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Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions

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Title Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions
 
Creator Wood, SA
Jina, AS
Jain, M
Kristjanson, Patricia M.
DeFries, Ruth S.
 
Subject analysis
climate
adaptation
agriculture
cropping patterns
food security
 
Description A long history of household-level research has provided important local-level insights into climate
adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector. It remains unclear to what extent these strategies are generalizable or vary across regions. In this study we ask about three potential key factors influencing farming households’ ability to adapt: access to weather information, household and agricultural production-related assets, and participation in local social institutions. We use a 12-country data set from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia to explore the links between these three potential drivers of agricultural change and the likelihood that farmers made farm-associated changes, such as adopting improved crop varieties, increasing fertilizer use, investing in improved land management practices, and changing the timing of agricultural activities. We find evidence that access to weather information, assets, and participation in social institutions are associated with households that have reported making farming changes in recent years, although these results vary across countries and types of practices.

Understanding these drivers and outcomes of farm-associated changes across different socio-economic and environmental conditions is critical for ongoing dialogues for climate-resilient strategies and policies for increasing the adaptive capacity of smallholders under climate change.
 
Date 2013-12-01
2014-02-18T11:24:15Z
2014-02-18T11:24:15Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Wood Sa, Jina AS, Jain M, Kristjanson P, DeFries RS. 2013. Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions. Global Environmental Change.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/34887
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.12.011
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0
Open Access
 
Publisher Global Environmental Change