Many regions around the world are experiencing an increase in climate-related shocks, such as drought. This poses serious threats to farming activities and has major implications for sustaining rural livelihoods and food security. Farmers’ ability to respond to and withstand the increasing incidence of drought events needs to be strengthened and their resilience enhanced. Implementation of measures to enhance resilience is determined by decisions of farmers and it is important to understand the reasons behind their behavior. We assessed the viability of measures to enhance resilience of farmers to drought, by developing a general framework that covers economic-technical and psychological-cognitive aspects, here summarized under the terms (1) motivation and (2) feasibility. The conceptual framework was applied to cocoa farmers in Ghana and tef farmers in Ethiopia by using questionnaire-based surveys. A portfolio of five specific measures to build resilience (i.e., irrigation, shade trees, fire belts, bookkeeping, mulching, early mature varieties, weather forecast, reduced tillage, improved harvesting) in each country was evaluated with a closed-ended questionnaire that covered the various aspects of motivation and feasibility whereby farmers were asked to (dis)agree on a 5-point Likert scale. The results show that if the motivation mean score is increased by 0.1 units, the probability of implementation increases by 16.9% in Ghana and by 7.7% in Ethiopia. If the feasibility mean score is increased by 0.1 units, the probability of implementation increases by 24.9% in Ghana and by 11.9% in Ethiopia. We can conclude that motivation and feasibility matter, and we improve our understanding of measure implementation if we include both feasibility and motivation into viability assessments.

世界上许多地区正在经历与气候相关的冲击，例如干旱。这对农业活动构成严重威胁，并对维持农村生计和粮食安全产生重大影响。需要加强农民应对和抵御日益增加的干旱事件的能力，并增强他们的抵御能力。增强复原力的措施的实施取决于农民的决定，了解他们行为背后的原因很重要。我们通过制定涵盖经济技术和心理认知方面的总体框架来评估增强农民抗旱能力的措施的可行性，这里总结为 (1) 动机和 (2) 可行性。通过基于问卷的调查，将概念框架应用于加纳的可可种植者和埃塞俄比亚的 tef 种植者。使用封闭式问卷评估了每个国家建立复原力的五项具体措施（即灌溉、遮荫树、防火带、簿记、覆盖、早熟品种、天气预报、减少耕作、改善收获）的组合，其中包括农民被要求（不）同意 5 点李克特量表的动机和可行性的各个方面。结果表明，如果动机平均得分提高0.1个单位，加纳的实施概率提高16.9%，埃塞俄比亚提高7.7%。如果可行性平均分提高0.1个单位，加纳的实施概率提高24.9%，埃塞俄比亚提高11.9%。