Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania
We use quasi-experimental data collected in Iringa Tanzania to investigate the impact of a community based approach to promote the adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Based on two community-based organizations, Farmer Field Business Schools (FFBS) and Village Savings and Loan Ass...
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CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
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| author | Pamuk, Haki Asseldonk, Marcel van Wattel, Cor Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley Hella, Joseph Philip Ruben, Ruerd |
| author_browse | Asseldonk, Marcel van Hella, Joseph Philip Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley Pamuk, Haki Ruben, Ruerd Wattel, Cor |
| author_facet | Pamuk, Haki Asseldonk, Marcel van Wattel, Cor Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley Hella, Joseph Philip Ruben, Ruerd |
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| description | We use quasi-experimental data collected in Iringa Tanzania to investigate the impact of a community based approach to promote the adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Based on two community-based organizations, Farmer Field Business Schools (FFBS) and Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), this approach combines interventions on farmer training, access to microfinance, and women’s empowerment in agriculture to introduce and enhance the adoption of the practices. We find a positive effect of the interventions on the adoption rates of CSA practices, including mulching, manure composting, crop rotation and rhizobium inoculation, and soybean production. This effect was more pronounced for farmers that participated in the trainings provided by the FFBSs and members of VSLAs. Farming households scoring high in terms of women’s empowerment are also more likely to adopt the introduced practices when compared to those scoring low. We also find that increased soybean production results in increased soybean sales and consumption, showing the contribution of the interventions to the incomes and nutrition levels of the farmers. These results show that FFBS and VSLA serve as promising community based platforms to introduce interventions on farmers training, microfinance, women’s empowerment to upscale the adoption of CSA practices. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1144902025-11-05T11:07:03Z Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania Pamuk, Haki Asseldonk, Marcel van Wattel, Cor Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley Hella, Joseph Philip Ruben, Ruerd agriculture climate change food security farmers villages We use quasi-experimental data collected in Iringa Tanzania to investigate the impact of a community based approach to promote the adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Based on two community-based organizations, Farmer Field Business Schools (FFBS) and Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), this approach combines interventions on farmer training, access to microfinance, and women’s empowerment in agriculture to introduce and enhance the adoption of the practices. We find a positive effect of the interventions on the adoption rates of CSA practices, including mulching, manure composting, crop rotation and rhizobium inoculation, and soybean production. This effect was more pronounced for farmers that participated in the trainings provided by the FFBSs and members of VSLAs. Farming households scoring high in terms of women’s empowerment are also more likely to adopt the introduced practices when compared to those scoring low. We also find that increased soybean production results in increased soybean sales and consumption, showing the contribution of the interventions to the incomes and nutrition levels of the farmers. These results show that FFBS and VSLA serve as promising community based platforms to introduce interventions on farmers training, microfinance, women’s empowerment to upscale the adoption of CSA practices. 2021-07-30 2021-07-30T19:21:27Z 2021-07-30T19:21:27Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114490 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Pamuk H, van Asseldonk M, Wattel C, Ng’ang’a SK, Hella JP, Ruerd R. 2021. Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania. CCAFS Working Paper no. 361. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). |
| spellingShingle | agriculture climate change food security farmers villages Pamuk, Haki Asseldonk, Marcel van Wattel, Cor Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley Hella, Joseph Philip Ruben, Ruerd Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania |
| title | Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania |
| title_full | Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania |
| title_fullStr | Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania |
| title_short | Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania |
| title_sort | farmer field business schools and village savings and loan associations for promoting climate smart agriculture practices evidence from rural tanzania |
| topic | agriculture climate change food security farmers villages |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114490 |
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