Omid Jamshidi|Asadi Ali|Khalil Kalantari|Hossein Azadi|Jürgen Scheffran
Vulnerability to climate change of smallholder farmers in the Hamadan province, Iran
University of Tehran|University of Tehran|University of Tehran|Ghent University|Universität Hamburg|Universität Hamburg
agriculture sector plays key role irans economy majority farmers smallholders highly exposed climate change assess vulnerability climate change study investigates general views perceptions respondents towards climate change climatic hazard events factors contributing vulnerability assessment based cross sectional survey conducted random sample 280 smallholder farmers distributed six counties irans hamadan province predicted affected climate change study 7 12 23 indicators applied measuring three dimensions vulnerability exposure sensitivity adaptive capacity analysis combines two sets climatic data obtained iran meteorological organization imo sociodemographics data collected questionnaire according results majority respondents believed climate change real one third acclaimed phenomenon caused human activity vulnerability assessment indicates majority smallholder farmers relatively vulnerable climate change also 13 factors highly contributed vulnerability including education income access infrastructure credit land size according results need responsible governmental organizations hamadan province generate measures order reduce vulnerability smallholder farmers climate change government reform environmental institutional economic conditions promote particular adaptation methods