Promoting the adoption of climate-smart agricultural technologies among maize farmers in Ghana: using digital advisory services

Bright O. Asante (), Wanglin Ma (), Stephen Prah () and Omphile Temoso ()
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Bright O. Asante: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Wanglin Ma: Lincoln University
Stephen Prah: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Omphile Temoso: UNE Business School, University of New England

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2024, vol. 29, issue 3, No 1, 24 pages

Abstract: Abstract Although policy and advisory communities have promoted the use of digital advisory services (DAS) to stimulate technology adoption among smallholder farmers, little is known about whether DAS use encourages farmers to adopt climate-smart agricultural (CSA) technologies. This study addresses the gap by estimating data collected from 3197 maize-producing households in rural Ghana and considering three CSA technologies: row planting, zero tillage, and drought-tolerant seeds. A recursive bivariate probit model is utilized to mitigate selection bias issues. The results show that DAS use significantly increases the probabilities of adopting row planting, zero tillage, and drought-tolerant seeds by 12.4%, 4.2%, and 4.6%, respectively. Maize farmers’ decisions to use DAS are influenced by their age, gender, education, family size, asset value, distance to farm, perceived incidence of pest and disease, perceived drought stress, and membership in farmer-based organizations (FBO). Furthermore, the disaggregated analysis reveals that DAS use has a larger impact on the row planting adoption of female farmers than males.

Keywords: Digital advisory services; Climate-smart agriculture; Impact assessment; Maize farmers; Ghana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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