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1 World Bank. 2012. Agricultural innovation systems: an investment sourcebook. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. 658p.
Agricultural development ; Agricultural education ; Agricultural research ; Agricultural training ; Vocational training ; Curriculum ; Technology transfer ; Monitoring ; Investment ; Financing ; Collective action ; Developing countries ; Cassava ; Fodder ; Models ; Public-private cooperation ; Organizations ; Governance ; Networks ; Marketing ; Farmers organizations ; Innovation ; Policy ; Agroindustrial sector ; Livestock ; Institutions ; Standards ; Regulations ; Smallholders ; Gender / India / Mexico / Egypt / Uganda / Ethiopia / Timor-Leste / Peru / Chile / China / Nicaragua / Zambia / Sierra Leone / Andhra Pradesh / Papa Andina
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630.7 G000 WOR Record No: H044794)
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2 CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 2018. Gender-equitable pathways to achieving sustainable agricultural intensification. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE). 12p. (Towards Sustainable Intensification: Insights and Solutions Brief 5) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2018.204]
Gender equity ; Sustainable agriculture ; Agricultural training ; Intensification ; Role of women ; Women’s participation ; Smallholders ; Land resources ; Land access ; Water resources ; Water availability ; Market access ; Socioeconomic environment ; Participatory approaches ; Decision making ; Nongovernmental organizations ; Food production ; Income ; Ecosystem services ; Labour allocation ; Living standards
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H048504)
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Women play an increasingly greater role in agriculture. Ensuring that they have opportunities—equal to those of men—to participate in transforming agriculture is a prerequisite for sustainable intensification. Increased gender equity in agriculture is both a practical and a social justice issue: practical because women are responsible for much of the production by smallholders; and social justice because in many cases they currently do not have rights over land and water resources, nor full access to markets, and often they do not even control the crops they produce. Strategies to promote gender equity must be tailored carefully to the social and economic context.
3 Ojo, T. O.; Adetoro, A. A.; Ogundeji, A. A.; Belle, J. A. 2021. Quantifying the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies and farmers' access to credit in South Africa. Science of the Total Environment, 792:148499. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148499]
Climate change adaptation ; Strategies ; Smallholders ; Farmers ; Agricultural credit ; Agricultural productivity ; Drought ; Risk ; Resilience ; Sustainability ; Policies ; Livestock ; Nonfarm income ; Agricultural training ; Gender ; Models / South Africa
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050471)
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The damaging effects of climate change on agricultural productivity are on the increase. Relevant adaptation strategies are important to cope with climate change risks and sustain agricultural productivity. This study employed descriptive statistics, multivariate probit (MVP) model and endogenous switching regression model (ESRM), to analyze the data collected using a survey questionnaire from four provinces in South Africa. The study estimated the determining factors influencing the adoption of climate change adaptation strategies and credit access among smallholder farmers in the study areas. The empirical results of the multivariate probit model showed that location, access to extension, non-farm income, farming experience, crop and livestock production, susceptibility, agricultural training and access to credit variables influenced the smallholder decision to adopt climate change adaptation strategies. On the other hand, the ESRM showed that location, age, marital status, gender among others, influenced the decision to adopt climate change adaptation strategies. The variables such as location, education, drought experience affected the smallholder farmers' access to credit. Thus, to improve the adaptive capacity of farmers, stakeholders and government must cooperate and collaborate to improve the conditions under which farmers can gain access to climate change information and suitable agricultural credit as well as policy incentives to ensure overall sustainability of the agricultural sector.
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