Building Public Will for Climate-Smart Agriculture in Uganda: Prescriptions for Industry and Policy

Q3 Business, Management and Accounting

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI:10.1515/jafio-2021-0012

Eric D. Raile, L. Young, J. Kirinya, J. Bonabana-Wabbi, Amber N. W. Raile

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Abstract The global policy community has largely converged on climate-smart agriculture as a solution to various problems driven by climate change, but mass adoption of the crucial innovations presents challenges – particularly in the developing world. Widespread, meaningful, and rapid adoption of climate-smart agriculture will require an appropriate enabling environment. This study uses the political will and public will approach to identify the obstacles and opportunities for upscaling of climate-smart agriculture innovations. In 2015 and 2018, two rounds of semi-structured stakeholder and expert interviews conducted by researchers in Uganda identified four relevant obstacle categories: agricultural extension; communication infrastructure; basic and agricultural infrastructure; and other incentives and disincentives. These categories are related to the five definitional components of public will to reveal pathways for enabling social change. Importantly, both infrastructure and appropriate incentives are necessary for diffusion and then continued use of climate-smart agriculture innovations, often in interrelated ways. The study concludes with a detailed discussion of the implications for industry, government, and donors.

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摘要全球政策界在很大程度上已经将气候智能农业作为气候变化引发的各种问题的解决方案，但关键创新的大规模采用带来了挑战，尤其是在发展中国家。广泛、有意义和快速采用气候智能农业将需要一个适当的有利环境。这项研究使用政治意愿和公众意愿的方法来确定气候智能农业创新升级的障碍和机会。2015年和2018年，乌干达研究人员进行了两轮半结构化的利益相关者和专家访谈，确定了四类相关障碍：农业推广；通信基础设施；基础设施和农业基础设施；以及其他激励和抑制措施。这些类别与揭示实现社会变革途径的公共意愿的五个定义组成部分有关。重要的是，基础设施和适当的激励措施对于推广和继续使用气候智能型农业创新是必要的，通常是以相互关联的方式。该研究最后详细讨论了对行业、政府和捐助者的影响。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization (JAFIO) is a unique forum for empirical and theoretical research in industrial organization with a special focus on agricultural and food industries worldwide. As concentration, industrialization, and globalization continue to reshape horizontal and vertical relationships within the food supply chain, agricultural economists are revising both their views of traditional markets as well as their tools of analysis. At the core of this revision are strategic interactions between principals and agents, strategic interdependence between rival firms, and strategic trade policy between competing nations, all in a setting plagued by incomplete and/or imperfect information structures. Add to that biotechnology, electronic commerce, as well as the shift in focus from raw agricultural commodities to branded products, and the conclusion is that a "new" agricultural economics is needed for an increasingly complex "new" agriculture.