eprintid: 7253
rev_number: 14
eprint_status: archive
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datestamp: 2013-11-24 06:28:16
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type: conference_item
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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@cgiar.org
creators_name: Mutsvangwa-Sammie, E P
creators_name: Mazvimavi, K
creators_name: Murendo, C
creators_name: Kundhlande, G
icrisatcreators_name: Mazvimavi, K
affiliation: University of Zimbabwe(Harare)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: University of Göttingen(Göttingen)
affiliation: University of the Free State(Bloemfontei)
country: Zimbabwe
country: India
country: Germany
country: South Africa
title: A Micro-Level Analysis of Vulnerability to Climate Change by Smallholder Farmers in Semi-Arid Areas of Zimbabwe
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
subjects: s2.8
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
keywords: Climate change, household, vulnerability
note: The financial support for this research by the International Development Research Centre is gratefully acknowledged. We thank the research assistants of International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics for collection data and the smallholder farmers for their cooperation.
abstract: Using household survey data from a random sample of 180 households in Gweru and Lupane district, we found the distribution of vulnerability among households was skewed with mean 0.76. On average 89% of the households had a probability of more than 0.5 making them vulnerable to food insecurity and 11% were not vulnerable to food insecurity. The gender of household head, farming experience, household income, and livestock ownership had strong influence on household cereal production and hence their vulnerability to climate changes. In addition, social networks and use of hired labour positively influences crop productivity. Overally, development policies that increase household income, boost livestock ownership and enhance social capital improve crop production, which is critical to boost household adaptive capacity to climate change. There is need to link climate change policies to broader rural development policies especially in developing nations.
date: 2013
date_type: published
pagerange: 1-15
event_title: Invited paper presented at the 4th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists
event_location: Hammamet, Tunisia
event_dates:  22-25 September 2013
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
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related_url_type: pub
funders: International Development Research Centre
citation:   Mutsvangwa-Sammie, E P and Mazvimavi, K and Murendo, C and Kundhlande, G  (2013) A Micro-Level Analysis of Vulnerability to Climate Change by Smallholder Farmers in Semi-Arid Areas of Zimbabwe.  In: Invited paper presented at the 4th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists,  22-25 September 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/7253/1/CP_Microlevel_2013.pdf