The challenge of stimulating adoption of improved natural resource management practices in African agriculture.

Barrett, Chris; Place, Frank; Aboud, A. A.; Brown, Douglas R.

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“…The extensive literature on constraints to the adoption of agricultural technologies and practices shows that there are several factors that impede uptake, such as lack of information, risk aversion, lack of access to input and output markets, and lack of financial incentives (Barrett et al 2002;Ehui and Pender 2005;Lee 2005;Herrero et al 2010b;McDermott et al 2010). Overcoming these obstacles will require targeted investments to make smallholder systems more marketoriented (Herrero et al 2010b;McDermott et al 2010).…”

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Can agriculture support climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation and rural livelihoods? insights from Kenya

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Changes in the agriculture sector are essential to mitigate and adapt to climate change, meet growing food demands, and improve the livelihoods of poor smallholder producers. What agricultural strategies are needed to meet these challenges? To what extent are there synergies among these strategies? This paper examines these issues for smallholder producers in Kenya across several agroecological zones. Several practices emerge as triple wins, supporting climate adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and profitability goals. In particular, integrated soil fertility management and improved livestock feeding are shown to provide multiple benefits across all agroecological zones examined. Triple wins of other agricultural practices are limited to specific agroecological zones. Irrigation and soil and water conservation, for example, are essential for adaptation, mitigation, and profitability in arid areas. The results suggest that agricultural investments targeted toward these triple-win strategies will have the greatest payoff in terms of increased resilience of farm and pastoralist households and global climate change mitigation. To reap the benefits of triple-win strategies will require that policymakers, researchers, and practitioners move away from isolated approaches focused on either adaptation or mitigation or rural income generation toward a more holistic assessment of joint strategies as well as their tradeoffs and synergies.

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“…And while there tends to be a positive relationship between the use of organics and cultivation of higher-value crops, the direction of causality in that relation is unclear. On-farm investment is limited not just by incomes or crop mix, but also by the institutional and physical infrastructure in a region, land tenure, alternative (non-farm) investments, and the information available on different technologies and market opportunities (Barrett et al, 2002a). The evidence for synergistic effects is mainly from researcher-managed trials.…”

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Prospects for integrated soil fertility management using organic and inorganic inputs: evidence from smallholder African agricultural systems

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This paper reviews current organic nutrient management practices and their integration with mineral fertilizers in Sub-Saharan Africa with a view to understanding the potential impacts on a range of input markets. A number of different organic nutrient management practices have been found to be technically and financially beneficial, but they differ considerably as to their effectiveness and resource requirements. A review of African smallholder experiences with integrated soil fertility management practices finds growing use, both indigenously and through participation in agricultural projects. Patterns of use vary considerably across heterogeneous agroecological conditions, communities and households, but are stimulated by profitable commercially oriented agricultural opportunities. The potential for integrated soil fertility management to expand markets for organic inputs, labor, credit, and fertilizer is explored. We found that there are few direct analyses of these links and indirect evidence at this point in time is inconclusive. #

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“…fication, precision farming, and restoration of degraded lands can all contribute to reduced GHG emissions and/or soil carbon sequestration under certain conditions (Burney et al 2010;Lal 2004;Paustian et al 2004;Antle and Diagana 2003). But, as many researchers have documented, there has been limited adoption of sustainable land management (SLM) practices that could also contribute to a low-emissions agricultural growth path, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Southeast Asia (Barbier 2010;Pender et al 2006;Barrett et al 2002).…”

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Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: An Overview

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Zilberman

2017

Climate Smart Agriculture

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Climate change, especially through greater frequency and intensity of climate extremes, is expected to negatively impact agriculture and food security, particularly in developing countries highly dependent on rain-fed agriculture. Promoting growth and food security must draw on the rich literature of the past 50-60 years while also addressing potential structural shifts in the factors that promote growth. This paper summarizes the economic considerations of Climate Smart Agriculture, a concept developed by the FAO to address the complex issue of how to achieve sustainable agricultural growth for food security under climate change. It addresses the lack of coherence on the CSA approach by building a formal basis of the CSA concept and methodology. We do this by posing a dynamic optimization problem wherein a social planner seeks to maximize expected discounted welfare associated with agriculture of the population they serve, both now and in the future. We analyze constraints, choices, and features of design of CSA to illustrate on the concept can be applied across a range of locations and conditions. This has implications for research, innovation, and policy design.

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The challenge of stimulating adoption of improved natural resource management practices in African agriculture.

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of the present situation of natural resource management (NRM) in African agriculture, as well as the historical context and current options for improved NRM. A summary of the key issues and previous findings in the literature is also presented.

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Can agriculture support climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation and rural livelihoods? insights from Kenya

Can agriculture support climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation and rural livelihoods? insights from Kenya

Prospects for integrated soil fertility management using organic and inorganic inputs: evidence from smallholder African agricultural systems

Economics of Climate Smart Agriculture: An Overview

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