Farmers Perception And Adaptation Strategies To Climate Change Implications To Household Food Security In Lay Gayint District Amhara Region Ethiopia

Climate change is a global phenomenon rapidly emerging as one of the most serious threats thatrnhumanity ever faces. Its impact on developing countries with limited adaptive capacity has becomerna pressing issue as it highly affects the performance of agricultural production and food security.rnThis study was designed to examine the situations of climate variability and its implications to foodrnsecurity. To achieve the stated purpose, the researcher used explanatory research design. It isrnbased on analysis of data collected from 354 randomly selected household farmers and all 6rnagriculture experts were included from 6 agriculture experts and decade’s document analysis fromrnNMA. Frequency and percentage are in this study. The data collection instrument wasrnquestionnaire from 354 farmers; key informant interview used to analyze farmers’ perception andrnadaptation to climate change whereas standard anomaly is applied to analyze Climate trends andrnVariability. The results indicated that both maximum and minimum temperature has beenrnincreasing and rainfall had a fluctuating trend during the last three decades and it impacts onrnagricultural production and food security. The majority of the participants were perceived therernwas climate change. However the adaptation mechanisms was low and vary from individual tornindividuals; because of this almost 88 % of the farmers were not secure their household foodrnsecurity. Eventually, it is recommended that the government, agriculture experts and farmersrnshould Promoting farm-level climate change adaptation mechanism to increase the household foodrnsecurity.

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