Peking University Researchers Describe Advances in Agricultural Insurance (Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern Zambia): Agriculture – Agricultural Insurance

2023 APR 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Education Daily Report -- New study results on agricultural insurance have been published. According to news originating from Beijing, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This study assesses the adaptation of smallholder farmers to climate extremes and its contributing factors in Zambia’s southern province.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Peking University: “The study employed primary data collected from 270 smallholder farmers, and these constituted the sample size. According to the study’s findings, change crop variety was adopted by 43% of the farmers. Other strategies of adaptation that were employed include; agricultural insurance, change sow/harvest date, crop diversification and soil conservation. The findings also showed that the various strategies of adaptation (agricultural insurance, change sow/harvest date, crop diversification and soil conservation), correlated positively with age, education, distance, farming experience, ownership of a radio, an ox, a plough, and extension source.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The study makes the following recommendations; (a) enhancing the education and awareness level of farmers towards climate extreme, (b) improving farmers’ access to agricultural assets (plough, oxen etc), and © when developing and implementing adaptation strategies, farming experience should be taken into account.”

For more information on this research see: Factors Affecting the Choice of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Extremes: The Case of Smallholder farmers in Southern Zambia. Agricultural Science, 2023,6(2):98-117. (Agricultural Science - http://agriscience.scientific-work.org/). The publisher for Agricultural Science is Faculty of Agriculture, Merdeka University Surabaya.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.55173/agriscience.v6i2.94.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Kiru Sichoongwe, Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University, No. 5 Yiheyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Jinxia Wang.

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