Implications of climate-smart strategy adoption by farm households for food security in Tanzania

Brüssow, Kathleen; Faße, Anja; Grote, Ulrike

doi:10.1007/s12571-017-0694-y

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“…In a survey carried out in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, Rufino et al (2013) stated that most farmers had knowledge of the use of cassava as a drought tolerant plant to overcome drought periods but few of them already cultivated cassava. In a recent study, also from the Trans-SEC framework, Brüssow et al (2017) reported that the replacement of the usually planted food crop by drought tolerant crops seems to be a promising strategy to enhance food security in Tanzania. The authors also confirmed that some Tanzanian farmers already use this strategy.…”

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“…The food security definition agreed on by the World Food Summit in 1996 states that food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (FAO 2008;Pinstrup-Andersen 2009). Hence, this definition is based on availability, access and utilization, underlined by stability (Brüssow et al 2017). These four components have to be accomplished to maintain or achieve food security.…”

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“…Simultaneously, the adverse effects of climate change will jeopardize food security. These concerns have sparked a broad discussion among scientists and policymakers on how to sustainably increase and ensure food security (Devereux 2007;Brüssow et al 2017). Rufino et al (2013) highlighted the need for policy measures in East Africa to increase the cultivation and consumption of drought tolerant crops such as cassava (Manihot esculenta), sorghum (Sorghum bicolor), pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) and legumes as a beneficial strategy for future food security.…”

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Key factors influencing food security of smallholder farmers in Tanzania and the role of cassava as a strategic crop

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Due to beneficial characteristics of cassava such as robustness and versatility for multiple uses, it can have a major role in contributing to local food security. The objective of this study was to find out whether and how the cultivation of cassava benefits smallholder farmers in the regions of Dodoma and Morogoro, Tanzania. In addition, the study assessed the main factors that support or threaten food security of smallholder farmer households in the survey region and analysed whether cassava cultivation could counteract them. We applied a mixed methods approach. Quantitative data were provided by a comprehensive household survey of the Trans-SEC project, and qualitative data were collected by conducting semi-structured interviews. To approach the complexity of our chosen food security definition, three approaches for household food security measurement were applied. These covered the components of food availability, food access, and food utilization. Additionally, dependent variables for regression models were constructed and a multivariate analysis was run. The results show that cassava contributes to food security in the households, but achieving food security through cassava cultivation was constrained by several factors, including pests, missing markets, poor processing, social perception and lack of knowledge. Besides these, other factors affecting food security in the study area were found, uncovering some roots of local food insecurity and serving as a basis for further research and action on how to enhance food security.

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“…Farmer-led irrigation is part of the climate-smart agricultural technologies that are geared towards sustainable food security and environmental improvements in the face of climate change. On the same note, Brussow et al [18] argued that the implementation of different climate-smart practices by farmers improved the food accessibility, availability, security, diversification, and stability in Tanzania. Further, in a study conducted in Mozambique, Beekam et al [14] illustrated that the under-representation of the informal small-scale irrigation in Manica confirmed that farmers' initiatives are barely recognized.…”

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Farmer-Led Irrigation and Its Impacts on Smallholder Farmers’ Crop Income: Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Osewe

Liu

Njagi

2020

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Irrigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa are mostly unsustainable because of lack of maintenance by their users or government planners. By contrast, evidence shows that the smallholder farmers are developing and expanding the irrigated land, using their initiatives. Farmer-led irrigation, a revolutionary agricultural intensification approach, is already in progress with the magnitude to significantly transform the living standards of smallholder farmers. However, a rigorous assessment of its impact on household welfare to ascertain this is lacking. This paper bridges this gap by assessing factors influencing the adoption of this particular approach as well as its effects on the farmers’ per capita net crop income. Our data set consists of 608 smallholder farmers in Southern Tanzania and used propensity score matching to estimate the effects of adoption on the per capita net crop income. Our results indicate that the uptake of farmer-led irrigation practices is influenced by drought experience, water user group membership, farmer organization membership, and government extension, as well as the sex of the household head. Further, there was a positive and significant effect on the adopters’ per capita net crop income, thus encouraging the need to promote farmer-led irrigation as a complement to externally promoted innovations in achieving sustainable food security. This study, therefore, recommends that the government should support the farmers’ initiative by improving roads, removing market barriers, and helping farmers who have not yet taken up the initiative. Also, the government should enact regulations to make sure farmer-led irrigation initiatives do not harm the eco-environment such as protecting domestic water users. Finally, the government should leverage microservices to the farmers such as promoting affordable and appropriate credit facilities. It is necessary to continue pursuing this vein of research to gain information regarding the definite impact of the farmer-led irrigation on household welfare.

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“…This also has negative implications for food security. Adoption of improved technology in agriculture can positively impact food security (see Brüssow et al 2017;Dibba et al 2017;Magrini and Vigani 2016), which implies that if CA and DTM continue to be pro-rich, they may not improve the food security and welfare of poor rural societies in Zimbabwe into the longer-term. For climate-resilient maize technologies such as DTM and CA to have greater impacts on maize productivity and on food security in the wider society then they have to be more pro-poor.…”

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Wealth-related inequalities in adoption of drought-tolerant maize and conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe

Makate

Mango³

2019

Food Sec.

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Wealth-related inequalities in adoption of drought-tolerant maize and conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe The International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) believes that open access contributes to its mission of reducing hunger and poverty, and improving human nutrition in the tropics through research aimed at increasing the eco-efficiency of agriculture. CIAT is committed to creating and sharing knowledge and information openly and globally. We do this through collaborative research as well as through the open sharing of our data, tools, and publications.

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Implications of climate-smart strategy adoption by farm households for food security in Tanzania

Cited by 32 publications

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Key factors influencing food security of smallholder farmers in Tanzania and the role of cassava as a strategic crop

Key factors influencing food security of smallholder farmers in Tanzania and the role of cassava as a strategic crop

Farmer-Led Irrigation and Its Impacts on Smallholder Farmers’ Crop Income: Evidence from Southern Tanzania

Wealth-related inequalities in adoption of drought-tolerant maize and conservation agriculture in Zimbabwe

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