‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa
African smallholders should adopt climate-smart agriculture to make a sustainable transition towards cleaner, circular and more productive food systems. Farmers must play a key role in that process. However, the adoption and diffusion of climate-smart technologies have been slow. Here, a cross-secti...
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| author | Branca, G. Perelli, Chiara |
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| description | African smallholders should adopt climate-smart agriculture to make a sustainable transition towards cleaner, circular and more productive food systems. Farmers must play a key role in that process. However, the adoption and diffusion of climate-smart technologies have been slow. Here, a cross-sectional econometric analysis using primary data on sustainable farming practices in the cereal-legume farming systems of Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa and Tanzania is applied to analyse the drivers and intensity of innovation adoption. Socio-economic barriers reduce adoption intensity among marginalised farmers, and proper incentives are needed to overcome them. Business links between technology-ready smallholders and small-to-medium enterprises must be created to enable the uptake and scaling-up of innovations and the development of industrial application models. Such results can support the design of evidence-based strategies for the sustainable transformation of production systems. While national climate policies already include climate-smart agriculture as an adaptation blueprint, policy makers need empirical evidence to support large-scale adoption. This research is an innovative contribution to that effort. It uses a unique household dataset where data is scarce; it considers the impact of smallholders’ conditioning factors on technology climate-smartness level; and it estimates the correlations among a wide range of practices, agro-ecologies and geographical contexts. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1104492026-01-22T09:19:39Z ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa Branca, G. Perelli, Chiara smallholders climate-smart agriculture food production African smallholders should adopt climate-smart agriculture to make a sustainable transition towards cleaner, circular and more productive food systems. Farmers must play a key role in that process. However, the adoption and diffusion of climate-smart technologies have been slow. Here, a cross-sectional econometric analysis using primary data on sustainable farming practices in the cereal-legume farming systems of Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa and Tanzania is applied to analyse the drivers and intensity of innovation adoption. Socio-economic barriers reduce adoption intensity among marginalised farmers, and proper incentives are needed to overcome them. Business links between technology-ready smallholders and small-to-medium enterprises must be created to enable the uptake and scaling-up of innovations and the development of industrial application models. Such results can support the design of evidence-based strategies for the sustainable transformation of production systems. While national climate policies already include climate-smart agriculture as an adaptation blueprint, policy makers need empirical evidence to support large-scale adoption. This research is an innovative contribution to that effort. It uses a unique household dataset where data is scarce; it considers the impact of smallholders’ conditioning factors on technology climate-smartness level; and it estimates the correlations among a wide range of practices, agro-ecologies and geographical contexts. 2020-10 2020-12-10T11:17:53Z 2020-12-10T11:17:53Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110449 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Branca, G. and Chiara, P. 2020. ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa. Journal of Cleaner Production 270: 121900. |
| spellingShingle | smallholders climate-smart agriculture food production Branca, G. Perelli, Chiara ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| title | ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| title_full | ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| title_fullStr | ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| title_short | ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| title_sort | clearing the air common drivers of climate smart smallholder food production in eastern and southern africa |
| topic | smallholders climate-smart agriculture food production |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110449 |
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