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Farmers' preferences for climate agriculture: an assessment in the Indo-Gangetic plain

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Title Farmers' preferences for climate agriculture: an assessment in the Indo-Gangetic plain
 
Creator Taneja G
Pal BD
Joshi, P.K.
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
Tyagi, N.K.
 
Subject climate
agriculture
adaptation
food security
farmers
decision making
 
Description This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The research outputs will be helpful in integrating farmers’ choices with government programs in the selected regions. The Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) was selected because it is highly vulnerable to climate change, which may adversely affect the sustainability of the rice-wheat production system and the food security of the region. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can mitigate the negative impacts of climate change and improve the efficiency of the rice-wheat-based production system. CSA requires a complete package of practices to achieve the desired objectives, but adoption is largely dependent on farmers’ preferences and their capacity and WTP.
To assess farmers’ choices and their WTP for the potential climate-smart technologies and other interventions, we used scoring and bidding protocols implemented through focus group meetings in two distinct regions of Eastern and Western IGP. We find that laser land leveling (LLL), crop insurance, and weather advisory services were the preferred interventions in Eastern IGP. Farmers preferred LLL, direct seeding, zero tillage, irrigation scheduling, and crop insurance in Western IGP. Through the bidding approach, farmers implicitly express their WTP for new technologies that could transform current agricultural practices into relatively low-carbon and more productive farming methods. But actual large-scale adoption of the preferred climate-smart technologies and other interventions would require access to funding as well as capacity building among technology promoters and users.
 
Date 2014
2014-12-16T06:37:40Z
2014-12-16T06:37:40Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Taneja G, Pal BD, Joshi PK, Aggarwal PK, Tyagi NK. 2014. Farmers' preferences for climate agriculture: an assessment in the Indo-Gangetic plain. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01337. New Delhi: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/52204
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01337.pdf
 
Language en
 
Relation IFPRI Discussion Paper
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute