Thirdly, the result indicates the importance of gender of the household heads to adopt adaptation options.
On the contrary, livestock holding in TLU negatively influences household's decision to adopt adaptation options at 5% probability level.
Following on from the constraints to adopt adaptation measures, respondents were asked what assistance they would require to address climate change.
Here it is suggested that a lack of capacity in terms of (financial) means and staff members prevents local governments from adopting adaptation programs more broadly [72].
This result reveals that a unit increase in a number of livestock in TLU would result in a 3.35% decrease in the probability of adopting adaptation options.
The overall goal of this study is to examine the influence of policies and social capital on farmers' decisions to adopt adaptation measures against drought.
Results show that the decision to adopt adaptation options is found to be positively influenced by male household heads, family size, access to extension service, the size of landholding, and frequency of drought and floods over the past many years.
This finding is in line with results of previous studies that showed a positive relationship between early warning information and farmer's decision to adopt adaptation option (Deressa, Yehualashet, Rajan, 2014; Phillipo, Bushesha, Mvena, 2015).
Our findings indicated that cattle herd size positively affected the choice to adopt adaptation measures such as transhumance and off-farm activities while it negatively affected concentrated livestock feed adoption (Table 6).
In particular, gender, family size, land ownership, access to extension service, livestock ownership, and frequency of droughts and floods that have happened in the past 25 years are the important factors influencing farmer's decision to adopt adaptation options.
