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Farmer Field School Approach as a Driver to the Uptake of Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies

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Title Farmer Field School Approach as a Driver to the Uptake of Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies
 
Creator Mandaza, McLarence
Magagula, Futhi
Mitti, Joyce
 
Subject smallholders
agriculture
capacity development
climate change
climate-smart agriculture
adaptation
 
Description Smallholder farming in the southern African region is characterised by low agricultural production and productivity, whereas food and nutrition insecurity is characterised by an insecure livelihood activity for most people who depend on it. The challenge confronting the sector is to increase food production and its incomeearning capacity under an increasingly complex climatic environment. Climate change has compounded existing challenges constraining ambition to improve agricultural productivity and the welfare of smallholder farmers even further. The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecasts that climate
variability and change will severely compromise agricultural production and food access in Africa and other regions. As climate change impacts expand in reach and severity, global food systems face risks of reduced agricultural production, market volatility, and increased threats to rural livelihoods and food security (Foley et al., 2011). To confront these emerging challenges while enhancing agriculture resilience, there is a growing thrust to transform agriculture activities through the wide-scale adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies. The existing wide range of CSA technologies that have the potential to achieve increased production and productivity while enhancing farmers’ resilience and adaptation to climate change provide frontline solutions to improve the state of agriculture production and productivity. A basket of CSA practices that are being promoted reflects emerging best practices across the region. These include conservation agriculture systems encompassing crop rotation and intercropping practices, drought-tolerant crop varieties, seed genetic resource banking, improved fodder production, rainwater harvesting technologies, watershed management, and integrated soil fertility management. Upscaling these CSA practices at the farmer level goes beyond adaptation and mitigation to climate change effects and demands innovative extension approaches to drive the adoption of these practices.
 
Date 2023-06
2023-12-18T14:16:51Z
2023-12-18T14:16:51Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Mandaza M, Magagula F, Mitti J. 2023. CCARDESA Farmer Field School Approach as a Driver to the Uptake of Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies. AICCRA Report. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research in Africa (AICCRA).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135507
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 17 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa