Food security and sustainability through adaptation to climate change: Lessons learned from Nepal

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41340/24:101321

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104279" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104279</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104279" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104279</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Food security and sustainability through adaptation to climate change: Lessons learned from Nepal

Original language description

Climate change adaptation strategies play a crucial role in smallholder farm households' food security and sustainability, particularly under climate change extremes. This study, therefore, examines the role of climate change extremes and smallholder farmers' adaptation strategies in preventing food insecurity in Nepal. Data was collected in 2021 from 400 smallholder households in three agro-ecological zones, namely Mountains, Hill, and Terai. Around 12 % of households were found to be food insecure based on food consumption scores. However, another food security indicator reduced coping strategy index, showing that about 22 % of the households used different short-term strategies to cope with food insecurity. Results from the ordered logit models show that exposure to drought (climate change extremes) adversely impacts the food security status of the households in each study area. Conversely, adopting various adaptation strategies, such as irrigation, agroforestry, and temporary migration, positively impact household food security. In addition, the findings highlight the importance of household head education, market, credit, and information access in enhancing the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers to cope with food insecurity. As a recommendation, adaptation strategies to food insecurity should be carefully tailored to each agro-ecological zone's specific socio-economic and institutional characteristics.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

ISSN

2212-4209

e-ISSN

2212-4209

Volume of the periodical

101

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB 1 2024

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001164212000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85182756601