eprintid: 10329
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datestamp: 2017-11-29 08:06:01
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Jiri, O
creators_name: Mafongoya, P L
creators_name: Chivenge, P
icrisatcreators_name: Chivenge, P
affiliation: School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Pietermaritzburg)
affiliation: Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zimbabwe (Harare)
affiliation: ICRISAT (Bulawayo)
country: South Africa
country: Zimbabwe
title: Building climate change resilience through adaptation in smallholder farming systems in semi-arid Zimbabwe
ispublished: pub
subjects: GL1
subjects: S21
subjects: n6787
subjects: s2.8
subjects: s53
divisions: CRPS5
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Adaptive capacity, Resilience, Smallholder farmers, Livestock, Climate change adaptation, Farming practices
note: This study was funded by the National Research Foundation of South Africa through the Research Chair: Agronomy and Rural Development, University of KwaZulu-Natal
abstract: 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.
date: 2017
date_type: published
publication: International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management
volume: 9
number: 2
publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
pagerange: 1-33
id_number: 10.1108/IJCCSM-07-2016-0092
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1756-8692
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-07-2016-0092
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Building+climate+change+resilience+through+adaptation+in+smallholder+farming+systems+in+semi-arid+Zimbabwe&btnG=
related_url_type: pub
funders: National Research Foundation of South Africa
citation:   Jiri, O and Mafongoya, P L and Chivenge, P  (2017) Building climate change resilience through adaptation in smallholder farming systems in semi-arid Zimbabwe.  International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 9 (2).  pp. 1-33.  ISSN 1756-8692     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10329/1/Building%20climate%20change%20resilience%20through%20adaptation.pdf