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Household and Community Assets and Farmers' Adaptation to Extreme Weather Event: the Case of Drought in China

Yangjie Wang,Jikun Huang,Jinxia Wang

Published 2014 in Journal of Integrative Agriculture

ABSTRACT

Under climate change, rising frequency and serious extreme weather events have challenged agricultural production. Designing appropriate adaptation measures to the extreme weather events require rigorous and empirical analysis. The overall goals of this study are to understand physical adaptation measures taken by farmers and the impacts of household and community assets on farmers' adaptation when they face drought. The analyses are based on a unique data set collected from a household survey in three provinces in China. The survey results show that though not common on annual basis, some farmers did use physical adaptation measures to fight drought. Regression analysis reveals that both household and community assets significantly affect farmers' adaptation behaviors. Improving households' social capital and wealth, communities' network and access to government's anti-drought service can facilitate farmers' adaptation to drought. Results indicate that community's irrigation infrastructure and physical adaptation taken by farmers can substitute each other. Further analysis shows that the households taking adaptation measures have higher crop yields than those without taking these measures. The paper concludes with several policy implications.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2014

  • Venue

    Journal of Integrative Agriculture

  • Publication date

    2014-04-01

  • Fields of study

    Agricultural and Food Sciences, Business, Economics, Environmental Science

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.1016/S2095-3119(13)60697-8
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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