Factors Influencing the Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Technologies Among Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana

Zakaria, Abraham; Sulemana, Alhassan; Kuwornu, John K.M.; Azumah, Shaibu Baanni; Derkyi, Mercy

doi:10.1007/s41748-020-00146-w

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“…This information includes changing climatic conditions and the various farming practices that could be utilized by farmers and increase the probability of farmers to adopt climate change adaptation strategies. This is also in line with the study of Mihiretu et al (2019); Omerkhil et al (2020) and Zakaria et al (2020) who emphasized the importance of extension services, which positively influences farmers' probability of adopting climate change adaptation strategies. The results of the marginal effect of frequency of extension visit indicates that a unit increase in extension visit would increase the tendency of maize farmers to adopt climate change adaptation by 1.4%.…”

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Understanding the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder maize farmers in South-west, Nigeria

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Ojo

Adetoro

2021

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Climate is one of the most important factors in agricultural productivity, which could directly or indirectly influence productivity since the climate is linked to physiological processes. It is, therefore, essential to understanding the various strategies used by farmers to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change and the factors that influence maize farmers' adoption and intensity of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder maize farmers in South-west Nigeria. In all, a sample of three hundred and thirty (311) smallholder maize farmers were interviewed. A double-hurdle count data model was employed to estimate the factors influencing farmers' adoption of adaptation strategies while accounting for selection bias with the plugging of inverse mill ratio (IMR) as a regressor. Significant variables such as household size, depreciation ratio, frequency of extension visits, access to extension, and non-farm income were factors influencing the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies among maize farmers. Age of the respondent, age square, household size, farm-based organization (FBO), non-farm income, climate information, access to credit, farmers residing in Osun State (location_Osun), distance to market significantly influenced the intensity of climate change adaptation strategies. This study, therefore, concluded that farm-level policy efforts that aim to improve rural development should focus on farmers’ membership in FBO, increase the visits of extension agents, encourage non-farm income and access to climate change information, particularly during the off-cropping season. Policies and investment strategies of the government should be geared towards supporting improved extension service, providing on-farm demonstration training, and disseminating information about climate change adaptation strategies, particularly for smallholder farmers in Nigeria.

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“…(2019) ; Omerkhil et al. (2020) and Zakaria et al. (2020) who emphasized the importance of extension services, which positively influences farmers' probability of adopting climate change adaptation strategies.…”

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Understanding the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder maize farmers in South-west, Nigeria

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Adetoro

2021

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“…Thus, extension services, membership of FBOs, and access to climate change information significantly affect intensity of adaptation. By providing farmers with information that can be used to predict the variations in weather parameters help them to effectively use climate change adaptation strategies ( Mihiretu et al., 2019 ; Omerkhil et al., 2020 ; Zakaria et al., 2020 ). Furthermore, farming households that experienced floods and droughts in the last five years employed a wide range of adaptation techniques on their farms to mitigate the effects on their livelihoods.…”

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Climate change adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers in Nigeria: does non-farm employment play any role?

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Non-farm employment in agrarian communities in developing countries has received a lot of attention. However, its role in implementing climate change adaptation strategies is rarely discussed. This study employs a crosssectional data to examine whether rural households in Southwest Nigeria are increasing the extent of climate change adaptation practices through their participation in non-farm employment. To account for selectivity bias, the study used endogenous treatment effect for count data model (precisely Poisson) augmented with the inverse probability-weighted-regression-adjustment (IPWRA) estimator. Both estimators found that rural non-farm jobs increase smallholder farmers' adaptive capacities and that participants would have used less adaptation techniques if they had not participated in non-farm work. Efforts to boost rural development must provide more employment opportunities for farmers, particularly during the off-cropping time. This will help farmers improve their ability to adopt more climate change adaptation strategies and, consequently increase farm productivity.

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“…The adoption of almost all CSAPs by farmers within the annual farm income category above KES 10,000 could be because these can meet the associated costs, especially for potato seedlings and minitubers. This declaration is empirically backed up by previous studies [34,[72][73][74][75] and an assertion by Mujeyi et al [76] where farmers with high off-farm income were inclined to embrace CSAPs and other climate change adaptation strategies than their counterparts.…”

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Understanding the socioeconomic determinants of adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices among smallholder potato farmers in Gilgil Sub-County, Kenya

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Besides climate-smart agriculture’s (CSA) potential to meet the world’s increasing food demands in the face of climate variability through sustainably increasing food production, its acceptance among farmers is still low. This could be partly because of limited insight into the contextual underpinnings of its uptake. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between selected socioeconomic factors and the adoption of CSA in Gilgil Sub-County. This study’s results were attained from a binary logistic regression model, using a sample of 120 smallholder potato farmers in two wards of Gilgil Sub-County of Nakuru County, Kenya. An analysis of the five hypothesized explanatory socioeconomic variables contained in the model disclosed that a relationship between socioeconomic factors and adoption of CSAPs was statistically significant at a 5% level of significance (χ2 = 17.966, df = 5, p < 0.05). It further revealed that only two variables had a significant relationship with the adoption of CSAPs. Among these, included gender which was negative and statistically significant at a 5% level of significance (Wald χ2 = 6.701, df = 1, p < 0.05) and annual farm income, which was positive and statistically significant at a 5% level of significance (Wald χ2 = 8.402, df = 1, p < 0.05). Therefore, securing access to vital resources for women farmers is indispensable to enhance their capacity and compliance to adjust production methods in response to climate change. Facilitating increased farm output and income among the farmers is greatly recommended.

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Factors Influencing the Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Technologies Among Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana

Cited by 58 publications

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Understanding the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder maize farmers in South-west, Nigeria

Understanding the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder maize farmers in South-west, Nigeria

Climate change adaptation strategies by smallholder farmers in Nigeria: does non-farm employment play any role?

Understanding the socioeconomic determinants of adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices among smallholder potato farmers in Gilgil Sub-County, Kenya

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