“…Anchoring and scaling CSA practices amongst small-scale farm households ask for better understanding of innovation pathways (Duflo et al, 2011;Westermann et al, 2015). Farmers face several barriers to adoption, ranging from limited knowledge (Juana et al, 2013) and innovation skills (Klerkx et al, 2013), constrained access to finance to invest in inputs necessary for the implementation of the practices (Sadler et al, 2016;Ruben et al, 2019) to several types of behavioral barriers (e.g., risk perceptions and attitudes, harmful social and gender norms) (Nigussie, 2017;Jellason et al, 2021). Other problems related to agro-ecological diversity (Andrieu and Kebede, 2020), limited bargaining power on rural markets (Sloan et al, 2019) and low trust in rural institutions (Agrawal, 2008) ask for community-based approaches to simultaneously address household-and village-level distributional conditions for continuous engagement in CSA practice adoption (Scrivens and Smith, 2013).…”