Behavioural mechanisms and adaptation to climate change : Evidence from lab-in-the-field experiments in the upper Blue-Nile basin

Nigussie, Yalemzewd

doi:10.18174/400431

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“…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).…”

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Community-based approaches to support the anchoring of climate-smart agriculture in Tanzania

Pamuk¹,

Asseldonk²,

Wattel³

et al. 2022

Front. Clim.

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We assess the impact of community-based approaches to promote adoption of integrated climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices based on soybean cultivation combined with mulching, intercropping, crop rotation, manure application and rhizobium inoculation methods. We use quasi-experimental data of farmers participating in Farmer Field Business Schools (FFBS) and Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) in Iringa region of Tanzania. Farmers received technical training and financial support for the initial adoption of soybean production, and women's empowerment supported household's continuous involvement in CSA practices. We find a positive effect for farmers participating in the trainings provided by the FFBSs and receiving microfinance services from VLSA members on the adoption rates of several CSA practices, and this effect became more pronounced for households with higher scores on women empowerment. Farm-level improvement in soybean production and market-level incentives for soybean sales should also strengthen household income, consumption and nutrition levels to maintain CSA practices. Community-based platforms create critical external conditions for introducing CSA practices, but women's empowerment is indispensable for intrinsic incentives for anchoring their adoption.

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