Do climate change adaptation strategies improve farmers' food security in Tanzania?

ABSTRACT: The damaging effects of changing climate on farm-household food security are steadily increasing in sub-Saharan Africa. Adaptation strategies are important for agrarian households to reduce the adverse effects on their food security. This study employed multivariate probit and endogenous switching regression models to analyze the determinants of farm households' choice of climate-change adaptation strategies, such as the cultivation of early maturing crops, early planting, growing drought-tolerant maize varieties, using precautionary savings, practicing income diversification, and sale of assets, and their effects on household food security in Tanzania. Information on expected rainfall and temperatures, early warning systems, previous droughts, delays in the onset of the rainy season, sex

SUBMITTER: Gebre GG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11737591 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature