Improving smallholder farmers’ access to and utilization of climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa through social networks: a systematic review

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cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Ghanaen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen_US
cg.contributor.donorPartnership for skills in Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology – Regional Scholarship and Innovation Funden_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierWilliam Quarmine: 0000-0002-0780-0567en_US
cg.creator.identifierCharity Osei-Amponsah: 0000-0002-0135-0489en_US
cg.creator.identifierAndrew Emmanuel Okem: 0000-0001-5449-7639en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100528en_US
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH053481en_US
cg.isijournalISI Journalen_US
cg.issn2405-8807en_US
cg.journalClimate Servicesen_US
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen_US
cg.volume37en_US
dc.contributor.authorAppiah, Collins E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorQuarmine, Williamen_US
dc.contributor.authorOsei-Amponsah, Charityen_US
dc.contributor.authorOkem, Andrew E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSarpong, D. B.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-31T19:54:34Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-31T19:54:34Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/172703en_US
dc.titleImproving smallholder farmers’ access to and utilization of climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa through social networks: a systematic reviewen_US
dcterms.abstractThe timely availability, access to, and utilisation of actionable climate information services (CIS) serve as an effective mechanism to address the impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scholarly work from diverse contexts reveals that farmers’ social networks can be leveraged to promote access to CIS to mitigate climate risk. However, there is no synthesised information on the different insights that comprehensively demonstrate how social networks improve access to and utilisation of CIS among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper employed a systematic literature review methodology to fill this knowledge gap. A stringent inclusion criterion was used to select 32 relevant peer-reviewed papers from an initial pool of 648 for analysis. Our study found farmers’ social networks to effectively promote CIS access and utilisation among smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa. This was mainly as a result of the use of relatable local languages and the opportunity it provided for direct interaction during information flow. Smallholder farmers in big networks with stronger linkages, higher levels of participation, and a greater degree of trust, were identified to be more likely to utilise CIS to improve their livelihoods. Such farmers tend to have higher technical efficiency, productivity, and incomes. To harness social networks to scale up CIS access and utilisation, innovative platforms that can enhance social networking among farmers must be promoted and strengthened by agricultural devel opment stakeholders.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.available2024-11-22en_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationAppiah, Collins E.; Quarmine, William; Osei-Amponsah, Charity; Okem, Andrew E.; Sarpong, D. B. 2025. Improving smallholder farmers’ access to and utilization of climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa through social networks: a systematic review. Climate Services, 37:100528. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100528]en_US
dcterms.extent100528.en_US
dcterms.issued2025-01en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen_US
dcterms.subjectfarmersen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate servicesen_US
dcterms.subjectsocial networksen_US
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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