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Uptake of Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa: What can we learn from climate-smart villages of Ghana, Mali and Niger?

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Title Uptake of Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa: What can we learn from climate-smart villages of Ghana, Mali and Niger?
 
Creator Ouedraogo, M
Partey, S T
Zougmore, R B
Nyuor, A B
Zakari, S
Traore, K B
 
Subject Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Ghana
Climate Resilient Technologies
African Agriculture
West Africa
Niger
Mali
 
Description In West Africa, the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) has been working since 2011 with various local partners to develop Climate-Smart villages (CSV) through participatory action research (PAR) at pilot sites in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Senegal. Various CSA technologies and practices have been identified and tested in these CSVs. Some of these technologies and practices include: improved varieties of crops, soil and water conservation techniques (e.g. Zaï, half-moon, tie ridging), tree planting (agroforestry), farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR), integrated soil fertility management techniques (micro-dosing, use of organic manure /compost, crop association), etc. In West Africa, adoption of agricultural innovations are thought to be constrained by several socioeconomic, institutional, infrastructural, biophysical and political factors. Therefore from the perspective of scaling up proven CSA technologies and practices at the CSVs, it is crucial to understand the determinants of their adoption.
 
Publisher CIAT
 
Date 2018-06
 
Type Other
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10753/1/Uptake%20of%20Climate-Smart%20Agriculture%20in%20West%20Africa.pdf
Ouedraogo, M and Partey, S T and Zougmore, R B and Nyuor, A B and Zakari, S and Traore, K B (2018) Uptake of Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa: What can we learn from climate-smart villages of Ghana, Mali and Niger? CIAT.