The determinants of farm graduates perception and adaptation to the phenomenon of desertification at the new land in nubria region, Egypt
2010
El-bardan, M.A. | Tantawy, A.M.
. This study aimed mainly at identifying graduates' perception of global warming effects on land degradation and their positive adaptation to such climatic factors whether on their own level in their farms or at their public level to relieve the causes of land desertification.. The main findings indicated that the respondents have low perception of the direct effects of climatic changes on land degradation. However, five variables are held responsible for interpreting 42.31% of the total variance in the farmers' perception of the direct effect of climatic change on land degradation. In addition, the respondents' adaptability to land desertification is related with respondents' ability to change the status quo, their attitudes toward organic farming practices, and level of perception of climatic effects on desertification. These three variables explain 53.06% of total variance in respondent's adaptability to land desertification. Although the majority of the graduates have a low perception of the direct effects of climatic changes on land desertification, they express some understanding of degradations symptoms such as low productivity of land, the increase in pollution, diminishing cultivable land, low level of population health, and their inability to cultivate specific crops. In sum, the effect of social variables is higher than the weight of physical variables in determining both respondent's perception of climatic change effects on land desertification as well as the respondent's adaptability to the forces leading to desertification. The study recommends that an undependent authority directorate must be established to run the affairs of the newly reclaimed areas, monitoring changes in land degradation, and activating effective communication in the fields of soil conservation and water management.
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