IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/hur/ijarbs/v7y2017i2p295-307.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Climate Change Adaptation Ability among Sabahan Highland Farmers

Author

Listed:
  • Hamizah Sahharon
  • Khairuddin Idris
  • Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah
  • Bahaman Abu Samah
  • Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril

Abstract

This study aims to gain more understanding of Sabahan highland farmers’ capacity to adapt to the impacts of climate change. This study uses a multi-stage cluster sampling involving 200 highland farmers around Kundasang and Moyog. The data were the analysed using independent t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation. Sabahan highland farmers have a high cognitive awareness towards the changes in their ecosystem, high practices by diversifying their crops, extending their harvest land and also learn other skills related to agriculture and skills impertinent to agriculture to convalesce their household income. However, their structure support was weak as they do not have many livelihood options other than agriculture.

Suggested Citation

  • Hamizah Sahharon & Khairuddin Idris & Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah & Bahaman Abu Samah & Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril, 2017. "Climate Change Adaptation Ability among Sabahan Highland Farmers," International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, vol. 7(2), pages 295-307, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:hur:ijarbs:v:7:y:2017:i:2:p:295-307
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/Climate_Change_Adaptation_Ability_among_Sabahan_Highland_Farmers.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://hrmars.com/hrmars_papers/Climate_Change_Adaptation_Ability_among_Sabahan_Highland_Farmers.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Seo, Sung-No Niggol & Mendelsohn, Robert & Munasinghe, Mohan, 2005. "Climate change and agriculture in Sri Lanka: a Ricardian valuation," Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 10(5), pages 581-596, October.
    2. Siwar, Chamhuri & Alam, Md. Mahmudul & Murad, Wahid & Al-Amin, Abul Quasem, 2019. "A Review of the Linkages between Climate Change, Agricultural Sustainability and Poverty in Malaysia," OSF Preprints 28vwc, Center for Open Science.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Wassie Berhanu & Fekadu Beyene, 2015. "Climate Variability and Household Adaptation Strategies in Southern Ethiopia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(6), pages 1-23, May.
    2. Severen, Christopher & Costello, Christopher & Deschênes, Olivier, 2018. "A Forward-Looking Ricardian Approach: Do land markets capitalize climate change forecasts?," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 235-254.
    3. Wasantha Athukorala & Clevo Wilson, 2012. "Groundwater overuse and farm-level technical inefficiency: evidence from Sri Lanka," School of Economics and Finance Discussion Papers and Working Papers Series 279, School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology.
    4. Abul Quasem Al-Amin & Walter Leal Filho, 2014. "A return to prioritizing needs: Adaptation or mitigation alternatives?," Progress in Development Studies, , vol. 14(4), pages 359-371, October.
    5. Eriyagama, Nishadi & Smakhtin, Vladimir, 2010. "Observed and projected climatic changes, their impacts and adaptation options for Sri Lanka: a review," IWMI Conference Proceedings 211313, International Water Management Institute.
    6. Jagath Edirisinghe & Susantha Siriwardana & Sarath Siriwardana & Punsara Pras & ith, "undated". "Taxing the Pollution: A Case for Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Rubber Production in Sri Lanka," Working papers 5, The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics.
    7. Mendelsohn, Robert & Seo, Niggol, 2007. "Changing farm types and irrigation as an adaptation to climate change in Latin American agriculture," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4161, The World Bank.
    8. Jane Kabubo‐Mariara, 2008. "Climate change adaptation and livestock activity choices in Kenya: An economic analysis," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 32(2), pages 131-141, May.
    9. Alam, Md. Mahmudul & Taufique, Khan Md. Raziuddin & Sayal, Azizullah, 2019. "Do Climate Changes Lead to Income Inequality? Empirical Study on the Farming Community in Malaysia," SocArXiv 4uvdj, Center for Open Science.
    10. Alam, Md. Mahmudul & Siwar, Chamhuri & Talib, Basri & Jaafar, Abdul Hamid & bin Toriman, Mohd Ekhwan, 2019. "Farmers’ Perceptions Study on Required Supports for Climate Change Adaptation in Malaysia," OSF Preprints m3dgn, Center for Open Science.
    11. Alam, Md. Mahmudul & bin Toriman, Mohd Ekhwan & Siwar, Chamhuri & Molla, Rafiqul Islam & Talib, Basri, 2019. "The Impacts of Agricultural Supports for Climate Change Adaptation: Farm Level Assessment Study on Paddy Farmers," OSF Preprints 8qekf, Center for Open Science.
    12. Rafia Afroz, 2017. "An Alternative Model for Supporting the Rice Farmers in Adaptation of Climate Change," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 7(5), pages 317-330.
    13. K.S. Kavi Kumar & Kamal Karunagoda & Enamul Haque & L. Venkatachelam & Girish Nath Bahal, 2012. "Addressing Long-term Challenges to Food Security and Rural Livelihoods in South Asia," Working Papers 2012-075, Madras School of Economics,Chennai,India.
    14. S. Niggol Seo, 2011. "The impacts of climate change on Australia and New Zealand: a Gross Cell Product analysis by land cover," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 55(2), pages 220-238, April.
    15. R. P. Dayani Gunathilaka & James C. R. Smart & Christopher M. Fleming, 2017. "The impact of changing climate on perennial crops: the case of tea production in Sri Lanka," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 140(3), pages 577-592, February.
    16. Wassie Berhanu & Fekadu Beyene, 2014. "The Impact of Climate Change on Pastoral Production Systems: A Study of Climate Variability and Household Adaptation Strategies in Southern Ethiopian Rangelands," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2014-028, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    17. Hossain, Mohammad Shakhawat & Arshad, Muhammad & Qian, Lu & Zhao, Minjuan & Mehmood, Yasir & Kächele, Harald, 2019. "Economic impact of climate change on crop farming in Bangladesh: An application of Ricardian method," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 1-1.
    18. Arellano Gonzalez, Jesus, 2018. "Estimating climate change damages in data scarce and non-competitive settings: a novel version of the Ricardian approach with an application to Mexico," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274010, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    19. Alam, Md. Mahmudul & Siwar, Chamhuri & , Abu N.M. Wahid, 2019. "Resilience, Adaptation and Expected Support for Food Security among the Malaysian East Coast Poor Households," SocArXiv hkbwn, Center for Open Science.
    20. Seo, S. Niggol, 2010. "Is an integrated farm more resilient against climate change? A micro-econometric analysis of portfolio diversification in African agriculture," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 35(1), pages 32-40, February.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hur:ijarbs:v:7:y:2017:i:2:p:295-307. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Hassan Danial Aslam (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://hrmars.com/index.php/pages/detail/IJARBSS .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.