Climate Variability Adaptation Strategies In Coffee Production And Its Implication To Household Food Security The Case Of Nansabo Woreda West Arsi Zone Oromia Regional State Ethiopia

Climate change is the biggest challenges of the 21st century. It is one of the greatestrnenvironmental, social and economic threats facing our world today. Disasters generated by thernphenomenon of climatic modification have deep influence on agriculture. Ethiopia is vulnerablernto the impacts of climate change mainly due to poor adaptive capacity of communities and highrndiversity of agro ecologies, cultures, production systems and livelihood strategies. The effect ofrnclimate change and variability is adversely affecting coffee production in study area. However,rnno study has been conducted concerning the issue of climate change adaptation strategies onrncoffee production and its implication to rural household food security. The study is motivated byrnthe belief that the effect of climate change on coffee production is high while less understood inrnthe study area. The study was conducted in two kebeles’ of Nansabo Wereda, of Oromia Region.rnThese Kebeles’ were selected purposely based on their potential to coffee production andrnsusceptibility to climate change and variability related food insecurity. The study was based on arntotal number of 181 coffee producers and which was randomly selected for survey. Descriptivernstatistics such as mean, standard deviation and percentage were used to describe sampledrnrespondents in terms of some desirable variables. A binary logit model was also used to analyzernthe factors affecting climate change adaptation strategies. Fifteen variables were included in thernmodel of which ten were found significant at (P

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