Abiodun A. Ogundeji

TL;DR: In this article, a zero-inflated double hurdle model was employed to estimate the factors influencing farmers' adoption of adaptation strategies and intensity of adoption at the household level in South Africa, and the authors concluded that farm-level policy efforts that aim to improve rural development should focus on farmers' education, on-farm demonstration and non-farm employment opportunities that seek to engage the farmers.

TL;DR: To improve the adaptive capacity of farmers, stakeholders and government must cooperate and collaborate to improve the conditions under which farmers can gain access to climate change information and suitable agricultural credit as well as policy incentives to ensure overall sustainability of the agricultural sector.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined research on COVID-19 in relation to agricultural production and food security and concluded that interruptions in agricultural food supply as a result of the pandemic impacted supply and demand shocks with negative impacts on all the four pillars of food security.

TL;DR: In this article, a multinomial probit model (MPM) was used to examine the factors that influence farmers' choice of coping/adaptation strategies in the study area, and the results showed that the respondents' human capital vulnerability to drought was very high compared to their economic and social vulnerability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors accessed the state of drought preparedness in Ntabazinduna in Umguza district of Zimbabwe by looking at the coping strategies employed by communal farmers as well as policies that influence the preparedness.