Factors Affecting Multiple Climate Change Adaptation Practices of Smallholder Farmers in lower Eastern Kenya

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dc.contributor.authorMogaka, Hezron R.
dc.contributor.authorMuriithi, Lydia
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-09T08:24:00Z
dc.date.available2022-02-09T08:24:00Z
dc.date.issued2021-10
dc.descriptionArticleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe study investigated the socioeconomic and institutional factors influencing uptake of multiple climate change adaptation practices among smallholder farmers in lower Eastern Kenya. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select 384 small-scale farmers. Percentage and regression were used in the analysis. Among the socio-economic factors, gender positively and significantly influenced adoption of conservation agriculture and water harvesting at 5%, respectively. Among the institutional factors, distance to markets positively or negatively influenced uptake of all the technologies at 1% and 5%, respectively. Due to complementarity in adoption of all the seven adaptation practices, age and distance to nearest markets should be considered during technology dissemination. The study, therefore, calls for agricultural policy reforms that aim at designing incentive programmes which adequately address most of the socioeconomic and institutional issues related to uptake of adaptation practices as well as encouraging off-farm diversification.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVol. 25 (4) October, 2021en_US
dc.identifier.uriDOI: 10.4314/jae.v25i4.10
dc.identifier.urihttp://repository.embuni.ac.ke/handle/embuni/3980
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Agricultural Extensionen_US
dc.subjectAdoptionen_US
dc.subjectagricultural technologiesen_US
dc.subjectsmallholder farmersen_US
dc.titleFactors Affecting Multiple Climate Change Adaptation Practices of Smallholder Farmers in lower Eastern Kenyaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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