Does the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices pay off? Evidence on maize yields from Western Kenya.

cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2KE
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierGeorge Kanyenji: 0000-0002-8868-2143
cg.creator.identifierCecilia Onyango: 0000-0003-2009-668X
cg.creator.identifierStanley Karanja Ng'ang'a: 0000-0002-6166-7920
cg.placeAbuja, Nigeriaen
dc.contributor.authorKanyenji, George Magamboen
dc.contributor.authorOluoch-Kosura,Willisen
dc.contributor.authorOnyango, Cecilia Moraaen
dc.contributor.authorKaranja Ng'ang'a, Stanleyen
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-25T21:04:33Zen
dc.date.available2019-11-25T21:04:33Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/105884
dc.titleDoes the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices pay off? Evidence on maize yields from Western Kenya.en
dcterms.abstractSoil carbon enhancing practices (SCEPs) have been proven to be low-cost solutions in enhancing agricultural productivity and alleviate the detrimental effects of climate change. These practices can be adopted as complementary or as substitute practices due to their associated ecological benefits and cost. In view of this, there is limited literature on the impact of adopting a combination of SCEPs since their effect may be lower or higher than individual technologies. A structured survey was utilized to collect data from 334 households in Western Kenya. The study utilized the multinomial endogenous treatment effect model to assess the determinants and impact of adopting on maize yield. The results reveal that adoption is influenced by plots specific characteristics (distance to the plot and tenure system), external support factors (access to credit and farmers participation in markets), tropical livestock units and literacy level. In addition, the results showed that adoption of farmyard manure, intercropping, and intercropping and farmyard manure combination has a significant and positive impact on maize yield. This implies that there is a need to promote SCEPs adoption among smallholder farmers given its positive impact and associated low cost of implementationen
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKanyenji, George Magambo; Oluoch-Kosura,Willis; Onyango, Cecilia Moraa & Ng’ang’a, Stanley Karanja (2019). Does the adoption of soil carbon enhancing practices pay off? Evidence on maize yields from Western Kenya. In: ICINCO 2019 - 6th African Conference of Agricultural Economists. 23-26 Sept, 2019. Abuja, Nigeria, 1-18 pen
dcterms.issued2019-09-23
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherAfrican Association of Agricultural Economistsen
dcterms.subjectyieldsen
dcterms.subjectproductivityen
dcterms.subjectsoilen
dcterms.subjectcarbonen
dcterms.subjectplotsen
dcterms.subjecterosionen
dcterms.typeConference Paper

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