声明
Table of contents
摘要
ABSTRACT
Acronyms and abbreviations
Chapter 1 General introduction
1.1 Background
1.1.1 Rwanda profile
1.1.2 Institutional indicators
1.1.3 Socio-economic indicators
1.1.4 Ecological indicators
1.1.5 Soil conservation
1.1.6 Crop intensification
1.1.7 Climate change
1.1.8 Adaptation to climate change
1.2 Problem statement,motivation and significance
1.3 Objectives and hypotheses
1.4 Research framework
1.5 Study area
1.6 Survey design,data collection and analysis
1.7 Thesis outline
Chapter 2 Factors influencing the adoption of soil conservation techniques in Northern Rwanda
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Methodology
2.2.1 Study area
2.2.2 Methods
2.3 Results and discussion
2.3.1 Farmers’ awareness on the causes and effects of soil erosion
2.3.2 Adopted soil conservation techniques
2.3.3 Reasons for continued soil erosion
2.3.4 Factors influencing the adoption of soil conservation techniques
2.4 Conclusions
Chapter 3 Factors influencing farmers’ participation in crop intensification Program in Rwanda
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Methodology
3.2.1 Study area description
3.2.2 Household survey
3.2.3 Model specification
3.2.4 Data analysis
3.3 Results and discussion
3.3.1 Factors affecting farmers’ participation in the CIP
3.3.2 Constraints that hinder the farmers ‘participation in crop intensification program
3.4 Conclusions
Chapter 4 The role of social capital in adaptation to climate change in Northwestern Rwanda
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Methodology
4.2.1 Study area description
4.2.2 Data collection
4.2.3 Data analysis
4.3 Results and discussion
4.3.1 Effects of land characteristics and social capital indicators on adaptation to climate change
4.3.2 Adopted adaptation measures to climate change
4.3.3 Correlation between social capital indicators and adopted adaptation measures to climate change
4.4 Conclusions
Chapter 5 Assessing the drivers of the farmers’ willingness to invest in adaptation to climate change in Gishwati watershed,Northwestern Rwanda
5.1 Introduction
5.1.1 Contingent valuation method
5.1.2 Planned adaptation to climate change in Rwanda
5.2 Methodology
5.2.1 Study area
5.2.2 Data collection and analysis
5.3 Results and discussion
5.3.1 Farmers’ knowledge of planned adaptation to climate change
5.3.2 Farmers’ willingness to pay for planned adaptation to climate change
5.3.3 Factors influencing the farmers’ willingness to pay for planned adaptation to climate change
5.4 Conclusions
Chapter 6 Synthesis
6.1 Major findings
6.2.Innovations and policy implications
6.3.Research gaps and further orientations
References
Appendix
Supplementary materials
Publications
Acknowledgements