Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Trends and Adaptation Strategies in Semiarid Highlands of Eastern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Table 2

Farmers’ perception of climate change and climate shocks (n = 358).

Perceptions of climate parameters	Hawzen	Irob	test	value
	Percent	Percent
Rainfall decrease in the last 15 years			13.32	0.004
Yes	98.56	92.00
No	—	4.67
Stayed the same	0.96	3.33
Do not know	0.48	—
Local perceptions of rainfall variability			120.78	0.001
Variability in onset and cessation time of the rainy season	39.42	19.33
Decreased number of rainy days	28.85	38.67
Increased intensity of rainfall	4.33	2.00
Increased occurrence of untimely rainfall	5.23	—
Increased frequent drought occurrence	2.40	36.67
Temperature increase in the last 15 years			13.32	0.004
Yes	87.02	90
No	2.88	8.00
Stayed the same	7.69	2.00
Do not know	2.40	—
Local perceptions of temperature variability			36.38	0.001
Increased number of hot days	76.92	78.33
Increased number of warm nights	2.00	3.33
Decreased coldness in cold seasons	7.21	5.33
Rainfall occurrence last summer			28.06	0.001
On time	16.82	0.00
Too early	1.44	1.33
Too late	81.73	98.66
Rainfall termination last summer			11.84	0.003
On time	7.21	0.00
Stopped too late	0.96	2.00
Stopped too early	91.82	98.00
Rain during the harvest time last year			42.88	0.001
Yes	24.52	0.00
No	75.48	100

Does not add up to 100 because of multiple responses.