case study on climate change adaptation of rice farmers in Philippines, lipa city.

1. Communication
Platforms and Climate
Change Adaptation of
Rice Farmers
By
Musharaf Javaid

2. INTRODUCTION
• What is climate change?
• Effect of climate change.
• The Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC.
• The Philippines, most vulnerable countries in Southeast Asia.
These extreme weather events can cause spikelet sterility,
flower abortion, higher transpiration, leaf holding, root
rotting, less energy for photosynthesis, submerged crop stand,
and higher incidence of pests and diseases— these all lead to
lower yield. In addition, flood and drought can cause reduction
in area harvested of rice.

3. Communication Relevance To Climate
Change
• Communication and Community can mutually foster each other.
• Communication in this case would help individual behavioral
changes. “participating in civic action.”
• Many of its barangays, or villages, suffer from the pitfalls this
calamity brings.
• Researchers believed that there was a prevalent insufficiency or
partiality in social and moral responsibility.
Communicators need to support individuals and
communities by creating a sense of feasibility,
collectivity, and urgency arising from fact, experience,
common sense, and moral sense of responsibility

4. Research Objectives
1. Present the profile of the rice farmer-farmers in terms of age,
civil status, educational attainment, other source of income,
number of years in rice farming; and area or tract of land they
cultivate.
2. Determine the communication platforms used by the rice
farmer-farmers in sharing information on climate change.
3. Determine the communication platforms used by the rice
farmer-farmers in sharing information on climate change.
4. Describe the farmers’ adaptation to climate change.
5. Conclusion.

5. Methodology
• Population of 308,888
• Land area of 20, 940
hectares and an
agricultural area of 15,
546 hectares.
• Quantitative approach
were employed.
• Semi-structured survey
questionnaire among 50
rice farmers.
• Random sampling from
the list of members

6. Results And Discussion

8. Problems and Struggles of Rice Farmers Due
to Climate Change

9. How do Rice Farmers Adapt to Climate Change?

11. Conclusion
• The rice farmers usually utilize interpersonal communication in
sharing information on climate change.
• These practices could be sustained and passed down the
generations.
• The farmers’ profiles do not affect or vary their physical
adaptive measures and self-help programs and capacity
building.
• However, the farmers’ other source/s of income and number of
years in rice farming vary their existing agricultural practices in
adapting to climate change.