Findings from Kyoto University Has Provided New Data on Environmental Research (Determinants of Farmers’ Risk Perceptions of Hailstorms In Northern Bangladesh: Is Adaptive Capacity the Major Concern?): Environmental Research

2022 JAN 26 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Environmental Research have been published. According to news originating from Kyoto, Japan, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Extreme weather events (EWEs) such as hailstorms are an increasing threat to agriculture worldwide. To develop successful and efficient hailstorm risk management policies, it is important to understand the composition of farmers’ hailstorm risk perceptions.”

Financial support for this research came from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Kyoto University, “This study aims to identify the determinants of these risk perceptions. This is done by collecting pertinent information on the perceptions of risk, farm traits, adaptive capacity, and various other personal characteristics from farmers’ households in hailstorm-oriented areas of northern Bangladesh. By analyzing the explanatory power of various risk factors using the binary logistic regression model, this study reveals that the hailstorm risk perceptions of farmers are embodied by subjective risk factors, such as their perceived control of hailstorm risk, and their personal circumstances. Their perceived resources for tackling hailstorm risk are the most significant predictor variable of hailstorm risk perceptions. Marginal and smallholder farmers are very vulnerable and perceive more risk than is the case with the medium-holder and large-holder farmers, owing to the lack of a compensation policy after the occurrence of hailstorms.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The relevant authorities should pay urgent attention to managing hailstorm risks by developing adequate adaptive capacity among farmers in northern Bangladesh.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Determinants of Farmers’ Risk Perceptions of Hailstorms In Northern Bangladesh: Is Adaptive Capacity the Major Concern? Polish Journal of Environmental Studies, 2022;31(1):257-270. Polish Journal of Environmental Studies can be contacted at: Hard, Post-Office Box, 10-718 Olsztyn 5, Poland.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Md Lamiur Raihan, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Lab Sustainable Rural Dev, Kyoto 6068502, Japan. Additional authors for this research include Mrittika Basu, Kenichiro Onitsuka and Satoshi Hoshino.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/135699. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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