Local Farmers' Adaptation to Climate Change: In the Case of Gulomkada Woreda, Tigray Region.
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2012-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This study was conducted with aim of assessing farm level adaptation to climate change that
focuses on adaptive capacities and adaptation strategies of farmers make in response to climate
change. The research is specific to the three tabias of Gulomkada Woreda on Shewit Lemlem,
Addis Tesfa and Sebeya on the basis of data gathered through a combination of qualitative
research methods and quantitative household survey. Results obtained in the study revealed that
the adaptive capacities of the study population were poor like the majority of the respondents
low level of education, poor health, limited infrastructural provision, limited access to
agricultural inputs, highly degraded natural resource, poor access to credit and saving in the
study area. The Adaptation strategies employed by the Gulomkada communities were greatly
contributed to curve climate change impacts situations, but these adaptations are directly or
indirectly depend on rainfall in the area. Perhaps the woreda communities employed
combinations of various strategies including joint adaptation activities SlIch as crop production
related adaptation strategies, livestock related adaptations, land degradation and others in the
areas. In conclusion, this research work comes up with that the adaptation strategies to combat
the climate change impacts in the study area were not enough; it was a kind of self-adaptation
strategies which were practiced in disorganized way. Therefore, it is suggested adaptation
measures have to be sensitively integrated with ongoing development pathways to ensure they
are sustainable and relevant to local priorities
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Local Farmers, Adaptation to Climate Change