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Climate Policy, 2022 Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an important discourse among national governments in Africa and international policy circles to increase food productivity, build smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change, and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.
Ayorinde Ogunyiola, Maaz Gardezi, S. Vij
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PLOS Climate, 2022 Climate-Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices are crucial in managing climatic shocks faced by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. However, evidence on the socio-psychological drivers of farmers’ adoption of CSA practices remains limited.
Jonathan Atta‐Aidoo +5 more
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Assessing Smallholder Farmer's Participation in the Wheat Value Chain in North-West Mt. Kenya
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Wheat is the second most important carbohydrate staple in Kenya and is produced by both smallholder and large-scale farmers. Smallholders are the majority, but produce <20% of the total national production.
Veronica Mwangi +4 more
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Sustainability, 2022 The agricultural sector contributes approximately 10–20% of the total anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. Consequently, climate change can negatively affect crop yields and livestock production thus threatening food security, especially in a ...
Thaddaeus Obaji Ariom +5 more
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Agriculture & Food Security, 2021 Climate change poses a threat to the sustainability of food production among small-scale rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa that are dependent on rain-fed agriculture.
Francis Atube +5 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 The main challenges facing smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are soil fertility decline and climate change, culminating in increased food insecurity.
Collins M. Musafiri +8 more
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Agriculture & Food Security, 2022 Agricultural production by smallholder farm households is a means of livelihood for many rural households in developing economies, including Africa. Commercializing smallholder farmers in the agricultural sector is an indispensable path to boost economic
Kusse Haile +2 more
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Operational challenges faced by smallholder farmers: a case of Ethekwini Metropolitan in South Africa [PDF]
Environmental Economics, 2016 The study is aimed at establishing the impact of access to capital, access to markets, access to information and access to technology on competitiveness of smallholder farmers on the market in Ethekwini Metropolitan in South Africa.
Joel Mutero +2 more
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Advancing the science and practice of ecological nutrient management for smallholder farmers
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 Soil degradation is widespread in smallholder agrarian communities across the globe where limited resource farmers struggle to overcome poverty and malnutrition.
L. Drinkwater, S. Snapp
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Metafrontier analysis of commercial and smallholder tomato production: A South African case
South African Journal of Science, 2018 South African agriculture is a dualist agricultural system with well-developed commercial farmers and resource-poor smallholder farmers. In an effort to address the dualist nature of agriculture, the South African government has developed a strategic ...
Jabulile Z. Gwebu, Nicolette Matthews
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