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Table 4 Determinants of households’ choice of crop management strategies to climate change impact.

From: Barriers to and determinants of the choice of crop management strategies to combat climate change in Dejen District, Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Explanatory variables

Crop diversification

Improved seed

Changing planting dates

Replanting failed crops

p

Exp (B)

p

Exp (B)

p

Exp (B)

p

Exp (B)

Sex_HHH (1)

.170

1.850

.983

.991

.055

.376

.104

.332

Age_HHH

.035

 

.039

 

.102

 

.008

 

Age_HHH (1)

.010*

3.506

.011*

4.115

.092

2.360

.005*

5.416

Age_HHH (2)

.110

3.662

.111

3.886

.038*

5.985

.014*

32.143

Edu_HHH (1)

.731

1.149

.226

1.690

.725

.867

.456

1.513

Farm_exp_HHH

.233

 

.004

 

.046

 

.603

 

Farm_exp_HHH (1)

.108

2.384

.000*

10.166

.120

.428

.261

2.246

Farm_exp_HHH (2)

.884

.917

.238

2.100

.007*

.209

.496

1.796

Farm_exp_HHH (3)

.533

.636

.078

3.943

.018*

.190

880

.864

Income_HHs

.000

 

.013

 

.097

 

.697

 

Income_HHs (1)

.000*

8.481

.012*

3.408

.639

1.378

.558

1.490

Income_HHs (2)

.000*

17.510

.029*

3.632

.051

4.163

.241

2.701

Income_HHs (3)

.000*

18.539

.002*

9.064

.281

2.275

.444

1.998

Family_size_HHs (1)

.820

.902

N/C

N/C

.416

1.490

.002*

.101

Weather_info_HHH (1)

.364

.668

.182

.526

.102

.533

.774

.848

Farmer to farmer extension (1)

.809

1.118

.424

1.455

.658

.806

.093

3.286

Government experts extension (1)

.003*

.271

.635

.815

.124

.520

.064

.290

Agro-ecol._HHs

.005

 

.000

 

.000

 

.022

 

Agro-ecol._HHs (1)

.036*

4.082

.055

5.446

.002*

5.412

.200

2.922

Agro-ecol._HHs (2)

.093

.496

.002*

.218

.000*

145.815

.006*

11.247

Farmlandsize (1)

.001*

4.286

.865

.931

.000*

.150

.02*

4.570

Crop failure

N/C

N/C

.205

1.656

.044*

.345

.211

0.146

Constant

.121

.245

.305

.347

.002

23.795

.894

1.196

  1. N/C not computed, HHH household head, HHs households
  2. *Significant at 0.05