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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Agron.
Sec. Climate-Smart Agronomy
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fagro.2025.1552720
Factors Driving Climate-Smart Agriculture Adoption: A Study of Smallholder Farmers in Senegal's Koumpentum Region
Provisionally accepted
Taiwo Aderonke Ewulo 1*
Folorunso Matthew Akinseye 2
Niaba Teme 3 Samuel O Agele 4
Shalander Kumar 5
Nouroudine Yessoufou 6- 1 West Africa Science Service centre on Climate Change and Adapted land use (WASCAL), Bamako, Mali, Bamako, Mali
- 2 International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics(ICRISAT),Dakar, Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
- 3 Institut de l’Economie Rurale (IER), Bamako, Mali., Bamako, Mali
- 4 Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo, Nigeria
- 5 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Patancheru, Telangana, India
- 6 foresight solution Hub, Dakar, Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
Climate change significantly threatens agriculture and food systems in developing countries, especially in Senegal, where agriculture is vital for livelihoods and economic advancement. A study investigated the factors influencing the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) innovations among smallholder farmers in Senegal's Koumpentum region. Through comprehensive research and multistage random sampling, 270 smallholder farmers were interviewed using structured questionnaires. The results indicated that 56.3% of the farmers have adopted CSA practices. Household size, perceived climate change, and access to climate advisory information positively influenced 70.4% of farmers to adopt crop rotation. Additionally, the farmer's experience (in years) and perception of climate change influenced the adoption of conservation tillage. The study highlights how smallholder-specific characteristics and external influences interact to determine CSA adoption. Moreover, it underscores the need for targeted interventions to promote CSA practices, emphasising the importance of farmer education, access to climate advisory services, and capacity building. Based on our findings, the policy recommendations include aligning CSA innovations with smallholder preferences and local conditions to enhance adoption rates and strengthen climate resilience in agricultural systems. Policymakers should integrate CSA into Senegalese agricultural policy and develop innovative financing mechanisms to encourage the adoption of adaptation technologies tailored to local contexts to address current and future climate risks.
Keywords: CSA Adoption1, CSA driving factor2, Correlated innovation3, Climate Change4, barriers5
Received: 29 Dec 2024; Accepted: 20 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ewulo, Akinseye, Teme, Agele, Kumar and Yessoufou. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Taiwo Aderonke Ewulo, West Africa Science Service centre on Climate Change and Adapted land use (WASCAL), Bamako, Mali, Bamako, Mali
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