Determining Factors and Barriers to the Uptake of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies of Agriculture and Aquaculture Farm Households in Myanmar
This study examines the factors and barriers influencing the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among agriculture and aquaculture farm households in coastal Myanmar. It finds that socioeconomic and institutional factors, access to information and credit, and practical barriers such as high input costs, low product prices, labour shortages, and COVID-19 impacts affect farmers’ adaptation decisions.
Climate change is an undeniable reality that threatens people’s livelihoods. Flooding and saltwater intrusion, along with the rising sea levels, are affecting agricultural and aquaculture livelihoods in Myanmar’s coastal areas. Although climate change adaptation is gaining popularity as a resilience strategy to cope with the negative effects of climate change, both agriculture- and aquaculture-farmers are more often deterred from implementing climate change adaptation strategies due to practical availability and socioeconomic barriers to adaptation. This study aims to evaluate the barriers and factors that influence farm household’ choice of climate change adaptation measures.
Citation: Tun Oo, A., Cho, A., Yan Naing, S. and Marin, G. (2024), “Determining factors and barriers to the uptake of climate change adaptation strategies of agriculture and aquaculture farm households in Myanmar”, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 253-272.
Climate change is an undeniable reality that threatens people’s livelihoods. Flooding and saltwater intrusion, along with the rising sea levels, are affecting agricultural and aquaculture livelihoods in Myanmar’s coastal areas. Although climate change adaptation is gaining popularity as a resilience strategy to cope with the negative effects of climate change, both agriculture- and aquaculture-farmers are more often deterred from implementing climate change adaptation strategies due to practical availability and socioeconomic barriers to adaptation. This study aims to evaluate the barriers and factors that influence farm household’ choice of climate change adaptation measures.
Citation: Tun Oo, A., Cho, A., Yan Naing, S. and Marin, G. (2024), “Determining factors and barriers to the uptake of climate change adaptation strategies of agriculture and aquaculture farm households in Myanmar”, International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, Vol. 16 No. 2, pp. 253-272.
