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Does climate-smart agriculture improve household income and food security? Evidence from Southern Ethiopia

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Title Does climate-smart agriculture improve household income and food security? Evidence from Southern Ethiopia
 
Creator Belay, Abrham
Mirzabaev, Alisher
Recha, John W
Oludhe, Christopher
Osano, Philip M
Berhane, Zerihun
Olaka, Lydia A
Tegegne, Yitagesu T
Demissie, Teferi D
Mutsami, Chrispinus
Solomon, Dawit
 
Subject climate-smart agriculture
food security
agriculture
adaptation
 
Description Climate change threatens African countries’ economic development and afects agriculture and food security. Ethiopia is especially vulnerable to the negative efects of climate change because its economy is dependent on climate-sensitive livelihoods that have limited potential for adaptation. Emerging evidence indicates that climate-smart agriculture (CSA) can help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change and increase agricultural productivity, thereby enhancing household income and food security. In the study area, diferent CSA practices have been adopted to mitigate the negative efects of climate change and improve agricultural productivity, income, and food security. Therefore, this study examines the impact of CSA practices on household income and food security in southern Ethiopia. A total of 385 households were selected using multistage sampling. Primary and secondary
data were used, and propensity score matching with diferent types of matching algorithms, such as nearest neighbor, kernel, and radius matching, was employed to quantify the conditional impacts of CSA intervention on farm income and food security. In comparison with non adopters farmers that have adopted CSA practices had a higher food consumption score between 6.27 and 8.15, which was statistically signifcant at the 1% level. Overall, 34.55% of interviewed households had acceptable food consumption scores, 44.68% had borderline, and 20.77% had poor food consumption scores. Furthermore, households that
adopted CSA practices had a 20.30% higher average annual farm income per hectare than non-adopters. The study suggests that effective extension services, accurate climate information, and sound policy support are required to promote and scale up CSA measures in the study area to improve farmers’ adaptive capacity, farm income, and food security.
 
Date 2023-05-12
2023-05-29T12:45:05Z
2023-05-29T12:45:05Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Belay A, Mirzabaev A, Recha JW, Oludhe C, Osano PM, Berhane Z, Olaka LA, Tegegne YT, Demissie T, Mutsami C, Solomond D. 2023. Does climate-smart agriculture improve household income and food security? Evidence from Southern Ethiopia. Environmental, Development and Sustainability.
1387-585X
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130518
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-03307-9
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 28 p.
 
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source Environment, Development and Sustainability