@article{Shrestha:301826,
      recid = {301826},
      author = {Shrestha, Rajendra Prasad and Raut, Nani and Swe, Lwin  Maung Maung and Tieng, Thida },
      title = {Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture: Cases  from Southeast Asia},
      journal = {Sustainable Agriculture Research},
      address = {2018},
      number = {526-2020-482},
      year = {2018},
      abstract = {Climate change has become apparent and been threatening  more and more in Southeast Asia. Its impacts on agriculture  and adaptation strategies at household level in farming  systems areas are explored. The study focused on better  understanding of climate change impacts and adaptation  practices in four villages of Myanmar and Cambodia.  Household questionnaire survey, focus group discussions and  key informant interviews were used for data collection at  household and community level supplemented with secondary  data. Dry Zone farmers of Myanmar reported increase in crop  diversity while in the Kampong Speu province in Cambodia,  the number of rice growing farmers increased together with  cultivation of other crops, such as cassava, palm fruit,  sugarcane, mangoes, watermelons and vegetables. Farmers  changed their cultivation practices as adaptation  strategies in various ways: change in cropping calendar,  crop varieties, machinery for cultivation practice, and  change in area for cultivation. The shift in cropping  calendar has occurred from two weeks to one month. Diverse  strategies were reported in adapting to water scarcity in  agriculture, such as system of rice intensification and  water pumping. Farmers also adopted strategies for coping  with declining soil productivity. These include animal  manure application, compost making and application, crop  rotation and crop residues retention. In particular, Dry  Zone farmers prefer to apply animal manure rather than  other practices because of its vast benefits, such as  buffering capacity, effectiveness for plant growth and  cheaper price. Cooperative actions are becoming  increasingly needed when an individual could not afford  adaptation strategies. However, barriers to adaptation  strategies are to be reduced to promote climate adaptive  practices in agriculture.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/301826},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.301826},
}