肯尼亚东南部Giriama社区采用适应气候变化的农业做法:对概念框架的影响

IF 3.3 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Frontiers in Climate Pub Date : 2023-06-15 DOI:10.3389/fclim.2023.1032780
John Safari Ziro, Edith Kichamu-Wachira, H. Ross, G. Palaniappan
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虽然定量研究在评估气候变化适应程度和所涉及变量之间的统计关系方面是强有力的,但定性研究对于理解变量之间关系的社会基础以及确定被忽视或难以衡量的变量的作用也是必不可少的。本研究调查了影响肯尼亚东南部资源贫乏的Giriama农民采用气候适应型农业做法的因素,以期了解为什么这个文化群体中的一些小农采用了气候适应型农业做法,而另一些则没有。通过对30名农民的深度访谈收集数据,其中15人采用了农业专家推荐的气候适应型耕作方法,15人没有采用任何这些方法。采用者以市场为导向,往往拥有个人土地所有权,具有较高的农业经验,农场规模略大,受过初中至高中教育,年龄较小。他们有机会获得农业推广,获得农业投入,他们的非农活动往往与农业供应链有关。非收养者完全为维持生计而在公共或租赁土地上耕作,受过较少的正规教育,并强烈坚持文化信仰和习俗。他们的非农收入与农业无关。更多的收养者是男性,而许多非收养者是女性。特定的文化习俗和禁忌阻碍了一些适应气候变化的做法的采用,例如种植杂交玉米,饲养奶山羊,使用改良山羊(如肯尼亚高山山羊)进行繁殖,以及在作物生产中使用节水结构。此外,定性信息解释了土地所有权、性别、文化和信息获取等因素如何以及为什么相互关联,而这些因素在统计分析中不一定很明显。因此,该研究强调了在定量和定性研究的概念框架中需要考虑的问题,特别是它们如何相互作用,以便为旨在提高小农适应能力的政策和计划提供必要的知识。
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Adoption of climate resilient agricultural practices among the Giriama community in South East Kenya: implications for conceptual frameworks
While quantitative studies are robust at assessing the extent of climate change adaptation, and statistical relationships among variables involved, qualitative studies are also essential to understand the social rationales underlying relationships among variables, and to identify the roles of variables that have been overlooked or are hard to measure. This study investigates factors that influence the adoption of climate resilient agricultural practices by resource-poor Giriama farmers in southeast Kenya, with a view to understanding why some smallholders from this cultural group adopt climate resilient practices, while others do not. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with 30 farmers, 15 of whom had adopted climate resilient farming practices recommended by agricultural experts, and 15 of whom had not adopted any of those practices. The adopters were market-oriented, and tended to have individual land tenure, higher levels of experience in farming, slightly larger farm sizes, middle to high school education levels, and be younger. They had access to agricultural extension, access to farm inputs, and their off-farm activities tended to be related to agricultural supply chains. Non-adopters farmed entirely for subsistence, on communal or leased land, had less formal education, and adhered strongly to cultural beliefs and practices. Their off-farm income was unrelated to agriculture. More of the adopters were males, while many of the non-adopters were female. Particular cultural practices and taboos inhibited the adoption of several of the climate resilient practices, such as planting hybrid maize, keeping dairy goats, using improved goats such as the Kenyan Alpine for breeding purposes and the use of water conservation structures for crop production. Further, the qualitative information explains how and why factors such as land ownership, gender, culture, and access to information are interrelated, in ways that are not necessarily obvious in statistical analysis. The study thus highlights issues that need to be considered in conceptual frameworks underpinning both quantitative and qualitative studies, and particularly how they interact, in order to provide the knowledge essential to policy and programs intended to enhance smallholder farmers' adaptive capacity.
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Frontiers in Climate
Frontiers in Climate Environmental Science-Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
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