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The Household Survey for Evaluation of Climate Change Community-Based Adaptation Model for Food Security in Thailand, 2014 data were collected by Oxfam GB as part of the organisation's Global Performance Framework. Under this framework, a small number of completed or mature projects are selected at random each year for an evaluation of their impact, known as an Effectiveness Review. These data were used to evaluate the impact of the project titled 'Development and Scaling Up of a Climate Change Community-Based Adaptation Model for Food Security in Thailand'. Since 2004, Oxfam has partnered with a local organisation in Thailand, Earth Net Foundation (ENF), to promote organic rice farming and fair trade marketing in Yasothorn province. Beginning in 2008, Oxfam and ENF piloted a climate change adaptation project, which provided climate change knowledge to promote the re-planning of rice farming. The project also established a small grant to encourage farmers to invest in water management systems. In 2011 the project was scaled up, with the objective of increasing resilience and adaptation capacity of small-scale farmers to weather variability and climate change. It also aimed to support the national development of an agenda on climate change and food security, and foster cooperation among NGOs, CBOs, academics, government, and the private sector to achieve such goals. In February 2015 Oxfam administered a questionnaire in 247 households of project beneficiaries and 505 comparison households in order to evaluate the project. Quasi-experimental methods were used to evaluate the impact of the project by matching project beneficiaries with non-beneficiaries on a range of characteristics. Anonymisation: Village and district names have been removed from data. The following variables have been recoded so as to prevent unique cases that may allow identification of the respondents: main productive activity of household (combined categories) household size (capped at 8 members), age (binned in 5-year intervals), size of house (capped at 6+ rooms) and identifying characteristics of house (combined categories of roof material and wall material).
Main Topics:
Food security and adaptation to climate change among rice-farmers in Thailand.
Simple random sample
Multi-stage stratified random sample
Stratified random sample from 55 non-organic farming associations, from which 10 groups were randomly selected. From each group, 30 farmers were selected from the membership. A random sample was also taken from each of 3 groups: project beneficiaries, indirect beneficiaries, and participants in non-project farming groups.
Face-to-face interview
