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Farmers' Awareness, Attitude, and Role Towards Climate Change: Case of Olive Production in Egypt

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Agriculture and rural economy interactions

Abstract

Egypt has a long history with olive cultivation traces back to ancient and till today. Egypt is currently the world's second-largest producer of table olives, while Egypt wants to lead the world in table olive production. Climatologists believe that climate change may adversely impact agricultural and food production including Olive production.  Measuring farmers' attitudes toward climate change informs policy, promotes sustainable practices, and contributes to building resilient agricultural systems.  This study investigates the farmers' awareness and attitude regarding climate change and its possible impacts on olive production in the top 5 olive producing governorates in Egypt using the Likert quintuple scale on a random sample of 256 olive farmers by a specific questionnaire based on three Indicators, The first Indicator measures farmers knowledge and attitudes towards climate change which is measured by 10 Items, The second Indicator measures farmer's role to face anticipated climate change impacts on Olive production which is measured by 9 Items, The third Indicator measures Government role to combat the climate change effects on agricultural sector in general and on Olive production as a specific case which is measured by 7 Items.  Results show that the indicator related to the role of the farmer to face the expected climate change is the first among the indicators of the scale at 82.16% followed by the indicator on the awareness of climate change and its potential impacts on the agricultural sector in general, including olives at 80.44%. the role of the government in combating the anticipated climate change impacts in the last place by 45.92%.  As well as there is a clear difference between the third indicator and the other  indicators at the level of the total sample in the study areas where the difference between the first indicator and the third indicator with 1.81 degrees, which means that the olive farmers in the study areas are highly aware of climate change and their important role to combat it but they are suffering from the weak role of the government to address the expected effects of climate change  on olives or help farmers with a possible solutions for more future climate change adaptation.

DOI

10.21608/jalexu.2024.298168.1204

Keywords

Climate Resilience, Farmer’s attitude and awareness, Environmental responsibility, Climate perception, Climate change adaptation

Authors

First Name

Basma

Last Name

Saad

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

Rural Development Department,Faculy of Agriculture,Alexandria university,Egypt

Email

basma.hassank@alexu.edu.eg

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Alexandria

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First Name

Mai

Last Name

Morsi

MiddleName

Mustafa Hassan

Affiliation

Department of Economics and Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt

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First Name

Sherin

Last Name

Sherif

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Affiliation

Department of Economics and Agribusiness, Faculty of Agriculture, Alexandria University, Egypt

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Volume

29

Article Issue

2

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47540

Issue Date

2024-06-01

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2024-06-19

Publish Date

2024-06-01

Page Start

263

Page End

278

Print ISSN

1110-5585

Online ISSN

2785-9525

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Research papers

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1,789

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Publication Title

Journal of the Advances in Agricultural Researches

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https://jalexu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Farmers' Awareness, Attitude, and Role Towards Climate Change: Case of Olive Production in Egypt

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28 Dec 2024