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Use of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices and Smallholder Farmer Market Participation in Central Malawi

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dc.creator Matita, Mirriam
dc.creator Wadonda Chirwa, Ephraim
dc.creator Zingwe, David
dc.creator Mazalale, Jacob
dc.date 2022-02-02T14:01:27Z
dc.date 2022-02-02T14:01:27Z
dc.date 2022-02-01
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:52:14Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:52:14Z
dc.identifier Matita, M., Chirwa, E.W., Zingwe, D. and Mazalale, J. (2022) Use of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices and Smallholder Farmer Market Participation in Central Malawi. APRA Working Paper 81. Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium, DOI: 10.19088/APRA.2022.003
dc.identifier 978-1-78118-910-8
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17112
dc.identifier Rural Futures
dc.identifier 10.19088/APRA.2022.003
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198904
dc.description In the past few decades, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has been promoted to improve food security and raise incomes as a strategy for sustainable agricultural development. The adoption rates among smallholder farmers, particularly in Africa, remain low and have varied in different contexts. We investigated the market participation spill over effects from the adoption of CSA practices in central Malawi. We tested the hypothesis that the extent of the use of CSA practices in the past 10 years can lead to production surpluses that enable smallholder farmers to participate in markets and thereby increase agricultural incomes. The findings suggest, among others, the need to intensify efforts to promote CSA adoption specifically over a longer period for benefits of the technologies to materialise. The adoption of CSA practices over time enhances crop market participation – an important aspect required for production sustainability as well as for transforming agriculture towards greater market orientation among smallholder farmers.
dc.language en
dc.publisher APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.subject Agriculture
dc.subject Climate Change
dc.subject Participation
dc.subject Rural Development
dc.subject Trade
dc.subject Work and Labour
dc.title Use of Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices and Smallholder Farmer Market Participation in Central Malawi
dc.type Series paper (non-IDS)
dc.coverage Malawi


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