopt more climate change adaptation strategies and, consequently increase farm productivity.
2 Ojo, T. O.; Adetoro, A. A.; Ogundeji, A. A.; Belle, J. A. 2021. Quantifying the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies and farmers' access to credit in South Africa. Science of the Total Environment, 792:148499. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148499]
Climate change adaptation ; Strategies ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Agricultural credit ; Agricultural productivity ; Drought ; Risk ; Resilience ; Sustainability ; Policies ; Livestock ; Nonfarm income ; Agricultural training ; Gender ; Models / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050471)
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The damaging effects of climate change on agricultural productivity are on the increase. Relevant adaptation strategies are important to cope with climate change risks and sustain agricultural productivity. This study employed descriptive statistics, multivariate probit (MVP) model and endogenous switching regression model (ESRM), to analyze the data collected using a survey questionnaire from four provinces in South Africa. The study estimated the determining factors influencing the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies and credit access among smallholder farmers in the study areas. The empirical results of the multivariate probit model showed that location, access to extension, non-farm income, farming experience, crop and livestock production, susceptibility, agricultural training and access to credit variables influenced the smallholder decision to adopt climate change adaptation strategies. On the other hand, the ESRM showed that location, age, marital status, gender among others, influenced the decision to adopt climate change adaptation strategies. The variables such as location, education, drought experience affected the smallholder farmers' access to credit. Thus, to improve the adaptive capacity of farmers, stakeholders and government must cooperate and collaborate to improve the conditions under which farmers can gain access to climate change information and suitable agricultural credit as well as policy incentives to ensure overall sustainability of the agricultural sector.
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