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‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa

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Title ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa
 
Creator Branca, G.
Perelli, C.
 
Subject smallholders
climate-smart agriculture
food production
 
Description African smallholders should adopt climate-smart agriculture to make a sustainable transition towards cleaner, circular and more productive food systems. Farmers must play a key role in that process. However, the adoption and diffusion of climate-smart technologies have been slow. Here, a cross-sectional econometric analysis using primary data on sustainable farming practices in the cereal-legume farming systems of Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa and Tanzania is applied to analyse the drivers and intensity of innovation adoption. Socio-economic barriers reduce adoption intensity among marginalised farmers, and proper incentives are needed to overcome them. Business links between technology-ready smallholders and small-to-medium enterprises must be created to enable the uptake and scaling-up of innovations and the development of industrial application models. Such results can support the design of evidence-based strategies for the sustainable transformation of production systems. While national climate policies already include climate-smart agriculture as an adaptation blueprint, policy makers need empirical evidence to support large-scale adoption. This research is an innovative contribution to that effort. It uses a unique household dataset where data is scarce; it considers the impact of smallholders’ conditioning factors on technology climate-smartness level; and it estimates the correlations among a wide range of practices, agro-ecologies and geographical contexts.
 
Date 2020-10
2020-12-10T11:17:53Z
2020-12-10T11:17:53Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Branca, G. and Chiara, P. 2020. ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa. Journal of Cleaner Production 270: 121900.
0959-6526
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110449
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121900
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source Journal of Cleaner Production