Current Status of Farmers’ Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of Ethiopia

Abstract

Agriculture is the backbone of Ethiopia’s economy, but the sector is affected by negative impact of climate change and variability such as: recurrent drought and floods. This is because of low adaptive capacity of farmers, high vulnerability of the sector and lack of addressing the available adaptation opportunities, constraints and limits. Successful adaptation needs exploiting available adapation options and reducing barier adapation options expanding the adaptive capacity of farmers and natural systems . The paper focuses on two issues of overlap that include: (1) agriculture and climate change adaptations (2) types and determinants of adaptations options focusing on rural Ethiopia.