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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Climate-Smart Food Systems
Volume 8 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1410094
This article is part of the Research Topic Transforming African Food Systems View all 5 articles

Intensifying Homestead Climate-Smart Agriculture and the Challenges to its Wider Adoption in Azuari Watershed, Northwest Ethiopia

Provisionally accepted
Ermias Debie Ermias Debie *
  • Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Facukty of Social Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir dar, Ethiopia

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    The adoption of climate-smart agriculture practices (CSAPs) at the plot level is a promising yet underutilized strategy in Ethiopia, where subsistence farming predominates. This study investigates the factors influencing the intensity of CSAPs on homesteads and identifies key barriers to their broader adoption. The findings reveal that slope gradient, extension contacts, farming experience, dependency ratio-induced labor, and livestock diversity significantly impact farmers' decisions to enhance CSAPs. Major obstacles include insecure land tenure, poor management of open grazing, labor-intensive practices, and limited access to agricultural inputs. These variables should be prioritized in agricultural extension policies to promote the widespread implementation of CSAPs.

    Keywords: Farmer decision, Determinants to intensified practices, Climate-smart agriculture, Constraints for wider adoption, Northwest Ethiopia

    Received: 31 Mar 2024; Accepted: 14 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Debie. 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: Ermias Debie, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Facukty of Social Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir dar, Ethiopia

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