IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/eep/report/rr20160330.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Farmers’ Adaptation to Flood Disasters: Evidence from the Mekong River Basin in Thailand

Author

Listed:
  • Phumsith Mahasuweerachai

    (Department of Economics, Faculty of Management Sciences, Khon Kaen University)

  • Piyaluk Buddhawongsa

    (Chiang Mai University)

Abstract

This study accessed the impact of government aid on farmers’ adaptation to climate change in Nam Phong River Basin, Thailand. This area is prone to flooding between September and October. After the floods, the government generally provides financial compensation to affected farmers of about 70%– 80% of the cropping costs. Our study found that this sort of help from the government is likely to discourage farmers to adapt to climate change. This study found that farmers who believe that the government will step in whenever they suffer losses from floods are more likely to stay with their current crop pattern that carries the highest risk of flooding. In addition, government support was also found to undermine the crop insurance market that the government has been trying to develop.
(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

Suggested Citation

  • Phumsith Mahasuweerachai & Piyaluk Buddhawongsa, 2016. "Farmers’ Adaptation to Flood Disasters: Evidence from the Mekong River Basin in Thailand," EEPSEA Research Report rr20160330, Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA), revised Mar 2016.
    • Handle: RePEc:eep:report:rr20160330
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.eepsea.org/pub/rr/2015-RR21PhumsithPiyaluk.pdf
    File Function: First version, 2015
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Adaptation; Flood Disasters; Mekong River Basin; Thailand;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    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:eep:report:rr20160330. 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.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using 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: Arief Anshory yusuf (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/eepsesg.html .

    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.