Transcript ICTs and diffusion of water constraints adaptation strategies towards

ICTs and diffusion of water
constraints’ adaptation strategies
towards sorghum farmers in the
context of Climate Change
(Far-north Cameroon)
Salé ABOU, Researcher/Lecturer,
IRAD/CRRAD Maroua (Cameroon)
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PLAN
I. INTRODUCTION
II. METHODOLOGY
III. RESULTS
IV. CONCLUSIONS
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I. INTRODUCTION
Sorghum,
basic food of the population (Minader
2012);
Climate
change, water constraints, accentuating
inadequacy population/production;
 Adaptation
stratégies do exist but lack of
adoption (GIEC 2007; ECOWAS 2008);
Information
access lackings due to many factors
among which the diverse limitations of
interpersonnal cc (Kaboré 2011);
Contribution
of ICTs to the diffusion of water
constraints’ adaptation strategies.
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II. METHODOLOGY
Sites’
choice:
Diamaré Division (fig.1), 20
villages (10 Dry season sorghum, 10 rainy season
sorghum);
Sampling:
randomly 30 sorghum producers per
village (600 farmers);
Data
collection: focus-groups, questionnaire;
Data
analysis: Descriptive stat. (Frequencies
and Kendall test of agreement, Crosstabs);
ICTs
of interest: radio, telephone and agricultural
newspapers
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Figure1
Research area
and sites
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III. RESULTS
III.1.Main water constraints and adaptation strategies
Water constraints
Delayed rains
80.50 %
Rainfall water amount
reduction
Frequent and
dry spells
Perception
rate
Adaptation strategies
Crops’ diversification
80 %
Diversification
activities
62 %
Diversification
varieties
longer
Crops’ drying up
61.67 %
of
85.33 %
economic
80.50 %
of
crops’
71.33 %
Sowing/planting of drought
resistant crops varieties
Early rainwater cut off
61.33 %
Sowing/planting
matured varieties
Bad
water
distribution
58.33 %
Basins’ building
Adoption rate
of
early
62.33 %
61.66 %
spatial
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50.33 %
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III. RESULTS
III.2. Use of communication channels
Access’ rate
Communication channels
Interpersonnal
communication
(formal and informal)
Radio
channels
100 %
87.50 %
Telephone
71.33 %
Newspapers
33.17 %
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III.RESULTS
III.3. Communication channels’ contribution to
improvement of farmers’ agricultural knowledge
Communication channels Mean Rank
Kendall test of
agreement
Order
Interpersonnal communication
channels
1.38
1
Radio
1.99
2
Newspapers
4.02
3
Telephone
4.74
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600
Kendall W
0.765
Probability
0.000
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III.RESULTS
III.4. Adaptation strategies’ diffusion through ICTs
ICTS
Radio
Telephone
Newspapers
Sowing/Planting
of early matured
varieties
31.17 %
29.67 %
03 %
Basins’ building
39.17 %
14.67 %
17 %
Fertilizer/Organic
manure use
64 %
0
25.33 %
Early
planting/sowing
20.88 %
64.83 %
0
Adaptation
strategies
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IV.CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS
In order to enhance innovations’ diffusion by ICTs, we
suggest that governments :
Invest
more in research so as to produce more and new
innovations for farmers;
Create
conditions that favor farmers’ acces to ICTs
(roads, electricity, socioeconomic conditions);
Create
more rural radios and support diffusion of
innovations through its channel;
Identification
of innovations to be diffused as well as the
diffusion process should be participative (facilitate farmers
access and adoption).
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THANK YOU
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