Private Sector Actions to Enable Climate-Smart Agriculture in Small-Scale Farming in Tanzania

Quail, Sheryl; Onyango, Leah; Recha, John W.M.; Kinyangi, James

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“…About 36.8% of the publications (n = 28) made reference to interaction through networking (18.4%, n = 14) [102] and partnership (30.2%, n = 23) [44,103]. The publications explored how the growing pool of investment in climate change offers an opportunity for the local communities to build their capacities and develop innovative partnership with government organizations [44,102].…”

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Institutional Perspectives of Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Systematic Literature Review

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Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is increasingly seen as a promising approach to feed the growing world population under climate change. The review explored how institutional perspectives are reflected in the CSA literature. In total, 137 publications were analyzed using institutional analysis framework, of which 55.5% make specific reference to institutional dimensions. While the CSA concept encompasses three pillars (productivity, adaptation, and mitigation), the literature has hardly addressed them in an integrated way. The development status of study sites also seems to influence which pillars are promoted. Mitigation was predominantly addressed in high-income countries, while productivity and adaptation were priorities for middle and low-income countries. Interest in institutional aspects has been gradual in the CSA literature. It has largely focused on knowledge infrastructure, market structure, and hard institutional aspects. There has been less attention to understand whether investments in physical infrastructure and actors' interaction, or how historical, political, and social context may influence the uptake of CSA options. Rethinking the approach to promoting CSA technologies by integrating technology packages and institutional enabling factors can provide potential opportunities for effective scaling of CSA options.

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“…Evidence of the value of public-private interaction has not been captured much in the CSA literature. Few publications related to public-private connection exist [44,57,103], but there is still limited understanding of how this kind of cooperation adds value to the upscaling of the CSA options.…”

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Institutional Perspectives of Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…Apart from public sectors, the private sectors, financial institutions and civil society have an important role to play in climate-smart food systems (FAO 2013). Hence, they have the potential to respond to long-term climate change by initiating need-based CSA interventions in agriculture and allied sectors (Quail et al 2016;Zougmoré et al 2016;Olorunfemi et al 2020). In Nepal, private business firms such as Golchha Group, Sharda Group and Probiotech-Nimbus Group have committed to skilling farmers on the improved agronomic practices and facilitating their access to stress-resilient seeds, irrigation technologies and fertilisers.…”

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Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and extension advisory service (EAS) stakeholders' prioritisation: a case study of Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, India

Vincent¹,

Balasubramani²

2021

Journal of Water and Climate Change

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Several climate-smart agriculture (CSA) interventions are promoted by public, private and civil societies in India. However, there is a considerable variation among them. Therefore, to understand the different CSA interventions supported and prioritised by the public and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as well as their impacts at the farmer level, a case study was undertaken in Anantapur district, as it is highly vulnerable to climate change risks due to the increase in temperature, delayed monsoon, erratic rainfall and frequent occurrence of droughts. A case study research method was followed to assess the CSA interventions promoted by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Department of Agriculture, Accion and Adarsha. The findings showed that KVK has focused its extension advisory services on the promotion of field crop (e.g. groundnut)-based CSA. The extension services of NGO-Accion were aimed at promoting horticulture, and Adarsha was prioritised promoting millet-based CSA interventions. Whereas the CSA priority of the department of agriculture was driven by the prevailing zero-budget natural farming project. However, interventions of KVK and NGOs were implemented on a limited scale. Therefore, the recommendations that emerged from the study will help the stakeholders to ensure convergence and foster synergy in implementing CSA interventions at scale. Some challenges faced during the research study were difficulties in the identification of the right stakeholders who were promoting CSA, also their technologies and services related to CSA. However, after a thorough discussion with the extension officers of Anantapur district, the stakeholders were identified and their CSA interventions were ascertained through focus group discussions and secondary data reviewed from magazines and other publications. Furthermore, the present study focused only on the CSA interventions promoted by two public sectors and two NGOs, and there is a wider scope for identifying more stakeholders, e.g. private sector, FPOs and entrepreneurs, and assessing their extent of involvement in the promotion of CSA and prioritisation.

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“…A more recent attempt was the Soil Erosion Control and Afforestation Project (SECAP) between [1980][1981][1982][1983][1984][1985][1986][1987][1988][1989][1990][1991][1992][1993][1994][1995][1996][1997][1998][1999] (Shelukindo, 1995;Johansson, 2001). SECAP is a widely accredited project for its terracing efforts, large scale tree planting, introduction of dairy cows and many rural development initiatives (Quail et al, 2016). Around the same time, the Traditional Irrigation Improvement Programme (TIP) used irrigation water as an incentive towards advocating soil conservation (Shelukindo, 1995).…”

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Influence of biophysical aspects on the performance of sustainable land management measures in the Usambara highlands of Tanzania

Wickama¹

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Effectiveness of soil conservation measures at a landscape scale in the WestUsambara highlands, Tanzania 15 2. Effectiveness of soil conservation measures at a landscape scale in the West Usambara highlands, Tanzania The adoption of soil and water conservation (SWC) technologies among small holder farmers in the East African highlands is an area which poses many challenges. When adoption occurs across a vast landscape, the locations and effectiveness of the adopted measures are often not adequately known. For this reason, the majority of SWC studies in the highlands of East Africa employed field surveys and experiments to locate and estimate effectiveness of the installed technologies. This approach however has certain limitations when applied at a landscape scale. Potentially, remote sensing techniques could be used for the purpose of locating soil conservation structures, while modeling can help in estimating the effectiveness of the implemented measures. This study therefore employed remote sensing and GIS techniques to 1) to locate SWC structures in two 100 km2 areas in the West Usambara highlands of Tanzania, and 2) to determine the effectiveness of the implemented measures in reducing soil erosion at a landscape scale. The study was conducted in the west Usambara highlands of north-eastern Tanzania as a paired plot design in which two blocks of 100 km 2 each were studied using pixel (Maximum Likelihood Classification) and object-based image analysis (OBIA) remote sensing techniques to detect land use patterns and adoption of soil conservation technologies. Soil losses were modeled using the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE)-model while effectiveness of the measures was estimated from calculations. Results indicate that there are large differences in the adoption of soil conservation technologies between the two blocks. The study also finds the Maximum Likelihood Classifier to be reliable in generating land use thematic layer maps from which soil conservation measures can be studied with ease in mountainous areas. The OBIA-technique was found to be effective in identifying, classifying and mapping of the adopted SWC technologies. Effectiveness of the installed technologies remained comparable across the blocks but with higher indices for Sunga area. The study concludes that adoption of the SWC technologies in the two blocks is largely influenced by biophysical conditions within and between the two blocks and is not related to the quality of the technologies being implemented in either block Based on: J. Wickama, R. Masselink , G. Sterk. 2015. The effectiveness of soil conservation measures at a landscape scale in the West Usambara highlands, Tanzania, Geoderma,[241][242][168][169][170][171][172][173][174][175][176][177][178][179]

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Private Sector Actions to Enable Climate-Smart Agriculture in Small-Scale Farming in Tanzania

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Institutional Perspectives of Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Systematic Literature Review

Institutional Perspectives of Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Systematic Literature Review

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and extension advisory service (EAS) stakeholders' prioritisation: a case study of Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, India

Influence of biophysical aspects on the performance of sustainable land management measures in the Usambara highlands of Tanzania

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