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_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationTaita Taveta Universityen_US
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen_US
cg.contributor.crpLivestocken_US
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken_US
cg.coverage.countryKenyaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KEen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierMaren Radeny: 0000-0001-6470-8372en_US
cg.creator.identifierElizaphan Rao: 0000-0002-4530-4062en_US
cg.creator.identifierMaurice Ogada: 0000-0003-1512-6370en_US
cg.creator.identifierJohn Walker Recha: 0000-0002-1146-7197en_US
cg.creator.identifierDawit Solomon: 0000-0002-6839-6801en_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01307-7en_US
cg.issn1876-4517en_US
cg.issue6en_US
cg.journalFood Securityen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systemsen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaClimate adaptation and mitigationen_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren_US
cg.subject.sdgSDG 13 - Climate actionen_US
cg.volume14en_US
dc.contributor.authorRadeny, Maren A.O.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRao, E.J.O.en_US
dc.contributor.authorOgada, Maurice Jumaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRecha, John W.M.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSolomon, Dawiten_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T13:16:22Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-07-25T13:16:22Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/120287en_US
dc.titleImpacts of climate-smart crop varieties and livestock breeds on the food security of smallholder farmers in Kenyaen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceScientistsen_US
dcterms.available2022-07-23en_US
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_US
dcterms.extentp. 1511-1535en_US
dcterms.issued2022-12en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherSpringeren_US
dcterms.subjectclimate-smart agricultureen_US
dcterms.subjecthousehold food securityen_US
dcterms.subjectsmallholders farmersen_US
dcterms.subjectlivestocken_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectfood securityen_US
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen_US

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