Agropastoralists’ Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Modeling: Software and Coding Method Accuracies for Best-Worst Scaling Data

Table 1 Climate change adaptation policy and description

Climate change policy	Description
Mutual assistance	Helping agropastoralist to rebuild his herd by donating a gift
Settlement	Combining farming and animal rearing
Strategic mobility	Mobility orientated towards researching forage and water
Strategic destocking	Reducing herd size to accommodate shortage of forage and drought
Prolific animal selection	Keeping animals capable of yielding higher meat and milk products
Sheep and cattle fattening	Increasing sheep and cattle weight by feeding on high concentrate
Vaccination	Treating animal from infectious diseases and producing safe products
Transhumance	Unidirectional movement of the herd in searching of H₂o and forage
Emergency destocking	Reducing herd size as result of disease’s outbreak
Water and soil conservation activities	Aims at increasing food and forage production
Changing herd composition	Keeping only animals that have developed strong resilience
Income generating activities	Undertaking various activities capable of boosting revenue
Forage cultivation	Selecting and growing forage to meet its increasing demand