Impact of climate smart agriculture on food security: An agent-based analysis

Davide Bazzana, Jeremy Foltz and Ying Zhang

Food Policy, 2022, vol. 111, issue C

Abstract: The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food security. The analysis investigates the role of social and ecological pressures (i.e. community network, climate change and environmental externalities) on the adoption of physical water and soil practices as well as crop rotation techniques in rural Ethiopia. The findings reveal that CSA can be an effective strategy to improve the rural populations' well-being for farm households with access to capital, strong social networks and access to integrated food markets. The climate scenario simulations indicate that farmers adopting CSA fare better than non-adopters, although CSA adoption does not fully counterbalance the severe climate pressures. In addition, farmers with poor connections to food markets benefit less from CSA due to stronger price oscillations. These results call for an active role for policy makers in encouraging adaptation through CSA adoption by increasing access to capital, improving food market integration and building information sharing among farmers.

Keywords: Climate smart agriculture; Food security; Agent-based modelling; Externality; Sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 O13 Q1 Q15 Q55 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102304

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