Bartl Anna Lina
Agricultural Economics and Rural Development University of Göttingen 37073 Göttingen Germany.
Glob Chall. 2024 Mar 12;8(4):2300196. doi: 10.1002/gch2.202300196. eCollection 2024 Apr.
In the present study, information collected from 360 coffee-cultivating households (HHs) is used to investigate perceptions of deficiencies in three sub-counties in Eastern Uganda and to study changes in these perceptions between two survey rounds. The results of an explorative principal components analysis identify five factors affecting farmers' perceptions. Whereas perceptions of deficiencies in the preconditions for farm management activities differ significantly between the three sub-counties investigated, indicators of deficiencies in general life quality are distributed more equally. Deteriorations are explained mainly by perceived changes in weather conditions. On the one hand, it can be assumed that the high constraint level will continue to increase in the future due to climate change and its impacts on life quality and the basic conditions required for farm management. On the other hand, access to resources such as water taps but also increased competition between buyers, have improved the situation. Results further indicate that if activities such as the expansion of information access and improvement of road conditions (after land registration) are implemented on a larger scale, these negative trends can be partly counteracted to help farmers maintain the conditions for effective farm management and improve their quality of life in the future.
在本研究中，从乌干达东部三个次县的360个咖啡种植农户收集的信息用于调查他们对不足之处的看法，并研究两轮调查之间这些看法的变化。探索性主成分分析的结果确定了影响农民看法的五个因素。在所调查的三个次县中，农场管理活动前提条件不足之处的看法存在显著差异，而总体生活质量不足之处的指标分布更为均衡。恶化主要是由感知到的天气条件变化来解释的。一方面，可以假定由于气候变化及其对生活质量和农场管理所需基本条件的影响，未来高约束水平将继续上升。另一方面，诸如水龙头等资源的获取以及买家之间竞争的加剧，改善了这种情况。结果还表明，如果诸如扩大信息获取和改善道路状况（土地登记后）等活动得到更广泛实施，这些负面趋势可以得到部分抵消，以帮助农民维持有效的农场管理条件，并在未来改善他们的生活质量。
