scholarly journals Climate Change Adaptation Influences and Barriers Impacting the Asian Agricultural Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7346
Author(s):  
Thu-Huong Nguyen ◽  
Oz Sahin ◽  
Michael Howes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Barriers To Change ◽  
Financial Options

There has been an increasing interest among scholars regarding the impacts of climate change on agriculture and possible adaptation strategies for farmers. Little attention has been paid, however, to reviewing adaptation initiatives amongst farmers in Asia. This article fills this knowledge gap by examining the current literature on Asian farmers’ perception of climate change, their adaptation strategies, key factors influencing their choices, and the barriers to change. A systematic quantitative literature review is undertaken of 48 papers taken from a range of sources. The review indicates that farmers’ perceptions of climate change have been consistent with the scientific data. It further identifies farmers’ adaptation strategies with regards to soil conservation, water management and land use changes. The review shows numerous factors influencing, and barriers impacting, farmers’ ability to adapt. Influencing factors were analysed and categorised into five groups: cognitive, demographic, social-economic, resources, and institutional. Barriers hampering their adaptive capacity were identified as: a lack of access to information, a lack of access to extension services, limited awareness and knowledge, and limited financial options. The review finishes with some recommendations for future research.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing the Choice of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies by Households: A Case of Mpolonjeni Area Development Programme (ADP) in Swaziland

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phindile Shongwe ◽  
Micah B. Masuku ◽  
Absalom M. Manyatsi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Factors Influencing

The increased involvement of food relief agencies nearly on an annual basis is a clear indication that agricultural production continues to decline as a result of climate change. In order to mitigate the negative effect of climate change, households engage on adaptation strategies. The extent to which these impacts are felt depends mostly on the level of adaptation in response to climate change. The main objectives of the study were to identify the adaptation strategies employed by households and to analyse factors influencing the choice of adaptation strategies by households using personal interviews. The study used data from a random sample of 350 households. Descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression model were used to analyse the data. The results showed that adaptation strategies employed were; drought tolerant varieties, switching crops, irrigation, crop rotation, mulching, minimum tillage, early planting, late planting and intercropping. The results showed that the choice of adaptation strategies by households was significantly (p <0.05) influenced by; age of household head, occupation of household head, being a member of a social group, land category, access to credit, access to extension services and training, high incidences of crop pest and disease, high input prices, high food prices, perceptions of households towards climate change. Moreover, the analysis showed that perceptions of households towards climate change significantly influence all adaptation strategies. However, sex and education level of the household head were insignificant in influencing household choice when adapting to climate change. It is recommended that there is need to educate households about the negative impact of climate change on cropping systems. The study also recommends that agriculture extension services should be strengthened, agriculture financial institutions should accommodate subsistence farmers on communal land and rural micro-finance institutions should be developed, in order to facilitate farmers to choose effective adaptation strategies. 

scholarly journals THE CHOICE OF CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES PRACTICED BY CASSAVA-BASED FARMERS IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA

AGROFOR ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adanna HENRI-UKOHA
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Credit Access ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Pests And Diseases ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Southern Nigeria ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Area Data

The study on choice of climate change adaptation strategies practiced by cassavabased farmers was conducted in Southern Nigeria. The following specific objectives were achieved: to ascertain the perceived effects of climate change in the study area and to determine factors influencing the choice of using climate change adaptation strategies by cassava-based farmers in the study area. Data were obtained through the administration of questionnaire to 300 randomly sampled cassava-based farmers in the study area. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as mean, frequencies, percentages and inferential statistics such as Multinomial Logit Regression technique. The result revealed that farmers perceived increase in flood incidence (91.33%), drought (90.67%), high incidence of pests and diseases (55%) and low yield (50%) as the effects of climate change in the study area. Also, from the results, 58% of the farmers chose not to employ the use of climate change adaptation strategies while only 42% decided to choose using climate change adaptation options in the study area. The result also showed that age of the farmer, farming experience, gender, marital status, level of education, household size, access to credit, access to agricultural extension services and membership of association were the factors influencing the choice climate change adaptation strategies used by the farmers. The study concluded that socioeconomic attributes of the farmers affected their choice of climate change adaptation strategies. Policy should be targeted at designing climate change adaptation technology to farmers as well as providing the enabling environment that would encourage them to employ it.

Advice in Mentoring Relationships in Organizations

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Do-Yeong Kim ◽  
Sujin Son
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Cultural Orientation ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Learning Goal ◽  
Learning Goal Orientation ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Advice Taking

This chapter advances understanding of the advice-taking behavior of protégés during the mentoring process in organizations. First, it reviews the extant literature regarding mentoring relationships in general. Next, it examines the possible key factors that influence protégés’ advice-taking behavior in mentoring relationships. Finally, it discusses directions for future research. Possible key factors influencing protégés’ advice-taking behavior in mentoring relationships are suggested, including mentor characteristics (mentor status and learning-goal orientation), protégé characteristics (cultural orientation and learning goal-orientation), and relational characteristics (relationship quality and trust in mentors).

scholarly journals Analysing the effects of strategic assets on company success : an evidence in manufacturing company

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.10) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Sarminah Samad ◽  
Hazaz Abdullah Alsolami
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Partial Least Squares ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Strategic Assets ◽  
The Relationship

Manufacturing industry plays a significant role in the development of a nation. Thus, analyzing the factors influencing its success is profoundly needed. Scholars have identified strategic assets as a key factors that influence the success of manufacturing companies. This study examined the relationship between strategic assets on company success. 400 manufacturing companies in Malaysia have participated in the survey.  A total of 299 usable questionnaires were analyzed using Smart Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results revealed that manufacturing companies should consider increasing their strategic assets to achieve superior success. This suggests that strategic assets are crucial towards improving company success. The results found that intangible assets have emerged as the most significant predictor that affect company success. The implications of this study and recommendations for future research are also discussed.  

Key Factors of Agricultural Industry Evaluation Based on AHP and TFN

2014 ◽  
Vol 484-485 ◽  
pp. 1012-1016
Author(s):  
Lei Lei ◽  
Xi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Delphi Method ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Triangular Fuzzy Number ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Government Decision ◽  
Fuzzy Delphi ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Based on the AHP and TFN, this paper establishes the indicator system, and develop the strategic framework using the fuzzy Delphi method. Then the triangular fuzzy number model is established using Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process, and the key factors influencing agricultural industry are extracted. The manufacturers and government decision-making body can use this as the basis, to promote the development of the agricultural industry.

Factors influencing the use of adaptation strategies to climate change in paddy lands of Kamfiruz, Iran

2020 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 104628
Author(s):  
Mehdi Esfandiari ◽  
Hamid R. Mirzaei Khalilabad ◽  
Hossien Mehrabi Boshrabadi ◽  
Mohmmad R. Zare Mehrjerdi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Factors Influencing

scholarly journals Advocacy for Sustainability Communication. Unseen Potential of Queer Communicators in Environmental, Climate Change and Sustainability Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13871
Author(s):  
Franzisca Weder ◽  
Swastika Samanta
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Ipcc Report ◽  
The Media ◽  
Explorative Interviews

The story of climate change, of destruction and loss, is well represented in mass media around natural hazards and new scientific data (i.e., the newest IPCC report); in contrast, new concepts of restoration, eco-cultural identities, social change and sustainable development are not picked up in public discourses—similarly to how the voices of NGO communicators, activists or queer communicators are not heard in the media. Additionally, the growth of digital publishing technologies and related audience behavior not only influence public communication processes, but also challenge professional communicators, including journalists and PR professionals to scientists, artists and activists. With a series of explorative interviews in different cultural settings (Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand), we can show that queer communicators have the potential to cultivate a new understanding of sustainability communication as social conversation about sustainability, and thus, overcome the very visible old story about climate change and rather propagate the new story of sustainability and transformation. The interviews show that queer communicator advocacy focuses on mobilizing and initiating dialectic conversations, which includes community building and queering existing norms, thus choosing new pathways for communication for sustainability. The findings and the developed concept of advocacy for sustainability communication are discussed at the end of the paper, including a reflection on the limitations of the explorative character of the analysis and future research potential.

scholarly journals Factors influencing climate change adaptation strategies in North-Western Ghana: evidence of farmers in the Black Volta Basin in Upper West region

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis X. K. Mwinkom ◽  
Lawrence Damnyag ◽  
Simon Abugre ◽  
Suhiyini I. Alhassan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Volta Basin ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies

AbstractThe erratic rainfall patterns and decline in crop production are due to the threat of climate change. The responses of farm households to climate change play a very essential role in addressing the risk of climate change. This study investigated factors influencing adaptation strategies to climate change in the Black Volta Basin of Ghana. Survey questions were administered to 450 households sampled from eight districts using a multistage sampling technique. Out of the six adaptation strategies, four major identified adaptation strategies were subsequently used as the dependent variable in the multivariate (MV) probit and binary logit models. The results revealed that factors such as gender, age, household size, farmer-based-organizations membership, farm income, years of education, districts of location of respondents, farm size and climate change awareness—statistically and significantly—influenced households’ adaptation to the changing climate. However, the positive correlation matrix from the MV probit model showed complementarities among all the adaptation strategies adopted by household heads. Priority should be given to improving household heads’ adaptive capacity. Also, governmental and non-governmental organizations should invest in climate-resilient programmes. Finally, programmes aimed at sensitizing household heads on climate change adaptation strategies such as changing planting time, changing farming methods, and planting early maturing and drought-resistant varieties through pieces of trainings and workshops may be duly supported by the Government; particularly, for household heads in the Black Volta Basin.

Exploring residential characteristics as determinants of household adaptation to climate change in Lagos, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola ◽  
Abdullateef Iyanda Bako
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Residential Characteristics ◽  
Demographic Attributes ◽  
And Coping

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing residents’ adaptation strategies to climate change effects in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The metropolis was stratified into low, medium and high residential densities. Across the residential densities, questionnaires were administered on 384 residents. The questionnaire addressed issues on resident’s socio-economic and demographic attributes, awareness of climate change and factors influencing residents’ adaptation to climate change. Data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings Result indicated that the adaptation strategies adopted by residents in the different residential areas were similar but varied in magnitude as denoted by the resident response index RRI (RRIh = 3.32, RRIm = 3.39 and RRIl = 3.41). The multiple regression analysis computed indicated the residential characteristics such as education, average monthly income, age, house type and house ownership (p < 0.05) were significant factors influencing resident’s level of climate change adaptation strategies adopted. Research limitations/implications The study could be strengthened by looking at specific climate change effects such as floods or drought in major cities of Nigeria. Hence, the view presented in this paper may not be considered generalizable to the impacts of climate change in the study area. Originality/value In recent years, research studies on human adaptation and coping strategies to climate change have generated considerable development interest. This study contributed to this growing area of research by examining the factors influencing residents’ adaptation strategies to climate change in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria.

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