Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania

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cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationBioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationSokoine University of Agricultureen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.countryTanzania
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2TZ
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.creator.identifierHaki Pamuk: 0000-0003-2454-1058
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-FP2_CSAScaling
cg.number361en
cg.placeWageningen, The Netherlandsen
cg.subject.ccafsCLIMATE-SMART TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICESen
dc.contributor.authorPamuk, Hakien
dc.contributor.authorAsseldonk, Marcel vanen
dc.contributor.authorWattel, Coren
dc.contributor.authorKaranja Ng'ang'a, Stanleyen
dc.contributor.authorHella, Joseph Philipen
dc.contributor.authorRuben, Ruerden
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-30T19:21:27Zen
dc.date.available2021-07-30T19:21:27Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/114490
dc.titleFarmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzaniaen
dcterms.abstractWe use quasi-experimental data collected in Iringa Tanzania to investigate the impact of a community based approach to promote the adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) practices. Based on two community-based organizations, Farmer Field Business Schools (FFBS) and Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), this approach combines interventions on farmer training, access to microfinance, and women’s empowerment in agriculture to introduce and enhance the adoption of the practices. We find a positive effect of the interventions on the adoption rates of CSA practices, including mulching, manure composting, crop rotation and rhizobium inoculation, and soybean production. This effect was more pronounced for farmers that participated in the trainings provided by the FFBSs and members of VSLAs. Farming households scoring high in terms of women’s empowerment are also more likely to adopt the introduced practices when compared to those scoring low. We also find that increased soybean production results in increased soybean sales and consumption, showing the contribution of the interventions to the incomes and nutrition levels of the farmers. These results show that FFBS and VSLA serve as promising community based platforms to introduce interventions on farmers training, microfinance, women’s empowerment to upscale the adoption of CSA practices.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationPamuk H, van Asseldonk M, Wattel C, Ng’ang’a SK, Hella JP, Ruerd R. 2021. Farmer Field Business Schools and Village Savings and Loan Associations for promoting climate-smart agriculture practices: Evidence from rural Tanzania. CCAFS Working Paper no. 361. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).en
dcterms.extent55 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfWorking Paperen
dcterms.issued2021-07-30
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-4.0
dcterms.publisherCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectvillagesen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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