Farm level adaptation decisions to face climatic change and variability: Evidence from Central Chile

Lisandro Roco*, Alejandra Engler, Boris Bravo-Ureta, Roberto Jara-Rojas

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Resumen

Climate change represents one of the biggest threats to agriculture today. The aim of this paper is to analyze the decision and intensity of adaptation to this phenomenon among farmers in Central Chile and to identify the factors that influence the adoption of adaptation measures. The list of adaptation practices was created with the assistance of a panel of experts. A two-part hurdle model was used to identify the adoption and intensity of adoption. The decision to adapt is strongly influenced by land tenure security and access to weather information, which increase the probability of adaptation by 13% and 30%, respectively. The intensity of adaptation is highly influenced by affiliation to a farm organization or association, which tends to boost intensity by 72.2%. Land tenure also increases intensity by 44.5%. Years of experience in agriculture and the income obtained from crops in the previous season also have a positive impact. Empirical results reveal that the most effective way to reduce barriers to adaptation is to improve access to information, while a highly relevant mode to increase the intensity of adaptation is to encourage social networking.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)86-96
Número de páginas11
PublicaciónEnvironmental Science and Policy
Volumen44
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2014
Publicado de forma externa

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Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by a research grant from the Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP) and a doctoral scholarship from Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research. The authors thank the Excellence Program of Interdisciplinary Research: Adaptation of Agriculture to Climate Change (A2C2) of The University of Talca and also the farmers who courteously answered our survey.

Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Geografía, planificación y desarrollo
  • Gestión, supervisión, políticas y leyes

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