Adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices and their impact on farm output in Western Kenya

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierStanley Karanja Ng'ang'a: 0000-0002-6166-7920
cg.creator.identifierEvan Girvetz: 0000-0002-1062-9764
cg.placeKampala, UGen
cg.subject.ciatSOIL INFORMATIONen
dc.contributor.authorKaranja Ng'ang'a, Stanleyen
dc.contributor.authorAnyango Jalang'o, Dorcasen
dc.contributor.authorGirvetz, Evan Hartunianen
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-12T15:48:47Zen
dc.date.available2019-11-12T15:48:47Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/105710
dc.titleAdoption of soil carbon enhancing practices and their impact on farm output in Western Kenyaen
dcterms.abstractAdoption of soil carbon practices has the capability of increasing yield, thus improving income and food availability. This paper assessed the adoption of agricultural practices that enhance soil carbon. Data from 334 households were collected in the rural areas of Western Kenya using a multistage sampling technique. The multivariate probit model and propensity score matching method were used to analyze the determinants of adoption of soil carbon practices and the impact on output, respectively. Results show that agroforestry, intercropping, terracing, and the use of inorganic fertilizer are the dominant soil carbon practices, which are discretely and diversely affected by socioeconomic, farm-level, institutional, and biophysical characteristics. However, the adoption of maize-bean intercropping alone has a great impact on maize production and increases output by approximately 240 kilograms. The findings from this study suggest that the adoption capacity of farming households can be accelerated by independently making interventions targeting individual practices rather than compounding the practices. Consequently, emphasis should target interventions that encourage the adoption of intercropping since its economic impact has been evidently underlined.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationNg’ang’a SK; Jalang’o DA; Girvetz E. 2019. Adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices and their impact on farm output in Western Kenya. CIAT Publication No. 485. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Kampala, Uganda. 29 p.en
dcterms.extent29 p.en
dcterms.issued2019-11
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
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dcterms.subjectagroforestryen
dcterms.subjectfertilizeren
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectintercroppingen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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