The Effects of Household Wealth on Adoption of Agricultural Related Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Zambia

摘要: Despite increased emphasis targeting climate change adaptation strategies towards the poorer sections of communities, few adoption studies assess uptake these practices by groups in a systematic and comprehensive manner. In this study, we used combination participatory rapid approaches quantitative principal component analysis to determine each household’s wealth status, relationship between various agricultural related strategies. Evidence from random sample 1231 households across six districts Zambia showed that more well-endowed than their poorly endowed counter parts, adopted most The relatively had high probability 10.6%, 9.5%, 7.1%, 5.5% embrace crop rotation, minimum tillage, fertiliser trees varieties due change, respectively, parts. Most, if not all require some level resource investment hence only those who could afford such resources are likely adopt them. influence household endowment on several call for subsidising poor encourage among category farmers.