Impact of Climate change adaptation strategies on rice farming households’ Income in the North and Centre of Benin

To cope with threats from climate change, many adaptation strategies have been widely promoted and adopted by rice farmers. This study aims to assess the impact of adaptation strategies on the income of rice farmers. To this end, the En-dogenous Switching Regression (ESR) model has been estimated. Data are from a random sample of 144 rice farmers. The results obtained show that the ESR model is statistically significant at the 1% level. Complementary irrigation, cultural diversification and the intensive rice-growing system are adaptation strategies that have positive impacts on the net incomes of rice-growers. Cultural rotation is the only strategy that has a negative impact on the net income of rice farmers. Thus, these strategies are those on which the actors of the development of the sector must carry out more concrete actions on the view of establishing a real adaptation strategy capable of mitigating the effects of climate change and improving agricultural incomes in a context of reducing hunger, poverty and guaranteeing food security.