Old wine, new bottles? Investigating the differential adoption of 'climate-smart' agricultural practices in western Kenya
Old wine, new bottles? Investigating the differential adoption of 'climate-smart' agricultural practices in western Kenya
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10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.09.010
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发表时间：
2017-11-01
影响因子：
5.1
通讯作者：
Petursson, Jon Geir
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作者：
Cavanagh, Connor Joseph;Chemarum, Anthony Kibet;Petursson, Jon Geir
本研究评估了影响采用与世界银行资助的“气候智能型”农业项目相关的土地管理做法的因素：肯尼亚农业碳项目。通过对肯尼亚西部Bungoma县参与农民的混合方法研究，我们发现项目鼓励的做法总体采用率不高，平均为53.6%。然而，我们也发现，个别做法的采用率存在系统性差异。将我们的样本分解为三个阶层或“财富群体”，我们发现“非常贫穷”和“贫穷”群体的采用率（分别为42%和49%）相对于“不那么贫穷”的财富群体（73%）要低得多。在这些群体中，与畜牧业管理和虫害管理相关的做法系统性地较少采用（0- 45%），而更受欢迎的做法，如农林业和耕作管理，报告的采用率都在60%至80%之间。因此，我们认为，采取明显的“气候智能”农业实践的大规模的障碍可能越来越多的政治经济，而不仅仅是技术管理的性质。这反映了农民中最贫穷的阶层在努力谈判越来越多的外部强加的气候适应和减缓的必要性，以及作为社会经济单位的家庭的“简单再生产”或生存的必要性。因此，未来几代的“气候智能型”农业方案可能受益于将适应和减缓目标分开，以避免非洲农村地区最贫穷的参与家庭负担过重。(C)2017爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有
This study assesses factors influencing the adoption of land management practices associated with a World Bank-financed project on' climate-smart' agriculture: the Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project. Drawing upon mixed-methods research with participating farmers in Bungoma County, western Kenya, we find modest reported adoption rates overall for project-encouraged practices, amounting to 53.6 percent on average. However, we also find that there are systematic differences in the reported adoption rates of individual practices. Disaggregating our sample into three classes or 'wealth groups', we find that the 'very poor' and 'poor' groups exhibit substantially lower adoption rates (42 percent and 49 percent, respectively) relative to the 'less poor' wealth group (73 percent). Across these groups, practices related to livestock management and pest management are systematically less adopted (0-45 percent) than more popular practices such as agroforestry and tillage management, the reported adoption of which both range from 60 to 80 percent. Consequently, we suggest that barriers to the adoption of apparently 'climate smart' agricultural practices at scale may increasingly be political-economic rather than simply technical-managerial in nature. This reflects the poorest strata of farmers' struggles to negotiate the increasingly externally imposed imperatives of climate adaptation and mitigation with the necessity of 'simple reproduction' or survival of the household as a socioeconomic unit. Future generations of 'climate smart' agricultural programmes may thus benefit from disaggregating adaptation and mitigation objectives in order to avoid unduly burdening the poorest strata of participating households in rural African contexts. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.