Welfare effects and gender dimensions of adoption of climate smart agriculture practices: Evidence from Kenyan small-scale farmers

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cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationAfrican Population and Health Research Centeren
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Nairobien
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationAccelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africaen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierBoscow Okumu: 0000-0002-5738-7256en
cg.creator.identifierMaren Radeny: 0000-0001-6470-8372en
cg.creator.identifierLaura Cramer: 0000-0003-1559-3497en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2025.100204en
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772655X25000047?via%3Dihub#abs0001en
cg.journalWorld Development Sustainabilityen
cg.volume6en
dc.contributor.authorOkumu, Boscowen
dc.contributor.authorRadeny, Maren A.O.en
dc.contributor.authorCramer, Lauraen
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-05T14:28:58Zen
dc.date.available2025-03-05T14:28:58Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173487
dc.titleWelfare effects and gender dimensions of adoption of climate smart agriculture practices: Evidence from Kenyan small-scale farmersen
dcterms.abstractAgricultural production in Kenya is predominantly rain-fed and highly vulnerable to climate variability and change. Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) is thus being promoted with the aim of increasing agricultural productivity, adapting to the changing climate, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Despite increased adoption of CSA practices by smallholder farmers, the heterogenous welfare effects are hardly understood as the results have been mixed. Moreover, despite the labour burden of rural women in agricultural production exceeding that of men– especially in Kenya–the drivers of adoption of CSA practices and the gender differential impact are barely understood. This study addresses these gaps by employing the probit model and the endogenous switching regression model to determine the drivers of adoption of CSA practices and the average and heterogenous welfare impact of adoption, including the gender differentiated impacts, using data from 1,809 smallholder farmers from diverse agroecological zones across 22 counties in Kenya. The results revealed that access to agricultural information, input subsidies, loans and credit and being a female headed household increases likelihood of adoption of CSA practices. Employment, access to off-farm income, higher household size and membership in local organizations reduces the likelihood of adoption of CSA practices. Further, the study revealed that adoption of CSA practices improves household welfare as measured by per capita monthly expenditure and savings, but the impact is significantly higher among female headed households compared to male headed households that adopted CSA practices. The study also found that non-adopters of CSA practices would be better off adopting CSA practices.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceCGIARen
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitionersen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.available2025-01-27en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOkumu B. Radeny M. Cramer L. 2025 . Welfare effects and gender dimensions of adoption of climate smart agriculture practices: Evidence from Kenyan small-scale farmers. World Development Sustainability. Volume 6. p.100204.en
dcterms.issued2025-01-26en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.subjectclimate smart agricultureen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectvariabilityen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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