October 10, 2024 Thesis Open Access

Selamyihun Sumye

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      <creatorName>Selamyihun Sumye</creatorName>
      <affiliation>Woldia University</affiliation>
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    <title>Assesing the livilehood vulnerablity of smallholder farmers to the changing climate and adaptation strategies in wadla woreda ,northwollo zone.</title>
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  <publisher>Zenodo</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2024</publicationYear>
  <dates>
    <date dateType="Issued">2024-10-10</date>
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    <rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess">Open Access</rights>
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    <description descriptionType="Abstract">&lt;p&gt;ABSTRACT&lt;br&gt;
Adverse effects of climate change are determined not only by the changing climate but also by&lt;br&gt;
sensitivity of human and natural systems to these changes (Roncoli, et al., 2001). Vulnerability&lt;br&gt;
and adaptive capacity varies both in space and time. Many factors contribute to vulnerability and&lt;br&gt;
adaptive capacities, including: physical, political, institutional, financial, market forces, available&lt;br&gt;
information and technologies (Smit &amp;amp; Pilifosova,2003).&lt;br&gt;
This study aim to assess livelihood vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate change and&lt;br&gt;
their adaptation strategies in Wadla Woreda, North Wollo, Ethiopia.. the section of society most&lt;br&gt;
vulnerable to climate change impacts on food security status and reason behind it to know&lt;br&gt;
constraints that aggravate vulnerability to climate change in the woreda, and to identified local&lt;br&gt;
and institutional adaptation /coping/strategies. Data were collected from 130 respondents through&lt;br&gt;
House hold surveys, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions. Analysis by&lt;br&gt;
descriptive and inferential analysis. Using descriptive statistics, multiple regression models for&lt;br&gt;
the purpose of socio-economic, extreme weather events (climate related hazards), and&lt;br&gt;
institutional factors significantly influence the food security status of the respondents in the study&lt;br&gt;
area.&lt;br&gt;
The findings indicate respondents food security status in the study area were adversely impacted&lt;br&gt;
by extreme weather events such as rain fall variability, temperature variability, snow, extreme&lt;br&gt;
cold, pests and disease, water scarcity, lack of knowledge to predict climate and weather patterns&lt;br&gt;
and extreme flooding . Factors such as family size, working personnel in the household, number&lt;br&gt;
of dependency in the house hold, land ownership status, grazing land ownership, distance to all&lt;br&gt;
weather road, were crucial in influencing the food security status and adaptation of climate&lt;br&gt;
change impacts of the house hold in the study area. The study demonstrates that adaptation&lt;br&gt;
practices, including crop rotation, organic and in organic fertilizers, focus on animal only,&lt;br&gt;
diversifying crop and soil and water conservation, use of improved seed ,change the culture of&lt;br&gt;
production were practiced.&lt;br&gt;
The coup up mechanisms were remittance, productive safety net program, selling asset,&lt;br&gt;
minimize size of meal, migration, borrow money from private and governmental institutions e.t.c&lt;br&gt;
were practiced in the study area. This study concluded that Wadla woreda were a woreda&lt;br&gt;
characterized by large number of land but land were cultivated by traditional agricultural&lt;br&gt;
practice and highly influenced by climate change related hazards and the impacts become severe.&lt;br&gt;
Subsistence crop and animal husbandry farming is not enough to feed the entire household&lt;br&gt;
sufficiently throughout the year. Therefore, policies should promote initiatives that invest more&lt;br&gt;
in rural off-farm activities to generate employment to enable households increase their income&lt;br&gt;
and thus be able to improve their food security status and minimize climate change impacts. This&lt;br&gt;
study recommends strict environmental literacy and adopt the climate smart agricultural practice&lt;br&gt;
is the only option to combat climate change impacts on the food security status of the society.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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