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Farmers’ Behaviour Towards Adoption of Climate-Smart Innovations and its Impacts on Farm Production in Buea, Southwest Region, Cameroon
Kizito Sone Eboh1
,
Hiojung Shin2*
1Agroecology Program Assistant, Natural Resource Management, Support Service for Local Development Initiative, BP 11955, Yaounde-Cameroon
2Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Korea
*Corresponding Author
31 March 2023. pp. 60-73
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Abstract

Climate change has effects that manifest via changes in temperature, rainfall pattern, and its predictability. These changes have deleterious effects on farmers via yield reduction. To this end, several approaches have been employed to overcome problems with climate change. Adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is one of the most resilient solutions. It is among the most promising solutions to climate change problems. This study evaluates the factors that influence farmers’ adoption of CSA and the consequent impact of adoption on farm production. The multinomial logit model and the Heckman two-step model were used to identify CSA adoption determinants and to evaluate CSA adoption effect on yield, respectively, using 150 farms. Access to extension service, cooperative membership, and land size per family member are the major drivers of CSA adoption. Land size and credit facility source are the major factors affecting farm crop yield. The inverse mills ratio while positive, was not statistically significant, but suggests that adoption of CSA by farmers did not influence farm output.

Keywords
Climate change
Climate-smart agriculture
Heckman two-step model
Inverse mills ratio
Multinomial logit model
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  • Publisher :Agriculture and Life Sciences Research Institute, Kangwon National University
  • Publisher(Ko) :None
  • Journal Title :Journal of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences
  • Volume : 35
  • No :1
  • Pages :60-73
  • Received Date : 2023-01-09
  • Revised Date : 2023-03-07
  • Accepted Date : 2023-03-07
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.22698/jales.20230005
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