| DOI: | 10.1007/s10584-018-2168-4
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| Scopus记录号: | 2-s2.0-85043715642
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| 论文题名: | Do climate change adaptation practices improve technical efficiency of smallholder farmers? Evidence from Nepal |
| 作者: | Khanal U.; Wilson C.; Lee B.; Hoang V.-N.
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| 刊名: | Climatic Change
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| ISSN: | 0165-0009
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| EISSN: | 1573-1480
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| 出版年: | 2018
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| 卷: | 147, 期:2018-03-04 | | 起始页码: | 507
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| 结束页码: | 521
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| 语种: | 英语
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| Scopus关键词: | Agriculture
; Efficiency
; Stochastic systems
; Surveys
; Agriculture productions
; Agro-ecological regions
; Climate change adaptation
; Climate change impact
; Productive efficiencies
; Smallholder farmers
; Stochastic frontier analysis
; Technical efficiency
; Climate change
; adaptive management
; agricultural production
; agroecology
; climate change
; climate effect
; household survey
; policy making
; smallholder
; social capital
; technical efficiency
; Nepal
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| 英文摘要: | This paper provides one of the first empirical studies that examine the impact of climate change adaptation practices on technical efficiency (TE) among smallholder farmers in Nepal. An adaptation index is used to explore the impact of farmers’ adaptation on TE using the stochastic frontier analysis framework. Data for six districts of Nepal representing all three agro-ecological regions (terai, hill, and mountain) were collected from a focus group discussion, a stakeholder workshop and a household survey. The survey shows that about 91% of the farming households have adopted at least one practice to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change. Empirical results reveal that adaptation is an important factor explaining efficiency differentials among farming households. Those adopting a greater number of adaptation practices on a larger scale are, on average, found to be 13% more technically efficient than those adopting fewer practices on smaller scale. The empirical results also show that average TE is only 0.72, indicating that there are opportunities for farming households in Nepal to further improve productive efficiency, on average by 28%. Other important factors that explain variations in the productive efficiency across farming households include farmer’s education level, irrigation facilities, market access, and social capital such as farmer’s participations in relevant agricultural organizations and clubs. This study provides empirical evidence to policy makers that small scale adjustments made by farmers in response to climate change impacts are effective in improving farmers’ efficiency in agriculture production. This indicates a need for farmers’ involvement in climate change adaptation planning. © 2018, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature. |
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| 资源类型: | 期刊论文
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/83751
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| Appears in Collections: | 气候减缓与适应
气候变化事实与影响
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作者单位: | Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Khanal U.,Wilson C.,Lee B.,et al. Do climate change adaptation practices improve technical efficiency of smallholder farmers? Evidence from Nepal[J]. Climatic Change,2018-01-01,147(2018-03-04)
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