Factors affecting smallholder farmers'adaptive capacity to climate change:A comparative study of Nepal,India,and Bangladesh  

影响小农户适应气候变化能力的因素——尼泊尔、印度和孟加拉国的比较研究

作　　者：CHAPAGAIN Prem Sagar BANSKOTA Tibendra Raj SHRESTHA Shobha ZHANG Yili YAN Jianzhong RAI Suresh Chand ISLAM Md Nurul LIU Linshan MANDAL Umesh Kumar PAUDEL Basanta KHANAL Narendra Raj THASINEKU Om Chandra 普瑞姆·萨加·查帕甘;提本德拉·拉吉·班斯科塔;绍巴·什雷斯塔;张镱锂;闫建忠;苏雷什·昌德·雷;努鲁尔·穆罕穆德·伊斯兰姆;刘林山;乌梅什·库马尔·曼达尔;巴桑塔·鲍德尔;纳伦德拉·拉吉·卡纳尔;欧姆·昌德拉·塔西内库

机构地区：[1]Central Department of Geography,Tribhuvan University,Kathmandu 44613,Nepal [2]Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,CAS,Beijing 100101,China [3]College of Resource and Environment,Southwest University,Chongqing 400716,China [4]Department of Geography,Delhi School of Economics,University of Delhi,Delhi 110007,India [5]Department of Geography&Environment,Jahangirnagar University,Dhaka 1342,Bangladesh [6]Research Center for Educational Innovation and Development(CERID),Tribhuvan University,Kathmandu 44613,Nepal

出　　处：《Journal of Geographical Sciences》2025年第2期359-381,共23页地理学报(英文版)

基　　金：The Alliance of International Science Organizations(ANSO),No.ANSO-CR-PP-2021-06;The Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research,No.2019QZKK0603。

摘　　要：Agriculture,significantly impacted by climate change and climate variability,serves as the primary livelihood for smallholder farmers in South Asia.This study aims to examine and evaluate the factors influencing smallholder farmers'adaptive capacity(AC)in addressing these risks through surveys from 633 households across Nepal,India,and Bangladesh.The findings reveal that AC is influenced by various indicators categorized under eight principal factors.The first three factors,which explain about one-third of the variance in each country,include distinct significant indicators for each nation:in Nepal,these indicators are landholding size,skill-development training,knowledge of improved seed varieties,number of income sources,access to markets,and access to financial institutions;in India,they encompass ac-cess to agricultural-input information,knowledge of seed varieties,access to markets,access to crop insurance,changing the sowing/harvesting times of crops,and access to financial ser-vices;in Bangladesh,the key factors are access to financial institutions,community coopera-tion,changing the sowing/harvesting times of crops,knowledge of improved seed varieties,and access to agricultural-input information.Notably,indicators such as trust in weather in-formation,changing sowing/harvesting times of crops,and crop insurance were identified as important determinants of AC,which have been overlooked in previous studies.

关 键 词：climate change rain-fed agriculture SMALLHOLDER adaptive capacity PCA Nepal INDIA BANGLADESH 

分 类 号：F335[经济管理—产业经济] P467[天文地球—大气科学及气象学]