Smallholder farmer’s adaptation strategies to climate change: The case of Soro Woreda, Hadiya Zone, South, Ethiopia
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Smallholder farmer’s adaptation strategies to climate change: The case of Soro Woreda, Hadiya Zone, South, Ethiopia
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The aims this study is examine smallholder farmer’s strategy to climate change factors that influence farmers’ choice of adaptation measures and identify adaptation methods to climate change in Ethiopia using Soro district as a case study. Both qualitative and quantitative data obtained using primary and secondary sources. The primary data were collected from 240 randomly selected sample respondents using a survey questionnaire. The adaptation strategies considered in the MNL model analysis were drought tolerate varieties, adjusting planting dates, improved crop varieties, soil and water conservation practices and irrigation. The result from the multinomial logit analysis showed that gender, farm income, agricultural extension services, landholding size , livestock holding , distance to the market, farming experience, agro-ecology, farmers to farmers extension and soil fertility status were significance factors influencing to farmers’ adaptation strategies. On the other hand, in this finding, age, household size, credit and access to climate information were not being a significant influence in choice of strategies. The basic barriers to climate change adaptation on the farmers’ side are luck of knowledge, lack of capital, lack of sufficient land and luck of information. Therefore, future policy should focus on awareness creation on climate change to adaptation through different ways such as mass media and extensions, encouraging informal social networks, improving the availability of credit and enhancing research on use of new crop varieties are more suited in different agro ecological zones.
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