Farmers’ Perception and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change: Implications to Household Food Security in Lay Gayint District, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
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2020-11
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Climate change is a global phenomenon rapidly emerging as one of the most serious threats that
humanity ever faces. Its impact on developing countries with limited adaptive capacity has become
a pressing issue as it highly affects the performance of agricultural production and food security.
This study was designed to examine the situations of climate variability and its implications to food
security. To achieve the stated purpose, the researcher used explanatory research design. It is
based on analysis of data collected from 354 randomly selected household farmers and all 6
agriculture experts were included from 6 agriculture experts and decade’s document analysis from
NMA. Frequency and percentage are in this study. The data collection instrument was
questionnaire from 354 farmers; key informant interview used to analyze farmers’ perception and
adaptation to climate change whereas standard anomaly is applied to analyze Climate trends and
Variability. The results indicated that both maximum and minimum temperature has been
increasing and rainfall had a fluctuating trend during the last three decades and it impacts on
agricultural production and food security. The majority of the participants were perceived there
was climate change. However the adaptation mechanisms was low and vary from individual to
individuals; because of this almost 88 % of the farmers were not secure their household food
security. Eventually, it is recommended that the government, agriculture experts and farmers
should Promoting farm-level climate change adaptation mechanism to increase the household food
security.
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Climate change/ variability; Adoption; Perception; Food security; Farmers