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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agricultural and Food Economics
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1515855
This article is part of the Research Topic Promoting Sustainable Urban Development: Cultivating Climate-Resilient Cities and Nurturing an Environmentally Conscious Lifestyle View all 4 articles

Assessing farmers' vulnerability facing the climate change (Case study: Khuzestan Province, Iran

Provisionally accepted
Abdolwahed Kaabi Abdolwahed Kaabi 1Kuroush Roosta Kuroush Roosta 1*Saeed Mohammadzadeh Saeed Mohammadzadeh 2Reza Baradaran Reza Baradaran 3
  • 1 Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University,, Birjand, Iran
  • 2 Associate Professor of Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Ahwaz Branch, Ramin University, Ahwaz, Iran, Ahvaz, Iran
  • 3 Associate Professor of Department of Agriculture and Plant Breeding, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran, Birjand, Iran

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    Assessing farmers' vulnerability encountering climate change is a crucial step in identifying effective mechanisms to reduce these damages, which promotes resilience and increases the adaptive capacity of farmers. In this regard, the present study was conducted to assess farmers' vulnerability in Khuzestan province of Iran facing the climate change In terms of purpose, the research was an applied and quantitative type. The questionnaire was used for data collection. The statistical population of this study was all farmers working in Khuzestan province. Then, 384 of farmers were randomly selected for the study using Morgan's formula. The findings displayed that climate change has caused moderate to high economic, environmental, and technical-agricultural damages and lower-than-average socio-psychological damages to farmers in Khuzestan province. The results can be considered as the stepping-stone for investigating the mitigation measures, causes, and factors aggravating farmers' vulnerability and supporting their coping strategies and adaptive facilitation.

    Keywords: Assessing farmers' Vulnerability, Climate Change, Khuzestan province, Iran, enviranmental

    Received: 23 Oct 2024; Accepted: 29 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Kaabi, Roosta, Mohammadzadeh and Baradaran. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Kuroush Roosta, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University,, Birjand, Iran

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