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• Potential measures and strategies for responding to possible future increases in
the frequency or magnitude of extreme climatic events.
6.3 Results: Adaptation strategy of rain-fed farmer in lower Mekong River basin to
climate impacts
Surveyed farmers identified numerous practices currently in use in their
communities in Lao PDR, Thailand and that in their consideration lessen their
vulnerability to present day climate variability and hazards. Some of the measures are
motivated primarily by climate risks, while others are motivated by other concerns yet
nonetheless reduce climate risks by increasing the resilience of farmers’ livelihoods to
multiple sources of stress. They include measures that are implemented at the individual
farm-level (see Table 13), the community-level (see Table 14), and the national-level (see
Table 15).
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