The Adoption of Climate-Smart Practices and its Impact on Farm Income: The Case of Arid Namibia

Mintewab Bezabih (), Byela Tibesigwa () and Martine Visser
Additional contact information
Mintewab Bezabih: Environment and Climate Research Center, Policy Studies Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Byela Tibesigwa: University of Dar es Salaam

No 21-2, EfD Discussion Paper from Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg

Abstract: This study assesses the adoption of climate smart agricultural practices in arid Namibia and their impact on agricultural income. The estimation relies on multinomial endogenous switching regression estimations so as to account for simultaneous availability of multiple adaptation technologies, heterogeneity in adaptation, and possible selection bias in adoption. The analysis focused on comparing the impact on farm (crop and livestock) revenues of alternative adaptation technologies. Comparison of the relative importance of alternative adaptation practices shows that adaptation, all in all, leads to gains in farm income. We also found interesting results from singular versus combination adoption, with the former having higher impact on income as the number of diverse activities increases. This finding suggests that, given the diverse nature of Namibian agriculture, adoption of cross-sectoral practices is not always beneficial.

Keywords: climate-smart agriculture; combination of strategies; dryland smallholder farm household farm income; multinomial endogenous switching regression; Namibia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D14 Q15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2021-02-04
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.efdinitiative.org/sites/default/files/ ... DP%2021-02%20Feb.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:gunefd:2021_002

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in EfD Discussion Paper from Environment for Development, University of Gothenburg
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah ().