Preference heterogeneity, neighbourhood effects and basic services: logit kernel models for farmers' climate adaptation in Ethiopia

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989100%3A27510%2F21%3A10247517" target="_blank" >RIV/61989100:27510/21:10247517 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10668-020-00897-6" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10668-020-00897-6</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00897-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10668-020-00897-6</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Preference heterogeneity, neighbourhood effects and basic services: logit kernel models for farmers' climate adaptation in Ethiopia

Original language description

Climate change adaptations by farmers are usually analysed with multinomial choice models, which ignore heterogeneity and &apos;mixing&apos; across alternatives and individuals. Moreover, not enough attention is devoted to basic utilities other than extension services. Aimed at a reassessment that accounts for these issues, this paper formulates conditional and mixed logit (logit kernel) models with/without neighbourhood effects. In particular, a spatial logit kernel allows capturing behavioural differences and interdependence between neighbours. The analysis was based on a survey covering 162 villages of the Ethiopian Nile basin, with 50 farm households-multistage stratified randomly sampled-in each of 20 districts (woredas). Supplementary information concerned linear programming solutions on adaptation choice attributes in smallholder farming areas, under two scenarios. Lastly, cross-district aid emergency allocation priorities for food security and agriculture, among others, served as yardsticks for comparison with prevailing adjustment decisions and location characteristics. Closeness to farms with more educated farmers and larger plot sizes turned out to increase the likelihood of a household opting to sell livestock and land along with combined measures of farmland enhancement. Logit kernel outperformed conditional logit in explanatory power, and random parameters highlighted individual and group heterogeneity in preferences. Access to electricity, healthcare, and reliable and safe water supply strengthen farmers&apos; ability to respond to climate change. Specific adaptation measures can contribute in turn to improve the capacity of rural communities to mitigate the severity of health and nutrition crises. By contrast, inworedashit by recurrent epidemics and droughts, many farmers appear to be unable to resort even to basic adaptation measures, such as planting of new trees. This prompts an additional need for institutional support and infrastructure development.

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

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-23177S" target="_blank" >GA15-23177S: Determinants and consequences of international migration</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Environment, Development and Sustainability

ISSN

1387-585X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

23

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

44

Pages from-to

6869-6912

UT code for WoS article

000555371000002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85088983982