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DOI	10.1016/j.crm.2021.100369
	Smallholder sheep farmers' perceived impact of water scarcity in the dry ecozones of South Africa: Determinants and response strategies
	Halimani, Twanani; Marandure, Tawanda; Chikwanha, Obert C.; Molotsi, Annelin H.; Abiodun, Babatunde J.; Dzama, Kennedy; Mapiye, Cletos
通讯作者	Mapiye, C (corresponding author), Univ Stellenbosch, Dept Anim Sci, Private Bag X1, ZA-7606 Stellenbosch, South Africa.
来源期刊	CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT
ISSN	2212-0963
出版年	2021
卷号	34
英文摘要	Water scarcity is amongst the major challenges threatening smallholder sheep production in subsistence-oriented communal farms in dryland areas. Local contextual factors are a prerequisite for effective policy development and optimisation of water resources management for smallholder sheep production. Two-hundred and fifty-two structured questionnaires were administered to investigate the contextual factors that influence smallholder farmers' perceived impact of water scarcity on sheep production in the dry ecozones of the Cape provinces in South Africa and identify their local response strategies. Logit regression findings showed that a unit increase in private commercially-oriented arid farms, males, education level, flock size, adapted breeds and income from livestock increased farmers' probability to perceive impact of water scarcity on sheep production. Regardless of ecozone and farm types, sheep farmers switched between water sources, provided supplementary feed and shade, used adapted breeds and alternative markets to manage the impact of water scarcity. Interventions to build resilience to water scarcity in the surveyed areas should target sheep farmers with low adaptive capacity, particularly less educated women relying on livestock income and farming with non-adapted breeds on subsistence-oriented communal farms in the semiarid ecozone.
英文关键词	Adaptive capacity Dryland Ecozone Resilience Subsistence-oriented farmers
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000704981500001
WOS关键词	FAT-TAILED SHEEP ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; ADAPTATION ; PERCEPTIONS ; SUSTAINABILITY ; REPRODUCTION ; MANAGEMENT ; COMMUNITY ; SUCCESS ; STRESS
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362880
作者单位	[Halimani, Twanani; Marandure, Tawanda; Chikwanha, Obert C.; Molotsi, Annelin H.; Dzama, Kennedy; Mapiye, Cletos] Univ Stellenbosch, Dept Anim Sci, Private Bag X1, ZA-7606 Stellenbosch, South Africa; [Marandure, Tawanda] Coventry Univ, Ctr Agroecol Water & Resilience CAWR, Wolston Lane, Coventry CV8 3LG, W Midlands, England; [Abiodun, Babatunde J.] Univ Cape Town, Dept Environm & Geog Sci, Cape Town, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Halimani, Twanani,Marandure, Tawanda,Chikwanha, Obert C.,et al. Smallholder sheep farmers' perceived impact of water scarcity in the dry ecozones of South Africa: Determinants and response strategies[J],2021,34.
APA	Halimani, Twanani.,Marandure, Tawanda.,Chikwanha, Obert C..,Molotsi, Annelin H..,Abiodun, Babatunde J..,...&Mapiye, Cletos.(2021).Smallholder sheep farmers' perceived impact of water scarcity in the dry ecozones of South Africa: Determinants and response strategies.CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT,34.
MLA	Halimani, Twanani,et al."Smallholder sheep farmers' perceived impact of water scarcity in the dry ecozones of South Africa: Determinants and response strategies".CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT 34(2021).