Gender and conservation agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

FM Wekesah, EN Mutua… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Conservation agriculture (CA) involves the practice of concurrent minimum tillage,
permanent soil cover using crop residue, and crop rotation. Evidence indicates that CA …

Adoption and welfare impacts of multiple agricultural technologies: evidence from eastern Zambia

MG Khonje, J Manda, P Mkandawire… - Agricultural …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Using plot level panel data and multinomial endogenous switching regression, this article
analyzes the adoption and welfare impacts of multiple agricultural technologies in eastern …

Are local development plans mainstreaming climate-smart agriculture? A mixed-content analysis of medium-term development plans in semi-arid Ghana

SK Diko, SA Okyere, S Opoku Mensah… - Socio-Ecological …, 2021 - Springer
In Africa, climate change impacts including, but not limited to, erratic rainfall and prolonged
droughts are already affecting farmers' productivity and disrupting households' livelihoods …

Adoption of climate‐smart practices and its impact on farm performance and risk exposure among smallholder farmers in Ghana

G Issahaku, A Abdulai - Australian Journal of Agricultural and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Increased climate variability during the last four decades has made the agricultural
environment in many developing countries more uncertain, resulting in increasing exposure …

Agroforestry as a pathway to agricultural yield impacts in climate-smart agriculture investments: Evidence from southern Malawi

FO Amadu, DC Miller, PE McNamara - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
Agroforestry is widely promoted for delivering not only the main food security objective of
climate-smart agriculture (CSA) but also increasing resilience and mitigating climate …

Differential impacts of conservation agriculture technology options on household income in Sub-Saharan Africa

JA Tambo, J Mockshell - Ecological Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture (CA), which consists of minimum soil disturbance, crop residue
retention and crop rotation, is claimed to generate a number of agronomic, economic and …

Technical efficiency of smallholder maize production in Zambia: a stochastic meta-frontier approach

JN Ng'ombe - Agrekon, 2017 - journals.co.za
We determine and compare technical efficiency (TE), technology gap ratios (TGRs) and
meta-frontier technical efficiency (MTEs) of maize production between regions using …

Analysis of adoption of conservation agriculture practices in southern Africa: mixed-methods approach

AH Tufa, JS Kanyamuka, A Alene, H Ngoma… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In southern Africa, conservation agriculture (CA) has been promoted to address low
agricultural productivity, food insecurity, and land degradation. However, despite significant …

Impact of improved rice varieties on household food security in Northern Ghana: A doubly robust analysis

W Lu, KN Addai, JN Ng'ombe - Journal of International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This study determines the impact of the adoption of improved rice varieties on household
food security using farm‐level data from 900 households in Northern Ghana. We employed …

Does crop diversification involve a trade-off between technical efficiency and income stability for rural farmers? Evidence from Zambia

A Mzyece, JN Ng'ombe - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Crop diversification is a climate-smart agricultural technique which helps to improve
resilience for farmers in the face of volatile weather due to climate change. Previous …