Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis
Sub-Saharan Africa is grappling with increasing food demand amid a growing population amidst a surging climate crisis. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) emerges as one option to address these challenges and enhance livelihoods. However, evidence of the impacts of CSA on livelihoods remains thin and mi...
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| author | Simutowe, Esau Ngoma, Hambulo Thierfelder, Christian |
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| description | Sub-Saharan Africa is grappling with increasing food demand amid a growing population amidst a surging climate crisis. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) emerges as one option to address these challenges and enhance livelihoods. However, evidence of the impacts of CSA on livelihoods remains thin and mixed. We used a meta-analysis with 19 studies to assess the impacts of CSA practices on crop and household income, poverty, and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the literature, adoption of CSA is positively correlated with crop and household income, and food security. We do not find statistically significant effects on poverty and food security results. These results signify the need to integrate CSA with other complementary measures such as access to extension services, markets, climate-related risk insurance, and finance to improve food security and reduce poverty. We can conjecture that the positive effects on incomes are not sufficient to significantly drive up food security and poverty alleviation. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1735522025-10-26T12:52:17Z Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis Simutowe, Esau Ngoma, Hambulo Thierfelder, Christian conservation agriculture food security impact assessment income poverty climate-smart agriculture Sub-Saharan Africa is grappling with increasing food demand amid a growing population amidst a surging climate crisis. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) emerges as one option to address these challenges and enhance livelihoods. However, evidence of the impacts of CSA on livelihoods remains thin and mixed. We used a meta-analysis with 19 studies to assess the impacts of CSA practices on crop and household income, poverty, and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the literature, adoption of CSA is positively correlated with crop and household income, and food security. We do not find statistically significant effects on poverty and food security results. These results signify the need to integrate CSA with other complementary measures such as access to extension services, markets, climate-related risk insurance, and finance to improve food security and reduce poverty. We can conjecture that the positive effects on incomes are not sufficient to significantly drive up food security and poverty alleviation. 2025-09 2025-03-10T21:07:19Z 2025-03-10T21:07:19Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173552 en Limited Access SAGE Publications Simutowe, E., Ngoma, H., & Thierfelder, C. (2025). Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis. Outlook on Agriculture. https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270251322797 |
| spellingShingle | conservation agriculture food security impact assessment income poverty climate-smart agriculture Simutowe, Esau Ngoma, Hambulo Thierfelder, Christian Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis |
| title | Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis |
| title_full | Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis |
| title_fullStr | Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis |
| title_short | Impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa: A meta-analysis |
| title_sort | impacts of climate smart agriculture on livelihoods in sub saharan africa a meta analysis |
| topic | conservation agriculture food security impact assessment income poverty climate-smart agriculture |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/173552 |
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