Implications of Climate Change and Adaptation Strategies for Household Food Security: Evidence from Panel Data in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia
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2016-11
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Addis Ababa University
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This study identifies factors that determine decision on adoption of individual/combinations of
climate change adaptation strategies. It also investigates whether the type and combination of
climate change adaptation practices adopted have significant effect on food security of farm
households' and analyzes the possible differences between adopters and non-adopters. The
study uses a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of farmers' choice of
individual/combinations of climate change adaptation strategies and their impacts on
household food security index using panel data collected from 909 farm households in the Nile
Basin of Ethiopia. The study has the following three main findings. First, factors that determine
the adoption decisions vary across individual/packages of adaptation practices under
investigation. Secondly, adoption of climate change adaptation strategies improves the food
security of farm households and the highest improvement is achieved when adaptation
strategies are adopted in combination rather than in isolation. Lastly, those households who
adopt have the advantage of becoming food secure than the non-adopter farm household.
Moreover, for farm households who applied the adaptation strategies analyzed, except
application of crop rotation in isolation, their food security improved and the likelihood of
being food secure increased as farm households adopt practices jointly in their farm plot than
adopting in isolation or not adopting at all. Hence, policy makers and other stakeholders should
work by promoting the use of combinations of climate change adaptation technologies and also
providing households with all the necessary inputs to enhance household food security in the
study area.
Key Words: Food Security Index, multinomial endogenous switching, Climate Change
Adaptation Strategies
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Food Security Index, multinomial endogenous switching, Climate Change Adaptation Strategies