A review of climate-smart agriculture research and applications in Africa

PM Barasa, CM Botai, JO Botai, T Mabhaudhi - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Funders and governments are promoting climate-smart agriculture (CSA) as key to
agricultural adaptation under climate change in Africa. However, with its progressions still at …

Adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices among smallholder farmers in Western Kenya: do socioeconomic, institutional, and biophysical factors matter?

CM Musafiri, M Kiboi, J Macharia, OK Ng'etich… - Heliyon, 2022 - cell.com
Rigorous efforts should be channeled to the current low adoption of climate-smart
agricultural practices (CSAPs) in sub-Saharan African countries to improve food production …

[HTML][HTML] Determinants of farmers' perceptions of climate variability, mitigation, and adaptation strategies in the central highlands of Kenya

FS Mairura, CM Musafiri, MN Kiboi, JM Macharia… - Weather and Climate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate variability in recent decades has intensified in the SSA region, which makes it
imperative to explore adequate adaptation and mitigation strategies to offset its current and …

[HTML][HTML] Smallholders' adaptation to climate change in Western Kenya: Considering socioeconomic, institutional and biophysical determinants

CM Musafiri, M Kiboi, J Macharia, OK Ng'etich… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change has stimulated detrimental threats to the global agricultural ecosystems. The
study investigated i) the climate change perceptions, drivers, effects, and barriers, and ii) …

Analysis of smallholders' livelihood vulnerability to drought across agroecology and farm typology in the upper awash sub-basin, Ethiopia

H Maru, A Haileslassie, T Zeleke, B Esayas - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Assessing the magnitude of smallholder farmers' livelihood vulnerability to drought is an
initial step in identifying the causal factors and proposing interventions that mitigate the …

Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Smallholders' Cropping Systems in Sub‐Saharan Africa

SE Lemarpe, CM Musafiri, JM Macharia… - Advances in …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Increased concentration of atmospheric nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas
(GHG), is of great concern due to its impact on ozone layer depletion leading to climate …

[HTML][HTML] Promoting climate change mitigation in agriculture: do we need to account for farm family life-cycle?

RJF Burton, PP Otte - Journal of Rural Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
Family farms go through cyclical stages of development and contraction as a result of the
overlapping of business goals and generational changes. This 'farm family life-cycle'results …

A proposed typology of farming systems for assessing sustainable livelihood development pathways in the Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan

A Azarov, RC Sidle, D Darr, V Verner, Z Polesny - Land, 2024 - mdpi.com
In Kyrgyzstan, most farming systems focus on animal husbandry, which depends on
mixtures of crops and pastures around settlements and higher-elevation summer pastures …

Does the adoption of minimum tillage improve sorghum yield among smallholders in Kenya? A counterfactual analysis

CM Musafiri, M Kiboi, J Macharia, OK Ng'etich… - Soil and Tillage …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change is a major drawback to food security in most developing countries.
Promoting minimum tillage and climate-smart crops is essential in mitigating and adapting to …

Farm typology for targeting extension interventions among smallholders in tribal villages in Jharkhand state of India

A Sinha, D Basu, P Priyadarshi, A Ghosh… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The highly heterogeneous and complex farm holdings operated by the smallholders in
developing countries are often deprived of optimum production and profitability. The farming …