Impacts of climate-smart crop varieties and livestock breeds on the food security of smallholder farmers in Kenya

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationTaita Taveta Universityen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierMaren Radeny: 0000-0001-6470-8372en
cg.creator.identifierElizaphan Rao: 0000-0002-4530-4062en
cg.creator.identifierMaurice Ogada: 0000-0003-1512-6370en
cg.creator.identifierJohn Walker Recha: 0000-0002-1146-7197en
cg.creator.identifierDawit Solomon: 0000-0002-6839-6801en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01307-7en
cg.issn1876-4517en
cg.issue6en
cg.journalFood Securityen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigation
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen
cg.volume14en
dc.contributor.authorRadeny, Maren A.O.en
dc.contributor.authorRao, E.J.O.en
dc.contributor.authorOgada, Maurice Jumaen
dc.contributor.authorRecha, John W.M.en
dc.contributor.authorSolomon, Dawiten
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T13:16:22Zen
dc.date.available2022-07-25T13:16:22Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/120287
dc.titleImpacts of climate-smart crop varieties and livestock breeds on the food security of smallholder farmers in Kenyaen
dcterms.abstractThis paper analyses the impact of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies on household dietary diversity and food insufciency as indicators of food and nutrition security in Kenya. Using a combination of Propensity Score Matching and endogenous treatment efect approaches, we found that adoption of stress-tolerant varieties of several crops (such as bean, pigeon pea, cowpea, maize and sorghum) improved household dietary diversity score by 40% and reduced food insufciency by 75%. Adoption of improved and resilient livestock breeds (including Red Maasai sheep and Galla goats) improved household dietary diversity by 38% while reducing household food insufciency by 90%. We also found that stress-tolerant crop varieties were more efective in improving food security outcomes among households with large landholdings and with more educated and younger to middle-age heads. Efects of resilient livestock breeds on household food security were much stronger for households with large landholdings and with young and/or much older heads that have low levels of education. Given the large, demonstrated benefts from the use of the CSA technologies, policies and programs aimed at their promotion should apply appropriate targeting to ensure wider uptake of the technologies and maximum returns on investment.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2022-07-23en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationRadeny M, Rao E, Ogada M, Recha J, Solomon D. 2022. Impacts of climate-smart crop varieties and livestock breeds on the food security of smallholder farmers in Kenya. Food Security 1-25.en
dcterms.extentp. 1511-1535en
dcterms.issued2022-12en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.subjectclimate-smart agricultureen
dcterms.subjecthousehold food securityen
dcterms.subjectsmallholders farmersen
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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