Determinants of choice of climate change adaptation practices by smallholder pineapple farmers in the semi-deciduous forest zone of Ghana
Determinants of choice of climate change adaptation practices by smallholder pineapple farmers in the semi-deciduous forest zone of Ghana
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DOI：
10.1016/j.indic.2021.100140
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发表时间：
2021-08-13
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4.3
通讯作者：
Codjoe, Samuel Nii Ardey
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作者：
Antwi-Agyei, Philip;Wiafe, Esther Ako;Codjoe, Samuel Nii Ardey
本文探讨了气候变化的意识在多大程度上影响了小规模菠萝种植户对气候变化适应实践的选择。本研究采用了从加纳Nsawam Municipality的150名农民收集的横截面数据。我们应用潜在类分析（LCA），以确定亚人口的菠萝农民的基础上，他们的气候变化和社会经济特征的认识水平。然后，我们使用多项逻辑回归来研究气候变化意识的差异对适应选择的影响程度。结果表明，小农菠萝农民很清楚气候变化和感知的降雨量和温度模式的变化。此外，调查结果显示，小农菠萝农民正在实施一系列农场和农场外的气候变化适应措施，包括灌溉，调整种植时间，土地分割，使用农业生态知识和季节性迁移。LCA根据气候变化意识水平确定了三个小规模菠萝种植者群体-气候变化意识强的群体（n = 111; 74%），气候变化意识中等的群体（n = 18; 12%）和气候变化意识差的群体（n = 21; 14%）。结果表明，在所观察的农民分组中，适应做法的采用率略有差异。我们发现，与性别、婚姻状况和农民年龄等个人因素相比，气候信息质量、推广服务质量、信贷获取、教育和推广服务获取等制度因素对气候变化意识和适应做法的选择有更大的影响。
This paper explored the extent to which the awareness of climate change affects the choice of climate change adaptation practice by smallholder pineapple farmers. This study used a cross-sectional data collected from 150 farmers in the Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipality, Ghana. We applied the Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to identify sub-population of pineapple farmers based on their awareness levels of climate change and socioeconomic characteristics. We then used a multinomial logistic regression to examine the extent to which differences in climate change awareness influence adaptation choices. Results indicated that, smallholder pineapple farmers are well aware of climate change and perceived changes in rainfall and temperature patterns. Further, the findings revealed that smallholder pineapple farmers are implementing a host of on-farm and off-farm climate change adaptation practices including irrigation, adjusting planting time, land fragmentation, the use of agmecological knowledge, and seasonal migration. The LCA identified three subgroups of smallholder pineapple farmers based on their level of awareness of climate change - strong climate change awareness group (n = 111; 74%), moderate climate change awareness group (n = 18; 12%) and poor climate change awareness group (n = 21; 14%). Results showed marginal differences in the adoption rate of adaptation practices across the observed subgroups of farmers. We identified that institutional factors including the quality of climate information, quality of extension services, access to credit, education and access to extension services have a stronger effect on climate change awareness and the choice of adaptation practice compared to individual factors such as gender, marital status and farmers' age.