TY  - JOUR
AV  - restricted
A1  - Jiri, O
A1  - Mafongoya, P L
A1  - Chivenge, P
TI  - Building climate change resilience through adaptation in smallholder farming systems in semi-arid Zimbabwe
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-07-2016-0092
JF  - International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management
SN  - 1756-8692
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
N1  - This study was funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa through the Research Chair: Agronomy and Rural Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal
N2  - Purpose
This study aimed to determine factors that increase resilience and cause smallholder farmers to adapt better to climate change and vulnerability.

Design/methodology/approach
In this study, the authors used the vulnerability to resilience model and binary logit model to analyse the factors influencing household decisions to adapt.

Findings
Households with increased access to climate information through extension services were likely to have better adaptation abilities. It was also shown that younger farmers were likely to adapt to climate change given their flexibility to adopt new techniques and their access and use of modern information and technology. Larger households were found to have higher probability of adapting as most adaptation strategies are labour intensive. Household?s possession of livestock and access to credit significantly enhanced adaptation. However, households with higher farm income have lesser incentives to adapt to because their current farming practices might already be optimum.

Research limitations/implications
Given that most of the smallholder farmers are vulnerable, such as women-headed households and the elderly, who are labour constrained, there is need for research and development of labour saving technologies to increase resilience to climate change and vulnerability.

Originality/value
These findings underscore the importance of enabling farmer access to information and better technologies which enable them to increase adaptive capacity and resilience.
KW  - Adaptive capacity
KW  -  Resilience
KW  -  Smallholder farmers
KW  -  Livestock
KW  -  Climate change adaptation
KW  -  Farming practices
Y1  - 2017///
SP  - 1
ID  - icrisat10329
EP  - 33
VL  - 9
IS  - 2
ER  -