Identifying the Factors Affecting Wheat Farmers’ Adaptation Actions to Cope with Climate Changes in Kerman Province

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D. Student Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension, Communication and Rural Development, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zanjan, Iran

3 Assistant professor, Department of Environmental Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Zanjan, Iran

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was analyzing educational channels that could help to improve village participation in environmental protection projects. The main objective of this qualitative study was to identify the factors affecting wheat farmers’ adaptation to cope with climate change. The statistical population of this study consisted of key experts and informants in Kerman Province,21 of them were selected using purposeful sampling and snowball technique. The collected data were analyzed using MAXQDA11 software. The results indicated that the most important adaptation actions to cope with climate changes in Kerman Province were on-farm actions including technical-agronomic, technological, water conservation, and sustainable environmental actions, and off-farm actions including managerial-economic, occupational, and diversification of livelihood. The results also showed that the main factors affecting adaptation actions to cope with climate changes in Kerman Province were three factors, institutional- supportive (i.e., legal-administrative, institutional-organizational, supportive, and economic), extension-awareness (i.e., extension-educational and information-advisory), and individual (i.e., individual-psychological), respectively.



 

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