Policy incentives for smallholder adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices

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M. van Asseldonk, E. Girvetz, H. Pamuk, C. Wattel, R. Ruben
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There is a large and growing literature on the potential use of policy instruments for stimulating the adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) practices amongst smallholders. The objective of this article is to review and understand how the array of potential policy incentives can serve as mechanisms for enhancing adoption and upscaling of potential CSA practices by small-scale farmers in low-income countries. The review follows a matrix approach capturing where specific CSA practices (rows) are supported by typical policy instruments (columns) for enhancing widespread adoption. We first identify six key CSA practices, namely water management, soil and nutrient management, crop tolerance to stress, agroforestry and intercropping, crop rotation and mixed systems, and pest and disease management. Then we discuss the impact of those typical policy instruments, namely market prices, taxes and subsidies, land rights, rural finance, training and information, and certification and labeling. The review finds that most studies on this subject have a rather narrow focus on functional properties of a specific policy instrument and a particular CSA practice, thereby ignoring substitution, complementary or conditional effects between policy measures and CSA practices. Consequently, previous studies identify few incentives, particularly effective on their own. Wider perspectives on impact pathways point to the importance of sequencing and scaling for enhancing farmers' CSA adoption. We therefore advocate for more integrated approaches that also consider indirect effects of policy instruments on CSA adoption and pursue their systematic anchoring through successful policies that enhance widespread adoption.
鼓励小农采用气候智能型农业做法的政策激励措施
关于鼓励小农户采用气候智能农业(CSA)做法的政策工具的潜在用途,有大量且不断增长的文献。本文的目的是审查和了解一系列潜在的政策激励措施如何成为低收入国家小规模农民采用和推广潜在CSA做法的机制。审查遵循矩阵方法,捕捉特定CSA实践(行)得到典型政策工具(列)支持的地方,以促进广泛采用。我们首先确定了六个关键的CSA实践,即水管理、土壤和营养管理、作物抗逆性、农林和间作、作物轮作和混合系统以及病虫害管理。然后,我们讨论了这些典型政策工具的影响,即市场价格、税收和补贴、土地权、农村金融、培训和信息以及认证和标签。审查发现,大多数关于这一主题的研究都相当狭隘地关注特定政策工具和特定CSA实践的功能特性,从而忽视了政策措施和CSA实践之间的替代、补充或条件效应。因此,以前的研究发现很少有激励措施,特别是单独有效的激励措施。对影响途径的更广泛观点表明,排序和扩展对提高农民CSA采用率的重要性。因此,我们主张采取更加综合的方法,同时考虑到政策文书对CSA采用的间接影响,并通过促进广泛采用的成功政策来寻求其系统锚定。
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Frontiers in Political Science
Frontiers in Political Science Social Sciences-Political Science and International Relations
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