Understanding farmers? perception of extreme weather events and adaptive measures

被引:6
作者
Etumnu, Chinonso [1 ]
Wang, Tong [5 ]
Jin, Hailong [5 ]
Sieverding, Heidi L. [2 ]
Ulrich-Schad, Jessica D. [3 ]
Clay, David [4 ]
机构
[1] Kentucky State Univ, Sch Agr Communities & Environm, Frankfort, KY USA
[2] South Dakota Sch Mines & Technol, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Rapid City, SD USA
[3] Utah State Univ, Dept Sociol & Anthropol, Logan, UT USA
[4] South Dakota State Univ, Dept Agron Hort & Plant Sci, Brookings, SD USA
[5] South Dakota State Univ, Ness Sch Econ & Management, Brookings, SD USA
关键词
Adaptive strategies; Conservation practices; Drought; Flooding; Farmer survey; Perception; CLIMATE-CHANGE; TILLAGE; IMPACTS; ADAPTATION; ADOPTION; RISK;
D O I
10.1016/j.crm.2023.100494
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Extreme weather events have cost lives and financial losses across the United States. Moreover, they are expected to increase in frequency, and this will exacerbate their impact on vulnerable sectors such as agriculture. But how farmers could adapt to extreme weather events by adopting different conservation practices has received slight attention in the literature. This study examines how farmers' perceptions of drought and flooding influence their decisions to implement conservation practices in their conventional crop fields. Out of the 350 farmer responses we received, fewer than half indicated a likelihood to adopt no-tillage/reduced tillage (43%), cover crops (40%), crop diversification (37%), and integrated crop-livestock grazing (29%). Using this data and a multivariate probit modeling framework, we show that farmers' decisions can be partly explained by their perception of drought but not by their perception of flooding. Specifically, the perceived number of drought years significantly increases the likelihood of adopting no-tillage/reduced tillage and diversified cropping in the future. However, the number of drought years is not significantly associated with the use of cover crops and integrated crop-livestock grazing. These results suggest that the effects of extreme weather events on adoption of conservation practices as adaptive measures vary across different practices. Therefore, adaptation policies that make use of conservation practices must be tailored to farmers' needs and priorities to be effective.
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