Climate security and adaptation: government investment and farmer’s adaptation to climate change in coastal communities.

Climate adaptation strategies are carried out at different levels from public to private, however, less is known about how public adaptation investment affects individual choices of adaptation. Also, there is a lack of understanding of the linkage between climate adaptation strategies and climate security. Our project will explore the climate security implication for a coastal community, which are strongly affected by climate change impacts, and examine climate adaptation strategies implemented by the government and farmers in the region. Farmers in coastal region have been actively adapting to environmental changes by seeking alternative systems such as moving from rice to shrimp farming. However, climate change adaptation requires integrated strategies at different levels, i.e., community-level and household-level adaptation strategies. We will implement a lab-in-the-field experiment and household survey with rice-growing farmers to explore the relationship between government adaptation investment and farmers’ decision to adopt individual climate adaptation measures, and how these adaptation choices reflect farmers’ climate security level.