Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in Tanzania

Kurgat, Barnabas K.; Lamanna, Christine; Kimaro, Anthony A.; Namoi, Nictor; Manda, Lucas; Rosenstock, Todd S.

doi:10.3389/fsufs.2020.00055

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“…The integration of precision farming systems and digital technology has become the most prevalent trend in agricultural development, contributing to fewer inputs, higher yields, and less damage in agricultural production. Digitized agriculture has become a mainstream trend in numerous countries [ 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ].…”

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Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Adoption of Smart Agriculture Technology in Taiwan

Chuang

Wang

Liou

2020

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Climate change and food security are critical topics in sustainable agricultural development. The climate-smart agriculture initiative proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has attracted international attention. Smart agriculture (SA) has since been recognized as an influential trend contributing to agricultural development. Therefore, encouraging farmers to adopt digital technologies and mobile devices in farming practices has become a policy priority worldwide. However, the literature on the psychological factors driving farmers’ intentions to adopt SA technologies remains limited. This study investigated how farmers’ knowledge and attitudes regarding SA affect their adoption of smart technologies in Taiwan. A total of 321 farmers participated in a survey in 2017 and 2018, and the data were used to construct an ordinary least squares regression model of SA adoption. This study provides a preliminary understanding of the relationship between psychological factors and innovation adoption of SA technologies in a small-scale farming economic context. The findings suggest that policymakers and research and development institutes should concentrate on improving market access to established and critical SA technologies.

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Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Adoption of Smart Agriculture Technology in Taiwan

Chuang

Wang

Liou

2020

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“…These results were in line with previous studies (Lin, 2011;Truscott et al, 2009) which found that crop diversity has proved to increase resilience and biodiversity on farms, improve soil fertility and control pests and diseases. Other similar studies in Tanzania and Zimbabwe revealed that crop diversity results in significant improvement in crop productivity, income from crops and food security indicators, as measured by food consumption scores and household dietary diversity scores (Kimaro et al, 2019;Kurgat et al, 2020;Makate et al, 2016). However, a major challenge exists among smallholder farmers in Kenya with respect to crop diversification attributed to the land size under farm production.…”

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“…Synergies and tradeoffs are characteristics of climate-smart agricultural interventions. Many farm-based management practices and technologies deliver two or three of the three climate-smart benefits (Kurgat et al, 2020). According to Mainali et al (2018), synergy is an interaction among two or more actions, which will lead to an impact greater or less than the sum of individual effects.…”

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Synergies and trade-offs of selected climate smart agriculture practices in Irish potato farming, Kenya

Ogola

Ouko

2021

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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Research on and disseminating Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices has led to increased awareness and farmers' capacity to develop resilient agricultural production systems for sustainable livelihoods and food security while addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation. Thus, there is a potential in gaining valuable insight into how Irish potato smallholder farmers should respond to current and future climate risks. However, studies exploring and linking expert opinion on synergies and trade-offs in adapting the CSA practices are limited. This study integrated qualitative and quantitative data from 22 expert surveys and semistructured questionnaires to answer the following objectives: 1) Which top five CSA practices are currently used by Irish potato farmers and which ones are preferred by experts in response to climate change adaptation in Kenya? 2) How do the selected CSA practices perform in Irish potato farming in Kenya? 3) Which synergies and trade-offs occur upon implementation of these CSA practices? The study found that CSA practices most preferred by both experts and farmers are improved crop varieties, efficient use of agrochemicals, early land preparation, diversified crop production, efficient use of inorganic fertilizer, irrigation and changing planting dates. These selected CSA practices indicated the productivity pillar to be the best performing CSA pillar synergistically while trade-offs to occur across CSA pillars. These findings can inform different potato value chain stakeholders on the synergies and trade-off dynamics associated with adopting CSA practices for climate

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“…Weather smart Use personal experience to predict weather events 85.0 Usage information from radio/T.V for weather events 75. A study report from [31] showed that between 25% and 34% of households across four localities in Tanzania had used at least one of the CSA technologies listed in Figure 6 on their farms during the growing season. However, they noticed that adoption rates varied by practices, therefore affirming the fact that CSA is location-, area-, and site-specific [64,65].…”

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A Review of Climate-Smart Agriculture Technology Adoption by Farming Households in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kombat

Sarfatti²,

Fatunbi³

2021

Sustainability

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Climate change is a major constraint to the progress of Africa’s agriculture, food, and nutrition security; its effect is tied to geographical position and driven by the limited adaptive capacity of the agricultural households. The most vulnerable stakeholder group are the smallholder farming households with limited resources and knowledge of adaptation and mitigation techniques. Sub-Saharan Africa owns more than 60% of the world’s arable land with over 85% of the farmers being smallholder farmers, who are predisposed to various risks. This paper analyzes the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) processes and technologies by smallholder farming households in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study used mixed methods and an integrative literature review. This review indicated that the knowledge of CSA technologies by smallholder farmers in Africa is increasing and, thus, concerted efforts to continuously generate CSA technology would contribute to the desired positive outcome. To accelerate the pace of adoption and use of the technologies, the linkage of farmers, researchers, and extension practitioners is needed. Measures should also be put in place to ensure that CSA actions are implemented using bottom-up approaches.

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Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies in Tanzania

Cited by 73 publications

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Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Adoption of Smart Agriculture Technology in Taiwan

Farmers’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Adoption of Smart Agriculture Technology in Taiwan

Synergies and trade-offs of selected climate smart agriculture practices in Irish potato farming, Kenya

A Review of Climate-Smart Agriculture Technology Adoption by Farming Households in Sub-Saharan Africa

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