11 pages., Pakistan is highly vulnerable to extreme climatic events, such as floods and droughts. This study determines the farmers’ risk perception, risk attitude, adaptation measures and various aspects of vulnerability to climate change (e.g. floods, droughts, heavy rainfalls, pests and disease) at farm level in rural Pakistan. The risk perception and attitude of farm households are crucial factors that influence farm productivity, investment and management decisions at this level. A well-designed questionnaire was used to interview 720 farm households from six districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. A binary logit model was used to determine the main factors that affect the choice of adaptation strategies of the farm household. The findings revealed that crop diversification, changing crop varieties, altering the crop calendar, varying the fertilizer used, mulching and farm insurance were the main adaptation strategies followed by farm households. The results of the binary logit model revealed that age, education, farm size, household size, credit accessibility, annual income and the perception on the increase in temperature and decrease in rainfall had significant influence on the selection of the adaption strategies. The findings of this study can provide guidance, policy recommendations and reference for future researchers.
USA: International Food Information Council Foundation, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11194
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3 pages., IFIC specialists offer five predictions for 2020, guided by findings from surveys among American consumers in an annual Food and Health Survey, 2012-2019.
2 pages., Via online., Editorial critical of the Los Angeles Times newspaper for championing the rise of plant-based burger alternatives without context, accuracy and logic.
12 pages., Authors presented an algorithm to analyze the behaviour of users of Twitter involving the environment and health care. To illustrate, they presented a concrete example of how the associated graph structure of the tweets related to World Environment Day 2019 was used to develop a heuristic analysis of the validity of the information.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11394
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9 pages., Via online., "For the first time, environmental protection rivals the economy among the public's top policy priorities" (for the president and Congress). Findings of a national survey among U.S. adults conducted January 8-13, 2020.
24 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, Three experiments examined how available resources and the resource burden of responding to an environmental peril affect the perceived burden of taking action, and how perceiving burden, in turn, affects avoidance of information about the threat. Findings demonstrated that facing a high mitigation burden (e.g., costs of hurricane damage recovery and home air quality systems) and lack of resources can lead to remaining uninformed. Findings also identified a potential pathway for intervention.
8 pages., Online issue., "Critics of climate science claim that climate models lack predictive skill. In fact, some of the earliest predictions made thirty years ago have performed remarkably well." ... "the bad news is that in terms of action, we are still only scratching the surface of responses needed...to prevent
'dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system.' The real challenges lie ahead."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 163 Document Number: D11646
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8 pages., Results of Gallup World Poll 2019. Online from publisher., "On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Gallup offers a snapshot of how satisfied people in 145 countries and areas around the world were in 2019 with their efforts to preserve the environment and with the quality of their air and water."
