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Determinants of Intensity of Adoption of Climate Change Adaptation Practices in the Agriculture Sector in Nepal

Ganesh Raj Joshi, Ramchandra Bhandari

International Journal of Environment and Climate Change · pp. 30–41 · Published 4 Feb 2023

10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i11602

Abstract

Climate change has been noticed in the agricultural sector of Nepal which calls for strategies for adaptation and resilience building. We assessed the influence of demographic, institutional factors, and farm characteristics on the adoption of twenty climate change adaptation practices. We used climate change impact survey data of 800 households for Province 1 and analyzed the data using the Poisson regression and corrected the overdispersion using Negative Binomial regression.   The results revealed that the operational size of landholding, years of experience in farming and formal education of the household head, the association of members in cooperatives and community-based organizations, the occurrence of disasters in the last five years, male-headed households, and receiving remittance influenced the adoption of a package of climate change adaptation practices in agriculture in Nepal. The results imply that policies should be geared towards enhancing the capacity of farmers through education and skill training, strengthening social networks, increasing investment for the generation and dissemination of climate-resilient agricultural technologies and practices, implementing additional off-farm and on-farm activities to increase income, and improving access to physical resources, education, and information to female-headed households.

Adaptation agriculture climate change farmers influencing intensity negative binomial package of practices

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