Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Technologies and Practices in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings: A Review and Meta-Analysis
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leibniz institute fur wirtschaftsforschung
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A major challenge for countries dealing with conflict and instability is encouraging the use of farming
technologies and natural resource management practices that are climate-smart. These practices boost
productivity, build resilience to climate challenges and thus contribute to other dimensions of resilience
such as those associated with conflict. In this review and meta-analysis, we assess factors associated with
farmers’ adoption decisions for such technologies and practices. We use advanced machine learning tools
to analyze over 42,000 published papers. Focusing on countries identified as fragile due to either climate
shocks or conflict, we select 109 papers and extract 1330 coefficients and implement partial correlation
coefficient analysis. Our findings show that most of the research comes from two countries; Ethiopia and
Nigeria and we do not find any studies from Small Island States. We categorized the technologies into five
technology groups, including soil health, erosion management, mechanization, input use and risk reduction
technologies. Analysis reveals that factors such as farmer training, access to information, subsidies, and
past experiences of using technologies predicts further technology adoption. However, there are significant differences across various technology groups and most especially, a very low coverage of risk-reduction technologies such as insurance.
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climate change, fragility, agriculture technology adoption, determinant