Human behavior is responsible for global climate change. The impact of climate change is worse in poor countries like Ethiopia whose agriculture heavily relies on rainfall. The aim of this research was to assess farmers’ perceptions and their collective and individual response mechanisms to the impacts of climate variability and extremes.A sequential mixed research design was applied to conduct the research. In the first phase, 22 key informants and 32 FGD participants were purposely selected for the qualitative data. Three decades of areal gridded temperature and rainfall data were collected from the National Meteorological Agency. During the second phase, quantitative data were collected from 124 randomly selected farmers through questionnaire. Appropriate qualitative and quantitative data analysis techniques were employed. Accordingly, the study revealed that the district has been experiencing a declining rainfall and increasing temperature. Persistent drought, limited surface and underground water, crop pests, and animal diseases were found to be the main impacts of climate change that harmed agricultural productivity. The traditional causal attribution of climate change to God’s wrath by farmers is decreasing. However, farmers’ collective efficacy to reverse the impact of drought was found to be low. Social loan services, borrowing seeds from relatives, working through joint collaboration (Jegie) have been major indigenous responses. Planting drought resistant crop varieties, rainwater harvesting, destocking, cut and carry livestock feeding, and soil and water conservation measures were the common planned adaptation responses to with stand the impacts of climate variability. Climate variability, especially the recurrent drought events erodes the farmers’ collective efficacy to manage the climate change risk. The introduction of drought resistant crop & livestock varieties, and livelihood diversification intervention could play crucial role to restore their adaptive capacity and confidence.

人类行为是造成全球气候变化的原因。气候变化的影响在像埃塞俄比亚这样的贫穷国家中更为严重，这些国家的农业严重依赖降雨。这项研究的目的是评估农民对气候变化和极端影响的看法及其集体和个人反应机制。采用顺序混合研究设计进行了研究。在第一阶段，特意选择了22名主要信息提供者和32名FGD参与者作为定性数据。从国家气象局收集了三十年的区域网格温度和降雨数据。在第二阶段，通过问卷调查从124位随机选择的农民那里收集了定量数据。采用了适当的定性和定量数据分析技术。因此，研究表明，该地区的降雨不断减少，气温不断升高。人们发现，持续的干旱，有限的地表水和地下水，农作物病虫害以及动物疾病是气候变化损害农业生产率的主要影响。农民对气候变化的传统因果归因正在减少。但是，发现农民抵抗干旱影响的集体效力很低。社会贷款服务，从亲戚那里借种子，通过联合合作开展工作（农民对气候变化的传统因果归因正在减少。但是，发现农民抵抗干旱影响的集体效力很低。社会贷款服务，从亲戚那里借种子，通过联合合作开展工作（农民对气候变化的传统因果归因正在减少。但是，发现农民抵抗干旱影响的集体效力很低。社会贷款服务，从亲戚那里借种子，通过联合合作开展工作（Jegie）是土著人的主要回应。计划抵御气候变化影响的常见计划适应措施是种植抗旱作物品种，雨水收集，去库存，砍伐和携带牲畜饲料以及水土保持措施。气候多变性，特别是反复发生的干旱事件，侵蚀了农民应对气候变化风险的集体能力。引入抗旱农作物和牲畜品种以及生计多样化干预措施对于恢复其适应能力和信心可能发挥关键作用。