Improving farmers’ livelihoods through conservation agriculture: options for change promotion in Laikipia, Kenya

Ndah, Hycenth Tim; Probst, Lorenz; Kaweesa, Sara; Kuria, Peter; Mkomwa, Saidi; Rodrigues, Paulo Simões; Basch, Gottlieb; Uckert, Götz; Sieber, Stefan; Knierim, Andrea; Zander, Peter; Schuler, Johannes

doi:10.1080/14735903.2020.1746063

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“…Various scholars have recommended many solutions for CA promotion in communities: localized expertise, unbiased facilitation, subsidized inputs, and robust institutional system support, 53 improvement of personal capacity for applying CA, community support, opportunity to use, increasing farmers' motivation, and perceived content validity of CA, 3 collaboratively designed projects to better suit local needs and context with inclusive implementation arrangements, emphasis on climate resilience benefits of CA rather than economic benefits to manage farmers' expectations, intensification of multidisciplinary research that incorporates farmers' knowledge and experiences to develop suitable, flexible, and low-input CA packages, and stakeholders' participation. 54…”

Section: Ca Challenges and Barriers In Iran And Other Countriesmentioning

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Challenges of Applying Conservation Agriculture in Iran: An Overview on Experts and Farmers’ Perspectives

Ataei

Sadighi

Aenis

et al. 2021

Air, Soil and Water Research

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Different countries face diverse challenges for Conservation Agriculture (CA) development. The main purpose of this study was to examine the challenges of applying CA in Iran from the perspective of experts and farmers. A focus group method was used to investigate the challenges. The research sample consisting of farmers and experts of CA in different provinces includes those 19 experts and 15 farmers. Inductive content analysis and coding (open, axial, and selective coding) were employed to analyze the farmers’ and experts’ discussions. The findings showed that the challenges of applying CA in the studied provinces could be divided into 6 general categories: institutional-infrastructure (7 concepts), economic (5 concepts), training-research (2 concepts), environmental (4 concepts), mechanization (2 concepts), and cognitive (2 concepts) challenges. The economic and institutional-infrastructure challenges were the most frequent related to applying CA. It can be concluded that to solve the challenges of applying CA, it is necessary to link various sectors of government (the Ministry of Agriculture), education and research (Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization), and industry together. But farmers themselves are also a major contributor to meet the challenges of CA development through participation in planning CA project and training-extension programs. Therefore, farmers’ communities should also pave the way for a transition from conventional agriculture to CA with their participation.

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Section: Ca Challenges and Barriers In Iran And Other Countriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges of Applying Conservation Agriculture in Iran: An Overview on Experts and Farmers’ Perspectives

Ataei

Sadighi

Aenis

et al. 2021

Air, Soil and Water Research

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“…We further suggest that long-term commitment and trust among stakeholders will be key to establishing a partnership that will last long enough to see the benefits of breeding efforts. Previous studies have highlighted the pivotal role of a lead stakeholder in such a partnership, who is seen and accepted as being unbiased (Probst et al 2019;Ndah et al 2020). Indeed, several studies show that breeding programs can fail if the trust in leadership and organization is low (Camara et al 2019;Wurzinger and Gutierrez 2017).…”

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Values and Beliefs That Shape Cattle Breeding in Southwestern Burkina Faso

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Cattle production in southwestern Burkina Faso is under pressure because of resource scarcity, changing climate, and cattle diseases. Well-adapted local breeds, such as Lobi taurine cattle, are increasingly replaced by more productive exotic breeds. Community-based breeding programs (CBBPs) could be a viable option for preserving the breed and improving its productivity. Presuming that CBBPs would succeed only if they align with producers’ beliefs and values, we relied on a combination of conceptual frameworks (theory of basic values, rural livelihood transitions) to explore the values and beliefs of cattle producers. Security was the respondents’ dominant value in their aim to mitigate threats to livelihood, and it was closely linked to achievement in terms of harvest and animal quantity. Livestock-oriented respondents particularly valued conformity with accepted social roles, while achievement and power were more pronounced among crop-oriented respondents. We conclude that CBBPs, to be successful, will need to reduce threats to participants’ livelihood and make benefits of participation immediately visible. We consider the emergence of trusted leadership from the community to be pivotal for creating momentum for novel arrangements in cattle keeping and feeding.

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Soil conservation projects and their consequences: the behavior analysis of Iranian farmers

Yaghoubi Farani,

Hedayati Nia,

Shanazi

et al. 2024

Environ Dev Sustain

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Improving farmers’ livelihoods through conservation agriculture: options for change promotion in Laikipia, Kenya

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Challenges of Applying Conservation Agriculture in Iran: An Overview on Experts and Farmers’ Perspectives

Challenges of Applying Conservation Agriculture in Iran: An Overview on Experts and Farmers’ Perspectives

Values and Beliefs That Shape Cattle Breeding in Southwestern Burkina Faso

Soil conservation projects and their consequences: the behavior analysis of Iranian farmers

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