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Communicating climate change adaptation strategies: climate-smart agriculture information dissemination pathways among smallholder potato farmers in Gilgil Sub-County, Kenya

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dc.contributor.author Waaswa, Andrew
dc.contributor.author Nkurumwa, Agnes Oywaya
dc.contributor.author Kibe, Anthony Mwangi
dc.contributor.author Kipkemoi, Ng'eno Joel
dc.date.issued 2021-08
dc.date.accessioned 2021-10-19T12:47:44Z
dc.date.available 2021-10-19T12:47:44Z
dc.identifier.uri http://41.89.96.81:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/2811
dc.description.abstract Proven and sustainable practices like climate-smart agricultural practices (CSAPs) need to be prioritized and promoted for uptake especially by the farmers to achieve sustainable development. These are capable of contributing to the realization of sustainable development goals through averting food and nutritional insecurity, increasing and sustaining yields that translate into increased incomes and later reduced poverty. This is because CSAPs enable farmers to adapt and mitigate climate change effects. However, due to inappropriate communication of CSAPs to the farmers, to date, some farmers still see no escape route from the frightening effects of climate change and they are currently adopting a rather fatalistic attitude. This study investigated the information dissemination pathways used by different categories of smallholder potato farmers for and practice of CSAPs. It found a difference between information sources and practice of CSAPs at a 5% level of significance (χ2 ¼ 100.12139, df ¼ 2, p < 0.05, Cramer's V ¼ 1.0), and a difference in the use of the three information dissemination pathways between men and women at a 5% level of significance (χ2 ¼ 6.05949, df ¼ 2, p < 0.05, Cramer's V ¼ 0.17406). The three information dissemination pathways included media, neighbors and friends, and extension officers. Generally, farmers were aware and practiced the CSAPs investigated in this study except for irrigation with high awareness yet with low uptake percentage and potato seedlings and minitubers both with low awareness and practice respectively. This study recommended mainstreaming of CSAPs information en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier en_US
dc.subject Climate change Climate-smart agriculture Sustainable development Information dissemination pathways Gender Adoption Potato production Smallholder farmers Kenya en_US
dc.title Communicating climate change adaptation strategies: climate-smart agriculture information dissemination pathways among smallholder potato farmers in Gilgil Sub-County, Kenya en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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