Five lessons for avoiding failure when scaling in conservation

T Pienkowski, A Jagadish, W Battista… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Many attempts to scale conservation actions have failed to deliver their intended benefits,
caused unintended harm or later been abandoned, hampering efforts to bend the curve on …

The adoption of conservation agriculture by smallholder farmers in southern Africa: A sco** review of barriers and enablers

M Lee, J Gambiza - Journal of Rural Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
The Anthropocene has brought with it many challenges, the primary of which are climate
change and food security. The growing global population increasingly demands more from a …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation agriculture and climate resilience

JD Michler, K Baylis, M Arends-Kuenning… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Agricultural productivity growth is vital for economic and food security outcomes which are
threatened by climate change. In response, governments and development agencies are …

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 …

Unpacking the behavioral intentions of 'emergent farmers' towards mechanized conservation agriculture in Zambia

G Omulo, T Daum, K Köller, R Birner - Land use policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Conservation Agriculture (CA) continues to gain relevance among small and medium-scale
farmers in African countries, including Zambia, in response to food insecurity and the …

Why do smallholder farmers dis‐adopt conservation agriculture? Insights from Malawi

E Chinseu, A Dougill, L Stringer - Land Degradation & …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
International donors and advisory bodies, governments, and nongovernmental
organisations are actively promoting conservation agriculture (CA) to improve agricultural …

The role of factors affecting the adoption of environmentally friendly farming practices: can geographical context and time explain the differences emerging from …

D Mozzato, P Gatto, E Defrancesco, L Bortolini, F Pirotti… - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Environmentally Friendly Farming Practices (EFFPs) are tools aimed at providing ecosystem
services or mitigating the environmental impacts of intensive agriculture. A large literature …

Modelling adoption intensity of improved soybean production technologies in Ghana-a Generalized Poisson approach

A Mahama, JA Awuni, FN Mabe, SB Azumah - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Soybean is an important cash crop especially for farmers in the north of Ghana. However,
cultivation of the commodity is dominated by smallholders equipped with traditional tools …

Negative evaluation of conservation agriculture: perspectives from African smallholder farmers

B Brown, I Nuberg, R Llewellyn - International Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Despite more than three decades of promotion, conservation agriculture (CA) has not been
widely adopted by smallholder farmer in sub-Saharan Africa. This low rate of adoption …

Strengthening Conservation Agriculture innovation systems in sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons from a stakeholder analysis

EL Chinseu, AJ Dougill, LC Stringer - International Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Complexity of African agrarian systems necessitates that agricultural research and
development transition to agricultural innovation system [AIS] approaches. While AIS …