A scoping review of adoption of climate-resilient crops by small-scale producers in low- and middle-income countries
| Autor: | Maricelis Acevedo, Jaron Porciello, Kate Ghezzi-Kopel, Kevin V. Pixley, Nkulumo Zinyengere, Karen A. Cichy, Hale Tufan, Livia Bizikova, Krista Isaacs, Sisi Meng |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Crops
Agricultural 0106 biological sciences 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Acclimatization Climate Change media_common.quotation_subject Climate change Plant Science 01 natural sciences Article Plant breeding Agricultural economics Humans Developing Countries 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Descriptive statistics business.industry fungi food and beverages Agriculture Outreach Scale (social sciences) Income Trait Marital status Business Psychological resilience Plant sciences 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Nature Plants |
| ISSN: | 2055-0278 |
| Popis: | Climate-resilient crops and crop varieties have been recommended as a way for farmers to cope with or adapt to climate change, but despite the apparent benefits, rates of adoption by smallholder farmers are highly variable. Here we present a scoping review, using PRISMA-P (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols), examining the conditions that have led to the adoption of climate-resilient crops over the past 30 years in lower- and middle-income countries. The descriptive analysis performed on 202 papers shows that small-scale producers adopted climate-resilient crops and varieties to cope with abiotic stresses such as drought, heat, flooding and salinity. The most prevalent trait in our dataset was drought tolerance, followed by water-use efficiency. Our analysis found that the most important determinants of adoption of climate-resilient crops were the availability and effectiveness of extension services and outreach, followed by education levels of heads of households, farmers’ access to inputs—especially seeds and fertilizers—and socio-economic status of farming families. About 53% of studies reported that social differences such as sex, age, marital status and ethnicity affected the adoption of varieties or crops as climate change-adaptation strategies. On the basis of the collected evidence, this study presents a series of pathways and interventions that could contribute to higher adoption rates of climate-resilient crops and reduce dis-adoption. Climate-resilient crops are essential for farmers to adapt to climate change. This scoping review identifies extension services and outreach as the most important factors for their adoption by small-scale producers in low- and middle-income countries. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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