Impact of climate change on rural peasant farming: a case of Guruve (2014).

Climate change is a topical issue which has captured many researchers attention recently. The research was carried out in the Guruve Rural District Council in Mashonaland province. The researcher wanted to know and fully understand how climate change has affected farmers in this area. The researcher...

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Main Author: Maraya, Tinashe F.
Language:English
Published: Midlands State University 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11408/2268
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description Climate change is a topical issue which has captured many researchers attention recently. The research was carried out in the Guruve Rural District Council in Mashonaland province. The researcher wanted to know and fully understand how climate change has affected farmers in this area. The researcher used the qualitative research method were she made use of questionnaire and interviews from the findings, the researcher found out that climate change has brought about many effects on rural peasant farming some of these being water scarcity, immature crop yields and loss of livestock and health complications. Farmers have already started to note differences and have started to implement adaptation measures such as conservation farming, water harvesting and the cultivating of small grain crops.
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spelling ir-11408-22682022-06-27T13:49:04Z Impact of climate change on rural peasant farming: a case of Guruve (2014). Maraya, Tinashe F. Climate change. Rural peasant farming. Climate change is a topical issue which has captured many researchers attention recently. The research was carried out in the Guruve Rural District Council in Mashonaland province. The researcher wanted to know and fully understand how climate change has affected farmers in this area. The researcher used the qualitative research method were she made use of questionnaire and interviews from the findings, the researcher found out that climate change has brought about many effects on rural peasant farming some of these being water scarcity, immature crop yields and loss of livestock and health complications. Farmers have already started to note differences and have started to implement adaptation measures such as conservation farming, water harvesting and the cultivating of small grain crops. 2017-06-28T13:56:20Z 2017-06-28T13:56:20Z 2014-11 http://hdl.handle.net/11408/2268 en open Midlands State University
spellingShingle Climate change.
Rural peasant farming.
Maraya, Tinashe F.
Impact of climate change on rural peasant farming: a case of Guruve (2014).
title Impact of climate change on rural peasant farming: a case of Guruve (2014).
title_full Impact of climate change on rural peasant farming: a case of Guruve (2014).
title_fullStr Impact of climate change on rural peasant farming: a case of Guruve (2014).
title_full_unstemmed Impact of climate change on rural peasant farming: a case of Guruve (2014).
title_short Impact of climate change on rural peasant farming: a case of Guruve (2014).
title_sort impact of climate change on rural peasant farming: a case of guruve (2014).
topic Climate change.
Rural peasant farming.
url http://hdl.handle.net/11408/2268
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