‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa
| cg.authorship.types | Not CGIAR international institute | en |
| cg.contributor.affiliation | Tuscia University | en |
| cg.contributor.donor | European Union | en |
| cg.coverage.country | Malawi | |
| cg.coverage.country | South Africa | |
| cg.coverage.country | Tanzania | |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | MW | |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | ZA | |
| cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | TZ | |
| cg.coverage.region | Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Eastern Africa | |
| cg.coverage.region | Southern Africa | |
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | en |
| cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121900 | en |
| cg.isijournal | ISI Journal | en |
| cg.issn | 0959-6526 | en |
| cg.journal | Journal of Cleaner Production | en |
| cg.reviewStatus | Peer Review | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | CLIMATE CHANGE | en |
| cg.subject.ilri | RESEARCH | en |
| cg.volume | 270 | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Branca, G. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Perelli, Chiara | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-10T11:17:53Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-10T11:17:53Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110449 | |
| dc.title | ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa | en |
| dcterms.abstract | African smallholders should adopt climate-smart agriculture to make a sustainable transition towards cleaner, circular and more productive food systems. Farmers must play a key role in that process. However, the adoption and diffusion of climate-smart technologies have been slow. Here, a cross-sectional econometric analysis using primary data on sustainable farming practices in the cereal-legume farming systems of Ethiopia, Malawi, South Africa and Tanzania is applied to analyse the drivers and intensity of innovation adoption. Socio-economic barriers reduce adoption intensity among marginalised farmers, and proper incentives are needed to overcome them. Business links between technology-ready smallholders and small-to-medium enterprises must be created to enable the uptake and scaling-up of innovations and the development of industrial application models. Such results can support the design of evidence-based strategies for the sustainable transformation of production systems. While national climate policies already include climate-smart agriculture as an adaptation blueprint, policy makers need empirical evidence to support large-scale adoption. This research is an innovative contribution to that effort. It uses a unique household dataset where data is scarce; it considers the impact of smallholders’ conditioning factors on technology climate-smartness level; and it estimates the correlations among a wide range of practices, agro-ecologies and geographical contexts. | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.audience | Scientists | en |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Branca, G. and Chiara, P. 2020. ‘Clearing the air’: Common drivers of climate-smart smallholder food production in Eastern and Southern Africa. Journal of Cleaner Production 270: 121900. | en |
| dcterms.issued | 2020-10 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.license | CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 | |
| dcterms.publisher | Elsevier | en |
| dcterms.subject | smallholders | en |
| dcterms.subject | climate-smart agriculture | en |
| dcterms.subject | food production | en |
| dcterms.type | Journal Article |