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HELIYON
Volume 7, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07162
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Socio-ecological system; Poisson endogenous treatment effect; Inverse-probability-weighted regression adjustment; Non-farm employment
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The study found that rural non-farm employment helps to enhance smallholder farmers' adaptive capacities, as participants are more likely to utilize a greater number of adaptation techniques. Therefore, in order to increase farmers' ability to adopt more climate change adaptation strategies and to boost farm productivity, efforts must be made to provide more employment opportunities in rural areas.
Non-farm employment in agrarian communities in developing countries has received a lot of attention. However, its role in implementing climate change adaptation strategies is rarely discussed. This study employs a crosssectional data to examine whether rural households in Southwest Nigeria are increasing the extent of climate change adaptation practices through their participation in non-farm employment. To account for selectivity bias, the study used endogenous treatment effect for count data model (precisely Poisson) augmented with the inverse probability-weighted-regression-adjustment (IPWRA) estimator. Both estimators found that rural non-farm jobs increase smallholder farmers' adaptive capacities and that participants would have used less adaptation techniques if they had not participated in non-farm work. Efforts to boost rural development must provide more employment opportunities for farmers, particularly during the off-cropping time. This will help farmers improve their ability to adopt more climate change adaptation strategies and, consequently increase farm productivity.
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