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Policy incentives for smallholder adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices

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Title Policy incentives for smallholder adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices
 
Creator Asseldonk, Marcel van
Girvetz, Evan H.
Pamuk, Haki
Wattel, Cor
Ruben, Ruerd
 
Subject climate-smart agriculture-climate smart agriculture
agricultural practices
smallholders
incentives
policies
 
Description There is a large and growing literature on the potential use of policy instruments for stimulating the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices amongst smallholders. The objective of this article is to review and understand how the array of potential policy incentives can serve as mechanisms for enhancing adoption and upscaling of potential CSA practices by small-scale farmers in low-income countries. The review follows a matrix approach capturing where specific CSA practices (rows) are supported by typical policy instruments (columns) for enhancing widespread adoption. We first identify six key CSA practices, namely water management, soil and nutrient management, crop tolerance to stress, agroforestry and intercropping, crop rotation and mixed systems, and pest and disease management. Then we discuss the impact of those typical policy instruments, namely market prices, taxes and subsidies, land rights, rural finance, training and information, and certification and labeling. The review finds that most studies on this subject have a rather narrow focus on functional properties of a specific policy instrument and a particular CSA practice, thereby ignoring substitution, complementary or conditional effects between policy measures and CSA practices. Consequently, previous studies identify few incentives, particularly effective on their own. Wider perspectives on impact pathways point to the importance of sequencing and scaling for enhancing farmers' CSA adoption. We therefore advocate for more integrated approaches that also consider indirect effects of policy instruments on CSA adoption and pursue their systematic anchoring through successful policies that enhance widespread adoption.
 
Date 2023-05
2023-06-07T12:02:30Z
2023-06-07T12:02:30Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier van Asseldonk, M.; Girvetz, E.; Pamuk, H.; Wattel, C.; Ruben, R. (2023) Policy incentives for smallholder adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices. Frontiers in Political Science 5: 1112311. ISSN: 2673-3145
2673-3145
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130668
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2023.1112311
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 1112311
application/pdf
 
Publisher Frontiers Media SA
 
Source Frontiers in Political Science