 Promoting farmers' adoption of climate-smart agricultural technologies in Burkina Faso: the role of coordination along the value chainDénis B. Akouwerabou, Patrice K. Zanré, Kimseyinga Savadogo and Patrick J.W. Kaboré International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 2022, vol. 18, issue 3, 287-308 Abstract: Agriculture in developing countries is being threatened by climate change. Large-scale farmers can mitigate the effects of climate change by adopting appropriate technology. However, the majority of vulnerable smallholders cannot afford new technologies. This study looks at a particular case, cotton production in Burkina Faso, by asking whether a better vertical integration can help the individual, small farms in mitigating risk. We argue that the cotton ginning firms, which are situated downstream of the chain, would gain by helping out farmers to adapt to climate change. Using the maximum simulated likelihood method on the probit model with sample selection to investigate the effect of the cotton firms' actions in the form of the provision of quality advisory services, our study confirms that such action has a positive effect on farmers' adoption of soil and water conservation techniques, a subset of climate-smart technologies. Keywords: climate change; soil and water conservation; SWC; climate-smart technology; value chain coordination; cotton; Burkina Faso. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijarge:v:18:y:2022:i:3:p:287-308 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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