Smallholder farmers in East Africa need information and knowledge on appropriate climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices, technologies, and institutional innovations in order to effectively adapt to changing climatic conditions and cope with climate variability. This paper assesses farmer adopt...
Nyasimi, Mary
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Kimeli, Philip
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Sayula, George
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Kinyangi, James
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Mungai, Catherine
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[Adoption and Dissemination Pathways for Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies and Practices for Climate-Resilient Livelihoods in Lushoto, Northeast Tanzania]
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Adoption and Dissemination Pathways for Climate-Smart Agriculture Technologies and Practices for Climate-Resilient Livelihoods in Lushoto, Northeast Tanzania
This paper presents the initial data analyses of the CCAFS gender survey implemented in four sites in Africa. Using descriptive statistics we show gender differences in terms of perceptions of climate change, awareness and adoption of climate smart agricultural (CSA) practices, and types and sour...
This chapter addresses the critical links of gender with climate change and agriculture. In Zimbabwe and the rest of the developing world, both women and men are smallholders, yet the role that women play is often unrecognised. Globally, women make up 43% of the agricultural labour force, and in ...
Huyer, Sophia
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Nyasimi, Mary
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[Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Agriculture Education in Zimbabwe]
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Manual for Agriculture Education in Zimbabwe
Women face barriers that significantly constrain their production and entangle them in a low productivity trap. These barriers encompass societal norms, the gender division of labour (GDOL), resource constraints (access to and use of land), no or low use of inputs (egdrought-adapted seeds), and ...
Nyasimi, Mary
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Huyer, Sophia
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[Closing the gender gap in agriculture under climate change]
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Closing the gender gap in agriculture under climate change
Concerns of climate change impacts and adaptations have continued to receive much attention in both local and international climate change debate. It is now understood that the challenge of climate change cannot be addressed as a standalone issue but within different social, economic, and environ...
Nyasimi, Mary
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Ayanlade, Ayansina
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Mungai, Catherine
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Derkyi, M.
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Jegede M.O.
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[Inclusion of gender in Africa’s climate change policies and strategies]
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Inclusion of gender in Africa’s climate change policies and strategies
The gender perspective of climate information use is not well studied although
necessary for developing gender-responsive climate information services (CIS). This study
determined how CIS use by men and women farmers may be influenced by their perceptions
about climate change (CC), farm activitie...
Partey, Samuel T.
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Dakorah, Angela D.
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Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Ouédraogo, Mathieu
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Nyasimi, Mary
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Nikoi, Gordon K
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Huyer, Sophia
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[Gender and climate risk management: evidence of climate information use in Ghana]
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Gender and climate risk management: evidence of climate information use in Ghana