Abstract

Senait Afro Ashenafi

Agricultural production and productivity and the vulnerable sector for climate change is growing in most of the agrarian developing countries such as Ethiopia. Application of agricultural technologies and production packages is the reason for the increasing production resisting to climate change. Recently, climate change became a global agenda where scientists, politicians and experts are working towards mitigations and adaptations both in small scale and large scale. This paper therefore, analyzes the farmers’ perception in trends of production, productivity in explicit and climate change in general. It also asses the household level adaptation strategies of climate change 542 so as to have a conducive environment for life. To satisfy the predetermined objectives, a two-stage sampling procedure was used to first select peasant associations and then sample respondents. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the adaptation strategies of climate change taking irrigation user and nonuser households comparatively as a source of primary data. The study found that farming households of the study area use different ways of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Consequently, 76.15% of the sample households perceive change land under cultivation as a good strategy of climate change adaptation a few (57.69 %) practiced it practically for changing their livelihood. The farm families perceives irrigation technology, water harvesting systems, planting short season maturity crops, soil conservation methods such as bunds and terraces and tree planting are good strategies for climate change adaptation at the household level.