Beyond Striga Management: Learning Videos Enhanced Farmers‟ Knowledge on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Mali

Gérard C. Zoundji, Simplice D. Vodouhê, Florent Okry, Jeffrey W. Bentley and Rigobert C. Tossou

Sustainable Agriculture Research, 2018, vol. 07, issue 01

Abstract: This paper assesses the climate smart agricultural practices triggered by learning videos on integrated striga management, soil fertility and cost-benefit evaluation practices. Using household head interviews and focus group discussions, this study revealed that farmers have similar perceptions of climate change and related impacts in video-villages and in non-video-villages. However, farmers‟ observation of climate change and related impacts are influenced by gender; men perceived more climate change and related impacts than women. In non-video villages, few respondents adopted crop rotation, intercropping, crop diversification, improved short-cycle seed varieties and zaï techniques as climate change adaptation strategies. Videos contribute more to the adoption of crop rotation, intercropping and fertiliser application for men than for women. Videos on accounting (managing money) enable more women than men to enhance their cost-benefit evaluation practices for income improvement. During the interviews, women farmers in video-villages were eager to demonstrate their knowledge about cost-benefit evaluation. We also found that the yield of sorghum, millet and maize is higher in video-villages than in non-video-villages. Thus, using videos as an extension tool is suitable for knowledge development and leads to the high adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices for food security.

Keywords: Environmental; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.301275

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