Promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural technologies among maize farmers in Ghana: using digital advisory services

IF 2.5 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI:10.1007/s11027-024-10116-6

Bright O. Asante, Wanglin Ma, Stephen Prah, Omphile Temoso

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Although policy and advisory communities have promoted the use of digital advisory services (DAS) to stimulate technology adoption among smallholder farmers, little is known about whether DAS use encourages farmers to adopt climate-smart agricultural (CSA) technologies. This study addresses the gap by estimating data collected from 3197 maize-producing households in rural Ghana and considering three CSA technologies: row planting, zero tillage, and drought-tolerant seeds. A recursive bivariate probit model is utilized to mitigate selection bias issues. The results show that DAS use significantly increases the probabilities of adopting row planting, zero tillage, and drought-tolerant seeds by 12.4%, 4.2%, and 4.6%, respectively. Maize farmers’ decisions to use DAS are influenced by their age, gender, education, family size, asset value, distance to farm, perceived incidence of pest and disease, perceived drought stress, and membership in farmer-based organizations (FBO). Furthermore, the disaggregated analysis reveals that DAS use has a larger impact on the row planting adoption of female farmers than males.

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促进加纳玉米种植者采用气候智能型农业技术：利用数字咨询服务

尽管政策和咨询界一直在推广使用数字咨询服务（DAS）来激励小农采用技术，但人们对数字咨询服务的使用是否能鼓励农民采用气候智能型农业（CSA）技术却知之甚少。本研究通过估算从加纳农村地区 3197 个玉米生产家庭收集到的数据，并考虑到三种 CSA 技术：行种植、零耕作和耐旱种子，填补了这一空白。采用递归双变量概率模型来减轻选择偏差问题。结果表明，使用 DAS 可使采用行种植、零耕作和耐旱种子的概率分别大幅提高 12.4%、4.2% 和 4.6%。玉米种植农户使用 DAS 的决定受其年龄、性别、教育程度、家庭规模、资产价值、与农场的距离、感知的病虫害发生率、感知的干旱压力以及农民组织（FBO）成员资格的影响。此外，分类分析表明，使用 DAS 对女性农民采用行种植的影响大于男性农民。

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Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-

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期刊介绍： The Earth''s biosphere is being transformed by various anthropogenic activities. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change addresses a wide range of environment, economic and energy topics and timely issues including global climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition, eutrophication of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, species extinction and loss of biological diversity, deforestation and forest degradation, desertification, soil resource degradation, land-use change, sea level rise, destruction of coastal zones, depletion of fresh water and marine fisheries, loss of wetlands and riparian zones and hazardous waste management. Response options to mitigate these threats or to adapt to changing environs are needed to ensure a sustainable biosphere for all forms of life. To that end, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change provides a forum to encourage the conceptualization, critical examination and debate regarding response options. The aim of this journal is to provide a forum to review, analyze and stimulate the development, testing and implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies at regional, national and global scales. One of the primary goals of this journal is to contribute to real-time policy analysis and development as national and international policies and agreements are discussed and promulgated.