Proceedings of the Global Conference on Management and Economic
Year: 2024
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Being ready for climate change: Determinants of developing climage change adaptation strategies among rural households in Colombia
Yazari Agudelo, Santiago Boh´orquez and Juan Carlos Mun˜oz-Mora
ABSTRACT:
This document discusses the principal factors that make household farmers adopt different practices to adapt to climate change. We want to understand better farmers’ perceptions of climate change, their actions to adapt, and the main factors that influence this decision. Using a binary logit model and different variables selection methods, like Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO), we look to know what factors influence the adaptation decision to face climate change in rural households using the case study of a Colombian region. The results highlight that the main factors affecting the decision to adapt to climate change are: i) Demographic and socioeconomic; ii) Resources, services, and technologies and iii) Cognitive and psychological factors. The results of the binary logit model show that the household head job, who takes decisions about the ground, applies for credit, the number of plots and perception of climate change are variables that significantly affect the decision to develop adaptation strategies to climate change. This document can provide information for future researchers and adequately guide policy recommendations regarding climate change and its effects on small rural farmers.
keywords: climate change, adaptation strategies, perception, household farmers