Climate Variability Adaptation Strategies in Coffee Production, And It’s Implication to Household Food Security: The Case Of Nansabo Woreda, West Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Climate change is the biggest challenges of the 21st century. It is one of the greatest
environmental, social and economic threats facing our world today. Disasters generated by the
phenomenon of climatic modification have deep influence on agriculture. Ethiopia is vulnerable
to the impacts of climate change mainly due to poor adaptive capacity of communities and high
diversity of agro ecologies, cultures, production systems and livelihood strategies. The effect of
climate change and variability is adversely affecting coffee production in study area. However,
no study has been conducted concerning the issue of climate change adaptation strategies on
coffee production and its implication to rural household food security. The study is motivated by
the belief that the effect of climate change on coffee production is high while less understood in
the study area. The study was conducted in two kebeles’ of Nansabo Wereda, of Oromia Region.
These Kebeles’ were selected purposely based on their potential to coffee production and
susceptibility to climate change and variability related food insecurity. The study was based on a
total number of 181 coffee producers and which was randomly selected for survey. Descriptive
statistics such as mean, standard deviation and percentage were used to describe sampled
respondents in terms of some desirable variables. A binary logit model was also used to analyze
the factors affecting climate change adaptation strategies. Fifteen variables were included in the
model of which ten were found significant at (P<0.10) probability level. The finding of this study
indicates that age, education level, farm experience, family size, farmland size, market distance,
total Coffee income, access to climate change information, frequency of extension contact and
access to agricultural information services, were found to be highly important variables
influencing factors for Climate change adaptation strategies.The ranking of adaptation
strategies which based on coffee producers households’perceived one of the best strategies
mentioned in in this study. From eight adaptation options three of them particularly shade
management, improved coffee varieties and intercropping strategies were the first three with
WAI;2.3,2.21 and 2.2, respectively. The finding of metherological data indicates that in study
area, changes in climate particularly rainfall and temperature patterns were reported by more
than half of the surveyed households. The survey results indicates that households perceived
erratic rain fall increase and/or decrease in annual rainfall has resulted in prolonged dry spells
and droughts.
Key Words: Climate Variability; Adaptation Strategies; Coffee Production; Food Security,
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Climate Variability; Adaptation Strategies; Coffee Production; Food Security