Rural farmers perception and coping strategies towards climate change and their determinants: Evidence from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan
| Autor: | Tariq Shah, Muhammad Ishaq, Aasir Ilyas, Xinyue Ye, Azam Tariq, Abdullah, Adnan Nazir, Liu Ying, Sajjad Ali |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment business.industry 020209 energy Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Market access Climate change 02 engineering and technology Building and Construction Livelihood Investment (macroeconomics) Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Geography Agriculture Scale (social sciences) Perception 050501 criminology 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering business Land tenure Socioeconomics 0505 law General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Cleaner Production. 291:125250 |
| ISSN: | 0959-6526 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.125250 |
| Popis: | Climate change has severe consequences not at just local, regional but also at a global scale. Since such shifts in the climate, the substantial agriculture sector of Pakistan has been suffering widely from its drastic change. The present study is carried out in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province of Pakistan, to explore the perception of smallholder farmers related to climate change. Data is collected from 400 smallholder farmers of Malakand, Mardan and Swabi districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. This study expounds the perception of farmers and their farming adaptations to variations in climatic occurrence. Binary logistic regression was employed to discover the aspects that shape smallholder farmer’s adaptation strategies. Our results depicted that the awareness and farm household’s exploits methods for climate change adaptation were common throughout the study area. The main adaptation strategies carried out or executed by the smallholder farmers were irrigation, non-farm activities and early planting schemas. This research identified the barriers to climate change adaptation were lack of money, unavailability of required seed, nonexistence of market access, insecure land tenure system and shortage of information. The findings of the study recommend improving farmer’s awareness and providing timely information about climate change. To improve farmer’s well-being, adequate extension services and greater investment facilities are required to support farmers to sustain their livelihoods in the long run to cope with climate change. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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