Distributional impact of climate-smart villages on access to savings and credit and adoption of improved climate-smart agricultural practices in the Nyando Basin, Kenya

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 : 2024-03-22 DOI:10.1007/s11027-024-10123-7

Marcel van Asseldonk, Remco Oostendorp, John Recha, John Gathiaka, Richard Mulwa, Maren Radeny, Cor Wattel, Lia van Wesenbeeck

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Adoption of improved livestock breeds requires, as with other climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices, upfront investments, which might be a significant barrier for smallholders. For this reason, the climate-smart village (CSV) approach not only includes CSA interventions, but also interventions to improve access to savings and credit among smallholders by means of a community-based approach. In this paper we study smallholders in CSVs in Kenya who were encouraged, among others, to adopt improved livestock breeds for crossbreeding with indigenous breeds to improve their resilience to climate change and variability. The farmers were also encouraged to become part of savings and credit groups to improve smallholder access to finance. The objective of this paper is thus to determine the (distributional) impact of CSVs on access to savings and credit and the adoption of improved CSA practices. Due to the as good as random selection of CSVs, we are able to estimate the treatment effects on the treated for the smallholders who decided to participate in the CSA intervention by means of a linear probability model. The analysis is based on a balanced panel of 118 farm households interviewed in 2017, 2019, and 2020. The main findings of this study are that the CSV intervention increased the adoption of improved livestock breeds. It also stimulated the membership of savings and credit groups which in turn stimulated the adoption of improved livestock breeds. These findings point to the importance of community-based savings and loan initiatives to mobilize finance among farmers enabling them to invest in CSA practices. Also, the introduction of improved breeds in CSVs has benefited especially the larger livestock owners. However, the availability of credit is found to have mitigated the concentration of improved livestock ownership since the diffusion of improved livestock in CSVs was somewhat more equitable than the (spontaneous) spill-over diffusion in the non-CSVs (reducing the Gini by 0.04).

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气候智能型村庄对肯尼亚尼扬多盆地获得储蓄和信贷以及采用改进的气候智能型农业做法的分布影响

与其他气候智能型农业（CSA）做法一样，采用改良牲畜品种也需要前期投资，这对小农户来说可能是一个重大障碍。因此，气候智能型村庄（CSV）方法不仅包括 CSA 干预措施，还包括通过基于社区的方法改善小农户获得储蓄和信贷的干预措施。在本文中，我们研究了肯尼亚 CSV 中的小农户，除其他外，我们鼓励他们采用改良牲畜品种与本地品种杂交，以提高对气候变化和多变性的适应能力。此外，还鼓励农民加入储蓄和信贷小组，以改善小农获得资金的渠道。因此，本文的目的是确定 CSV 对获得储蓄和信贷以及采用改进的 CSA 实践的（分配）影响。由于 CSV 的选择具有良好的随机性，我们能够通过线性概率模型估算出决定参与 CSA 干预的小农的治疗效果。分析基于 2017 年、2019 年和 2020 年访谈的 118 个农户的平衡面板。本研究的主要发现是，CSV 干预措施提高了改良牲畜品种的采用率。它还刺激了储蓄和信贷小组成员的加入，这反过来又刺激了改良牲畜品种的采用。这些研究结果表明，以社区为基础的储蓄和贷款措施对于调动农民的资金，使他们能够投资于 CSA 实践非常重要。此外，在 CSV 中引进改良品种也使大牲畜所有者受益匪浅。不过，由于改良牲畜在 CSV 的传播比在非 CSV 的（自发）外溢传播更公平（基尼系数降低了 0.04），因此信贷的可获得性减轻了改良牲畜所有权的集中程度。

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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.