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Adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices and their impact on farm output in Western Kenya

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Title Adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices and their impact on farm output in Western Kenya
 
Creator Karanja Ng'ang'a, Stanley
Jalang'o, Dorcas Anyango
Girvetz, Evan H.
 
Subject SOIL
AGROFORESTRY
FERTILIZER
HOUSEHOLDS
INTERCROPPING
 
Description Adoption of soil carbon practices has the capability of increasing yield, thus improving income and food availability. This paper assessed the adoption of agricultural practices that enhance soil carbon. Data from 334 households were collected in the rural areas of Western Kenya using a multistage sampling technique. The multivariate probit model and propensity score matching method were used to analyze the determinants of adoption of soil carbon practices and the impact on output, respectively. Results show that agroforestry, intercropping, terracing, and the use of inorganic fertilizer are the dominant soil carbon practices, which are discretely and diversely affected by socioeconomic, farm-level, institutional, and biophysical characteristics. However, the adoption of maize-bean intercropping alone has a great impact on maize production and increases output by approximately 240 kilograms. The findings from this study suggest that the adoption capacity of farming households can be accelerated by independently making interventions targeting individual practices rather than compounding the practices. Consequently, emphasis should target interventions that encourage the adoption of intercropping since its economic impact has been evidently underlined.
 
Date 2019-11-12T15:48:47Z
2019-11-12T15:48:47Z
2019-11
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Ng’ang’a SK; Jalang’o DA; Girvetz E. 2019. Adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices and their impact on farm output in Western Kenya. CIAT Publication No. 485. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Kampala, Uganda. 29 p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105710
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format 29 p.
 
Publisher International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)