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_US
cg.coverage.countryKenyaen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KEen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.creator.identifierStanley Karanja Ng'ang'a: 0000-0002-6166-7920en_US
cg.creator.identifierEvan Girvetz: 0000-0002-1062-9764en_US
cg.placeKampala, UGen_US
cg.subject.ciatSOIL INFORMATIONen_US
dc.contributor.authorKaranja Ng'ang'a, Stanleyen_US
dc.contributor.authorAnyango Jalang'o, Dorcasen_US
dc.contributor.authorGirvetz, Evan Hartunianen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-12T15:48:47Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-11-12T15:48:47Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/105710en_US
dc.titleAdoption of soil carbon enhancing practices and their impact on farm output in Western Kenyaen_US
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_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
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_US
dcterms.extent29 p.en_US
dcterms.issued2019-11en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectsoilen_US
dcterms.subjectagroforestryen_US
dcterms.subjectfertilizeren_US
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen_US
dcterms.subjectintercroppingen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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