Farmers’ adaptation decisions to landslides and flash floods in the mountainous region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan

Dilshad Ahmad (), Mohammad Afzal () and Abdur Rauf ()
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Dilshad Ahmad: COMSATS University Islamabad, Vehari Campus
Mohammad Afzal: Preston University Islamabad
Abdur Rauf: Abbottabad University of Science and Technology

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2021, vol. 23, issue 6, No 27, 8573-8600

Abstract: Abstract Understanding farmer’s agricultural production decisions regarding natural hazards plays crucial role for extension of organizations and policymakers to facilitate farmers to make optimal adaptive strategies. The aspect of determinants affecting the farmer’s preference of measure in adaptation procedure investigated in limited studies of literature. This study focused this research gap in scenario of Pakistan and investigated rural households’ decision-making adaptation strategies process regarding landslides and flash floods hazards. The research work used household survey data of 398 purposively selected farmers of district Shangla from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. This study used manifold-portfolio structure, assumes as farmers have several preferences of adaptation strategies all together explained adaptation options are symbiotic. Multivariate probit models were employed in this paper for the empirical estimation of the study. Variegation of crops, crop-type diversifications, cropping pattern changing, crop protection and implementation management are primary adaptation measures used by respondent households. Inadequate information regarding landslides and flash floods, lack of technical equipments and machinery, insufficient money and limited support from local government were considered foremost limits in this study region. The study conclusion indicated as farmers’ perceptions, farming descriptions, farmers’ socioeconomic characteristics, and institutional conditions strongly affects farmers’ adaptation assessment about landslides and flash floods. In future policies, it is more appropriate as major involvement of these causative factors to make possible appropriate adopting adaptation strategies for inhabitants of local areas.

Keywords: Adaptation; Landslides; Flash floods; Punjab; Pakistan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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