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Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategies of Rice Farmers towards Climate

Change in Valencia City, Bukidnon, Philippines

Questionnaire

Name (Optional): _____________________________________________________ Respondent No.: ______

Address: ___________________________________________________ Date: ______________________

I. Socio- economic Profile

1. Age: ___________________________ 2. Years in schooling: __________3. Years in rice farming: _____________ 4. Household size: ____________

5. Farm size (in hectares): ____________ 6. Ethnic Origin: ______________7. Type of ownership: Owned Rented

8. Yield of rice per hectare per season:

Cropping season Variety Yield (kg/ha) Price per Kilogram

a. 1st cropping

b. 2nd cropping

c. 3rd/ /last cropping

9. Other source of income:

Source Income (PhP)

On Farm:

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II. Communicational Factors

12. Are you aware of Climate Change? Yes No

13. Extent of awareness (use code) _____

Code: 5- Great extent 4- Some Extent 3- Little Extent 2- Very little extent 1- None at all

14. If yes, what is your source of information? (pls. check)

Television Radio others (pls. specify)________________

Neighbors DA technician

15. Are you a member of any organization? Yes No

16. If yes, what organization do you belong? (pls. specify the name) ______________________

Cooperative Samahang Nayon others (pls. specify) ________________

17. Is there agricultural technician assigned in your area? Yes No18. If yes, how often does your agricultural technician visit you?

Weekly once a year

Once a month others (pls. specify) _____________

19. Have you attended any trainings/seminars about climate change? Yes No

19.1 If yes, how many times from the last two years? __________

20. Where you have attended? (pls specify) ___________________________________

21. Do you get assistance from the government and other institutions during severe climate hazards? Yes No

21.2. If yes, what government and non-govt agencies provided you assistance, what type of assistance was

provided, and what degree of satisfaction (use code) did you get?Agency Type of Assistance Degree of Satisfactiona. _______________________ _____________________ _________________

b. _______________________ _____________________ _________________

c.

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h. How dense is the population in the area?

i. What is the percentage of subsistence farmers in your household?

j. What is the percentage of old (70 y.o) and young (below 9 y.o) in your household?k. On the average, what is the income level of your household?

l. What percentages of agriculture contribute to the households income?

m. What is the average of your household who are not knowledgeable to hazards?n. How do you rate the early warning system for the hazard in your community?

o. What is the rate of access to information for the hazard in your community?

p. What is the availability of technological measures for the hazards in your community?

26. Adaptive Capacity

a. What is the rate of the available family labor in your community?b. What is the percent literacy rate in your household?c. What is the rate of availability of agro resources/inputs in your community?

d. What is the rate of presence, effectiveness and efficiency of communication systems in

your community?

e. What is the percentage of isolated agricultural areas in your community?

f. What is the rate of the presence and accessibility of support systems?

g.1. What percentage of your household can afford to spend for adaptation costg. 2. What percentage of members in your household has versatile skills for income

generation?h. What is the rate of your communitys technological ability (knowledge of adaptation

techniques including indigenous practices?)

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VI. Adaptation Practices

27. Have you adopted the following adaptation practices towards climate change? If yes, to what extent have you applied the following adaptation practices towards climate change? (Pleasnumber that describes your adaptation practices).

5- Great Extent, 4- Some Extent, 3- Little Extent, 2- Very little extent, 1- None at all

Practices

Rating

1

None at all

2

Very littleextent

3

Little Extent

4

Some Extent Great

a. Use of stress-tolerant crop varieties

b. Shift to improved cropping system

c. Planting of early, medium or late varieties (please encircle) to avoid crop loss to variations in drought/flood

occurrence

d. Early production of rice to grow other additional crops

e. New land management techniques (i.e., zero tillage for rice-wheat; resource conserving techniques)

f. Changes in agricultural water- managed techniques (water harvesting, alternated wetting and drying method,anicuts

(small- to medium-sized dams) to harvest rainwater and serve as reservoirs, underground tanks orkunds; bamboo stemsfor drip irrigation)

g. Pest and disease management techniques such as IPM

h. Development and use of crop varieties resistant to pests and diseases

i. New livestock breeds

j. Improved animal health management

k. Others (specify)

None

Thank you very much!

Respondents Signature:

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