October 10, 2024 Thesis Open Access

Selamyihun Sumye

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  <dc:creator>Selamyihun Sumye</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2024-10-10</dc:date>
  <dc:description>ABSTRACT
Adverse effects of climate change are determined not only by the changing climate but also by
sensitivity of human and natural systems to these changes (Roncoli, et al., 2001). Vulnerability
and adaptive capacity varies both in space and time. Many factors contribute to vulnerability and
adaptive capacities, including: physical, political, institutional, financial, market forces, available
information and technologies (Smit &amp; Pilifosova,2003).
This study aim to assess livelihood vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate change and
their adaptation strategies in Wadla Woreda, North Wollo, Ethiopia.. the section of society most
vulnerable to climate change impacts on food security status and reason behind it to know
constraints that aggravate vulnerability to climate change in the woreda, and to identified local
and institutional adaptation /coping/strategies. Data were collected from 130 respondents through
House hold surveys, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions. Analysis by
descriptive and inferential analysis. Using descriptive statistics, multiple regression models for
the purpose of socio-economic, extreme weather events (climate related hazards), and
institutional factors significantly influence the food security status of the respondents in the study
area.
The findings indicate respondents food security status in the study area were adversely impacted
by extreme weather events such as rain fall variability, temperature variability, snow, extreme
cold, pests and disease, water scarcity, lack of knowledge to predict climate and weather patterns
and extreme flooding . Factors such as family size, working personnel in the household, number
of dependency in the house hold, land ownership status, grazing land ownership, distance to all
weather road, were crucial in influencing the food security status and adaptation of climate
change impacts of the house hold in the study area. The study demonstrates that adaptation
practices, including crop rotation, organic and in organic fertilizers, focus on animal only,
diversifying crop and soil and water conservation, use of improved seed ,change the culture of
production were practiced.
The coup up mechanisms were remittance, productive safety net program, selling asset,
minimize size of meal, migration, borrow money from private and governmental institutions e.t.c
were practiced in the study area. This study concluded that Wadla woreda were a woreda
characterized by large number of land but land were cultivated by traditional agricultural
practice and highly influenced by climate change related hazards and the impacts become severe.
Subsistence crop and animal husbandry farming is not enough to feed the entire household
sufficiently throughout the year. Therefore, policies should promote initiatives that invest more
in rural off-farm activities to generate employment to enable households increase their income
and thus be able to improve their food security status and minimize climate change impacts. This
study recommends strict environmental literacy and adopt the climate smart agricultural practice
is the only option to combat climate change impacts on the food security status of the society.</dc:description>
  <dc:identifier>https://zenodo.org/record/11396</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>10.20372/nadre:11396</dc:identifier>
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  <dc:relation>doi:10.20372/nadre:11395</dc:relation>
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  <dc:title>Assesing the livilehood vulnerablity of smallholder farmers to the changing climate and adaptation strategies in wadla woreda ,northwollo zone.</dc:title>
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