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This paper assesses factors governing farmers’ decision to adopt adaptation/risk-mitigating strategies and evaluates … adaptation variable. We find that favourable rainfall outcome affect positively the decisions to adopt short-term inputs such as … between adaptation strategies and food security. …
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adjusting crops, rotations, and production practices. Such adaptation, using existing crop production technologies, can …
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adaptation strategy. Investigation on how climatic variability influences irrigation adoption was performed as well as whether … this adaptation measure actually reduces producers’ vulnerability to climate change. We used matching methods to analyze … period. These conclusions confirm the need to invest in adaptation strategies in order to make Brazil ready to cope with the …
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This paper assesses farmers’ perception and adaptation to climate change to enhance policy towards tackling the … challenges climate change poses to the farmers in Ghana. With regards to farmers’ perception and methods of adaptation …, majority of the farmers perceived increase in temperature and decrease in rainfall pattern. Farmers’ level of adaptation was …
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interdisciplinary framework of limits and barriers to agricultural climate change adaptation. In: Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R …
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Infrastructure systems and services (ISS) are vulnerable to changes in climate. This paper reports on a study of the impact of gradual climate changes on ISS in Hamilton City, New Zealand. This study is unique in that it is the first of its kind to be applied to New Zealand ISS. This study also...
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Maize is an important staple crop in Africa but is severely affected by frequent droughts leading to crop failure. Drought tolerant maize (DTM) has been recognised as one of the most important innovations necessary for maize farmers to be able to adapt to climate change and is, therefore,...
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This study analyzed determinants of farm-level climate adaptation measures in Africa using a multinomial choice model … information about adaptation to climate change, including technological and institutional methods, particularly for poor farmers …
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Agriculture in Malawi is vulnerable to the impacts of changing climate. Adaptation is identified as one of the options … change adaptation choices by smallholder farmers in Malawi. We sampled 900 farmers from all three regions of Malawi, using … the multistage sampling procedure, study piloted in 2012. We analyzed smallholder farmers’ climate change adaptation …
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In this paper we use the TOA-MD model to test climate change impacts and adaptation strategies with socioeconomic …-os. Most particularly, introducing an intensive and extended (I&E) irrigation technology as a climate change adaptation … economic outcomes associated with different adaptation strategies. …
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