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DOI: 10.3390/su11071921
WOS记录号: WOS:000466551600098
论文题名:
Determinants and Policy Implications of Farmers' Climate Adaptation Choices in Rural Cameroon
作者: Bate, Bate Godwill1; Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon2,3; Amawa, Sani Gur
通讯作者: Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon
刊名: SUSTAINABILITY
ISSN: 2071-1050
出版年: 2019
卷: 11, 期:7
语种: 英语
英文关键词: climate change ; adaptation strategies ; determinants ; policy implications ; rural Cameroon
WOS关键词: STATE
WOS学科分类: Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向: Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
英文摘要:

The issue of climate change and its related impacts is now a social reality. The paradigm shift today in climate change issues is focused on mitigation and adaptation. Besides mitigation, adaptation is considered as an essential strategy for reducing the severity and cost of climate change impacts given the fact that additional future climate change is considered as being inevitable. In this paper, we analyze household socio-economic determinants of climate change adaptation and their policy implications. A survey of 130 farmers in four farm communities in Cameroon was conducted to capture the determinants of farmers' adaptation to climate change. We employed the binary Logistic regression model to assess the determinants of climate adaptation. Results reveal that in the midst of climate change, 78.33% of farmers have adopted rainfall-related adaptation while 63.33% have resorted to temperature-related adaptation. Based on the binary logistic regression, access to road, access to non-farm income source, and membership of farmers' groups were significant determinants for the adoption of temperature-related adaptation options. Furthermore, access to improved seeds was found to be the lone significant determinant for the adoption of rainfall-related adaptation options. All in all, much is required to strengthen farmers' adaptive capacity and increase the range of adaptation options undertaken. As such, policies geared towards building farmers' resilience should effectively capture the following tri-factors: provision of access roads linking farm communities to nearby urban centres, upscaling institutional interventions with regards to providing high quality and resistant seeds to farmers, and incentivizing farmers to create or join social groups in order to facilitate adaptation uptake.


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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/133244
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作者单位: 1.Univ Buea, Dept Geog, Fac Social & Management Sci, POB 63, Buea 00237, Cameroon
2.Tech Univ Dresden, Fac Environm Sci, Inst Trop Forestry & Forest Prod, D-01062 Dresden, Germany
3.Catholic Univ Cameroon CATUC, Dept Geog & Environm Studies, POB 782, Bamenda 00237, Cameroon

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Bate, Bate Godwill,Kimengsi, Jude Ndzifon,Amawa, Sani Gur. Determinants and Policy Implications of Farmers' Climate Adaptation Choices in Rural Cameroon[J]. SUSTAINABILITY,2019-01-01,11(7)
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