Determinants of Climate Change Adaptation in Crop Production. The Case of Boset District, Eastern Zone of Oromia, Ethiopia

      Аннотация: ...The result of the ordered legit regression model shows that the determinants of the household involvement in adaptive measures exhibit eight variables. These are sex, education level and distance to animal water source service (p<0.10); family size and total income from farm and non-farm activities(0.01<p<0.05), and distance to credit and primary education services (p<0.01). Women are highly marginalized social segments and highly vulnerable to climate change. Thus, policy makers, other governmental and nongovernmental organizations should give attention for women while addressing adaptation strategies to mitigate detrimental impacts of climate change. Critique awareness on climate change adaptive measures as human capacity building should be considered. Programs/strategies which focus on food security and employment generating scheme should be encouraged to target households with no and low adaptation level for their interests of non-farm activities along with the regular farm activity. Adaptive measures are important to adapt more to climate change. Further research is required in order to identify basic adaptive measures and their trend analysis in livestock production too...

Ключевые слова: adaptation measures, Climate change, crop production, Household, Ordered logit, Boset