Adaptation to Climate Change and its Impacts on Wheat Yield: Perspective of Farmers in Henan of China

Shuiping Quan, Yingming Li, Jianxin Song, Tao Zhang and Mingyue Wang
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Shuiping Quan: Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASISD), Beijing 100190, China
Yingming Li: Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASISD), Beijing 100190, China
Jianxin Song: Baoshang Bank Co., Beijing 100101, China
Tao Zhang: Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc., Beijing 100091, China
Mingyue Wang: University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing 100049, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-12

Abstract: This paper explored farm households’ autonomous climate change adaptation strategies and corresponding impacts on wheat yield. Based on a survey of 314 wheat farmers in rural China, results show that Chinese wheat farmers have a high rate of climate change awareness and adoption of climate change adaptation measures. Farmers’ cultivated area, cognition level and information accessibility on climate change significantly affect their adaptation decisions. However, these farmers are given limited adaptation strategies, mainly including increasing irrigation, and using more chemical fertilizer and pesticides. Through employing a simultaneous equations model with endogenous switching, we find farmers’ adaptation to climate change is maladaptive with negative effects on wheat yield. This study, therefore, suggests policymakers be mindful of farmers’ maladaptive responses to climate change and provide effective adaptation measures, to help farmers cope with the risks of climate change and ensure farmer’s livelihood security and sustainable agriculture development.

Keywords: climate change; agriculture; adaptation; Henan of China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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