The economics of adoption and management of alley cropping in Haiti

Bayard, Budry; Jolly, Curtis M.; Shannon, Dennis A.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.05.001

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“…According to Bekele & Dekele (2003) age had no influence on a farmer's decision to participate in climate change adaptation activities. However, according to Bayard et al (2007) age is positively related to some climate change adaptation measures. Most farmers in Limpopo province assume that old age is associated with more experience and they expect older farmers to adapt to changes in climate while young farmers are expected to have longer planning horizon and thus to take long term adaptation measures.…”

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“…Various studies have shown that gender is an important variable affecting adoption decisions at the farm level. According to Bayard et al (2007) female farmers are more likely to adopt natural resource management and conservation practices. It was also emphasised by Burton et al (1999) that female farmers are indeed important in the choice of agricultural practices to adopt, particularly in regard to conservation or sustainable technology.…”

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Climate Change and Agricultural Production in South Africa: Impacts and Adaptation options

Maponya¹,

Mpandeli²

2012

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The primary aim of the paper was to identify the impacts and adaptation options of climate variability and change on agricultural production in Limpopo province. The following objectives were identified: to understand the impacts of climate variability and change on agricultural production in Limpopo province ; to assess the impacts of climate variability and change on agricultural production in Limpopo province and to identify adaptation measures that reduces the impacts of climate variability and change on agricultural production in Limpopo province. A representative sample of 300 farmers aged 16 -65+ years (46 percent males and 54 percent females) participated in the study. The study involved Sekhukhune and Capricorn districts, with 56 percent farmers in Capricorn and 44 percent in Sekhukhune district. The following 11 local municipalities were visited: Elias Motsoaledi, Makhuduthamaga, Fetakgomo, Ephraim Mogale, Tubatse, Lepelle Nkumpi, Blouberg, Aganang, Polokwane, and Molemole. Statistics was used to determine climate variability and change impact on agricultural production. Results indicate that farmers are aware that Limpopo province is getting warmer and drier with increased frequency of droughts, changes in the timing of rains, observed trends of temperature and precipitation. This paper also confirmed that being full time farmer, gender, information on climate change, information received through extension services and adaptation to climate change are some of the important determinants of agricultural production, food scarcity and unemployment. The paper also presented perceived adaptation strategies of selected Limpopo province farmers. Some of their perceived adaptation strategies included: (a) soil management strategies, (b) water management strategies and (c) others like use of subsidies and use of insurance. Other important adaptation options being used by farmers were also discussed in this paper including different adaptation measures against colds, heat, frost, abnormal wind, hail, lack of extension support, nematodes, insecticides, worms, temperature and rainfall. The results of this paper are potentially valuable to the agricultural sector considering the threates that climate change poses across climate sensitive sectors

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Climate Change and Agricultural Production in South Africa: Impacts and Adaptation options

Maponya¹,

Mpandeli²

2012

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“…Older farmers, owing to their accumulated experience and wealth, can diversify their income to safeguard their livelihood (Table 3) (Aklilu and Catley 2011;Bayard et al 2007). The positive relationship between access to credit and income diversification shows the role institutions may play in enabling adaptation (Di Falco et al 2011).…”

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Adaptation of agriculture to climate change in semi-arid Borena, Ethiopia

Ng’ang’a

Wijk

Rufino³

2016

Reg Environ Change

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Livestock production is very risky due to climate variability in semi-arid Sub-Saharan Africa. Using data collected from 400 households in the Borena zone of the Oromia Region, we explored what drives adoption of agricultural practices that can decrease the vulnerability of agro-pastoralists to climate change. Households with more adaptive capacity adopted a larger number of practices. The households' adaptive capacity was stronger when the quality of local institutions was high. However, adaptive capacity had less explanatory power in explaining adoption of adaptation options than household socio-economic characteristics, suggesting that aggregating information into one indicator of adaptive capacity for site-specific studies may not help to explain the adoption behaviour of households. Strong local institutions lead to changes in key household-level characteristics (like membership to community groups, years lived in a village, access to credit, financial savings and crop income) which positively affect adoption of agricultural practices. In addition, better local institutions were also positively related to adoption of livestock-related adaptation practices. Poor access to a tarmac road was positively related to intensification and diversification of crop production, whereas it was negatively related to the intensification of livestock production, an important activity for generating cash in the region. Our findings suggest that better local institutions lead to changes in household characteristics, which positively affect adoption of adaptation practices, suggesting that policies should aim to strengthen local institutions.

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“…Especially in low income countries, socio-economic factors, resource constraints, societal hierarchies, and psychological factors have been widely identified as major constraints to CCA by smallholder farmers (Bayard et al, 2007;Deressa et al, 2009). Other frequently reported barriers include unfamiliarity of the local people with available data on climate change, lack of local expertise, lack of a clear role for local governments, and lack of focus on adaptation at the national level leading to a lack of attention to CCA at the local level Hughes et al, 2015).…”

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“…Evidence from various sources indicates there is a positive relationship between education level of the household head (Maddison, 2007;Obayelu et al, 2014); age of head of household (Bayard et al, 2007) and diversification of adaptation to climate change (Igodan et al, 1988;Maddison, 2007). This implies that farmers with higher levels of education and more farming experiences are more likely to adapt better to climate change.…”

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Developing adaptive capacity in times of climate change in central rural Vietnam: exploring smallholders’ learning and governance

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The economics of adoption and management of alley cropping in Haiti

Cited by 93 publications

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Climate Change and Agricultural Production in South Africa: Impacts and Adaptation options

Climate Change and Agricultural Production in South Africa: Impacts and Adaptation options

Adaptation of agriculture to climate change in semi-arid Borena, Ethiopia

Developing adaptive capacity in times of climate change in central rural Vietnam: exploring smallholders’ learning and governance

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