Weather extremes and household welfare in rural Kenya

Wineman, Ayala; Mason, Nicole M.; Ochieng, Justus; Kirimi, Lilian

doi:10.1007/s12571-016-0645-z

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“…Some studies have focused on the effectiveness of coping mechanisms as a way of measuring resilience on a household level. Looking at the effects of drought in rural Kenya, Wineman et al (2017) find that credit availability and access to different sources of income reduced households' chances of falling into poverty after a low-rainfall shock. Arouri et al (2015) find similar results in Vietnam, showing that greater credit availability enabled households to better cope with the effects of natural disasters.…”

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The Road to Recovery the Role of Poverty in the Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Accra

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The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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“…Ochieng, Kirimi and Mathenge (2016) estimated the effects of climate variability and change in crop revenue on maize and tea revenues earned by smallholder farmers in Kenya, finding differences between the two crops; temperature affected crop revenues negatively in maize but positively in tea production, while rainfall had a negative effect on income from tea. An analysis by Wineman et al (2016) explored the channels through which exposure to extreme weather in Kenya affects the well-being of smallholder farm households, based on longitudinal and spatial analysis of income-and calorie-based measures of welfare. The authors found that extreme weather generally affects household welfare via crop production, recommending the development of new varieties with enhanced tolerance of dry and moist extremes.…”

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Climate, shocks, weather and maize intensification decisions in rural Kenya*

Bozzola¹,

Smale²,

Falco³

2018

Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa

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We explore how climate, climate risk and weather affect maize intensification among smallholders in Kenya. We find that each plays an important role in maize intensification choice. The economic implications of this choice are also analyzed. We find that the share of maize area planted to hybrid seeds contributes positively to expected crop income, without increasing exposure to income variability or downside risk. The promotion of maize hybrids is potentially a valuable adaptation strategy to support the well-being of smallholder farmers, especially if these prove tolerant to a wide range of conditions.

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“…Building their adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change is key to enable them protect their livelihoods and ensuring their food security. The ability to cope with the impacts of weather shocks and natural disasters brought by the effects of climate change depends largely on the household's resilience, or its capacity to absorb the impact of, and recover from, a shock [13]. One way of combatting the effects of climate change is through climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices [1,11,14,15].…”

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Effect of climate-smart agricultural practices on household food security in smallholder production systems: micro-level evidence from Kenya

2018

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Background: Climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa has had a negative impact on agricultural production leading to food insecurity. Climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices have the potential to reverse this trend because of its triple potential benefits of improved productivity and high income, reduction or removal of greenhouse gases and improved household food security. Hence, we empirically find the determinants of choice and the effect of CSAs on household food security among smallholder farmers in Kenya. Methods: Primary data were collected in Teso North Sub-county, Busia County of Kenya, among smallholder farmers. CSA practices used by farmers were grouped by principal component analysis and linked to food security by multinomial endogenous switching regression model. Results: With the application of principal component analysis, we clustered the CSA practices into 4 components: crop management, field management, farm risk reduction and soil management practices. We find that the greatest effect of CSA adoption by smallholder farmers on food security is when they use a larger package that contains all the four categories of practices. Adopters of this package were 56.83% more food secure in terms of HFCS and 25.44% in terms of HDDS. This package mitigates upon the impacts of climate change as well as enhancing nutrient availability in the soils for higher productivity. Further, adoption of this package was positively influenced by gender of the household head, farm size and value of productive farm assets. Conclusions: CSAs have the potential to alleviate food insecurity among smallholder farmers if used in combinations and to a larger extend. To enhance adoption, land fragmentation should be discouraged through civic education and provision of alternative income-generating activities for farmers to benefit when practiced on relatively bigger land. Farmers should be sensitized on the need to invest in farm productive assets in order to absorb the risks of climate change while enhancing adoption of CSA practices.

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Weather extremes and household welfare in rural Kenya

Cited by 40 publications

References 37 publications

The Road to Recovery the Role of Poverty in the Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Accra

The Road to Recovery the Role of Poverty in the Exposure, Vulnerability and Resilience to Floods in Accra

Climate, shocks, weather and maize intensification decisions in rural Kenya*

Effect of climate-smart agricultural practices on household food security in smallholder production systems: micro-level evidence from Kenya

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