Contextual realities and poverty traps: Why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture
Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) is gaining prominence as an agricultural pathway to poverty reduction and enhancement of sustainable food systems among government and development actors in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of South Asia. Despite substantial investment in research and extension programs and a growing understanding of the agronomic, economic and labor-saving benefits of CASI, uptake remains limited. This study explores farmer experiences and perspectives to establish why farmers choose not to implement CASI systems despite a strong body of recent scientific evidence establishing the benefits of them doing so. Through thematic coding of semi-structured interviews, key constraints are identified, which establishes a narrative that current households' resources are insufficient to enable practice change, alongside limited supporting structures for resource supplementation. Such issues create a dependency on subsidies and outside support, a situation that is likely to impact any farming system change given the low-risk profiles of farmers and their limited resource base. This paper hence sets out broad implications for creating change in smallholder farming systems in order to promote the adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies in resource-poor smallholder contexts, especially with regard to breaking the profound poverty cycles that smallholder farmers find themselves in and which are unlikely to be broken by the current set of technologies promoted to them.
Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
---|---|
Format: | Article biblioteca |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Cambridge University Press
2023
|
Subjects: | AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, AGRICULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE, POVERTY TRAPS, Sustainable Agrifood Systems, |
Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10883/22542 |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
dig-cimmyt-10883-22542 |
---|---|
record_format |
koha |
spelling |
dig-cimmyt-10883-225422023-03-11T10:00:29Z Contextual realities and poverty traps: Why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture Chaudhary, A. Timsina, P. Karki, E.S. Sharma, A. Suri, B. Sharma, R. Brown, B. AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE POVERTY TRAPS Sustainable Agrifood Systems Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) is gaining prominence as an agricultural pathway to poverty reduction and enhancement of sustainable food systems among government and development actors in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of South Asia. Despite substantial investment in research and extension programs and a growing understanding of the agronomic, economic and labor-saving benefits of CASI, uptake remains limited. This study explores farmer experiences and perspectives to establish why farmers choose not to implement CASI systems despite a strong body of recent scientific evidence establishing the benefits of them doing so. Through thematic coding of semi-structured interviews, key constraints are identified, which establishes a narrative that current households' resources are insufficient to enable practice change, alongside limited supporting structures for resource supplementation. Such issues create a dependency on subsidies and outside support, a situation that is likely to impact any farming system change given the low-risk profiles of farmers and their limited resource base. This paper hence sets out broad implications for creating change in smallholder farming systems in order to promote the adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies in resource-poor smallholder contexts, especially with regard to breaking the profound poverty cycles that smallholder farmers find themselves in and which are unlikely to be broken by the current set of technologies promoted to them. 2023-03-10T20:30:12Z 2023-03-10T20:30:12Z 2023 Article Published Version https://hdl.handle.net/10883/22542 10.1017/S1742170523000066 English CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose Open Access South Asia United Kingdom Cambridge University Press 38 1742-1705 Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems e13 |
institution |
CIMMYT |
collection |
DSpace |
country |
México |
countrycode |
MX |
component |
Bibliográfico |
access |
En linea |
databasecode |
dig-cimmyt |
tag |
biblioteca |
region |
America del Norte |
libraryname |
CIMMYT Library |
language |
English |
topic |
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE POVERTY TRAPS Sustainable Agrifood Systems AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE POVERTY TRAPS Sustainable Agrifood Systems |
spellingShingle |
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE POVERTY TRAPS Sustainable Agrifood Systems AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE POVERTY TRAPS Sustainable Agrifood Systems Chaudhary, A. Timsina, P. Karki, E.S. Sharma, A. Suri, B. Sharma, R. Brown, B. Contextual realities and poverty traps: Why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture |
description |
Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) is gaining prominence as an agricultural pathway to poverty reduction and enhancement of sustainable food systems among government and development actors in the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) of South Asia. Despite substantial investment in research and extension programs and a growing understanding of the agronomic, economic and labor-saving benefits of CASI, uptake remains limited. This study explores farmer experiences and perspectives to establish why farmers choose not to implement CASI systems despite a strong body of recent scientific evidence establishing the benefits of them doing so. Through thematic coding of semi-structured interviews, key constraints are identified, which establishes a narrative that current households' resources are insufficient to enable practice change, alongside limited supporting structures for resource supplementation. Such issues create a dependency on subsidies and outside support, a situation that is likely to impact any farming system change given the low-risk profiles of farmers and their limited resource base. This paper hence sets out broad implications for creating change in smallholder farming systems in order to promote the adoption of sustainable agricultural technologies in resource-poor smallholder contexts, especially with regard to breaking the profound poverty cycles that smallholder farmers find themselves in and which are unlikely to be broken by the current set of technologies promoted to them. |
format |
Article |
topic_facet |
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE POVERTY TRAPS Sustainable Agrifood Systems |
author |
Chaudhary, A. Timsina, P. Karki, E.S. Sharma, A. Suri, B. Sharma, R. Brown, B. |
author_facet |
Chaudhary, A. Timsina, P. Karki, E.S. Sharma, A. Suri, B. Sharma, R. Brown, B. |
author_sort |
Chaudhary, A. |
title |
Contextual realities and poverty traps: Why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture |
title_short |
Contextual realities and poverty traps: Why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture |
title_full |
Contextual realities and poverty traps: Why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture |
title_fullStr |
Contextual realities and poverty traps: Why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture |
title_full_unstemmed |
Contextual realities and poverty traps: Why South Asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture |
title_sort |
contextual realities and poverty traps: why south asian smallholder farmers negatively evaluate conservation agriculture |
publisher |
Cambridge University Press |
publishDate |
2023 |
url |
https://hdl.handle.net/10883/22542 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT chaudharya contextualrealitiesandpovertytrapswhysouthasiansmallholderfarmersnegativelyevaluateconservationagriculture AT timsinap contextualrealitiesandpovertytrapswhysouthasiansmallholderfarmersnegativelyevaluateconservationagriculture AT karkies contextualrealitiesandpovertytrapswhysouthasiansmallholderfarmersnegativelyevaluateconservationagriculture AT sharmaa contextualrealitiesandpovertytrapswhysouthasiansmallholderfarmersnegativelyevaluateconservationagriculture AT surib contextualrealitiesandpovertytrapswhysouthasiansmallholderfarmersnegativelyevaluateconservationagriculture AT sharmar contextualrealitiesandpovertytrapswhysouthasiansmallholderfarmersnegativelyevaluateconservationagriculture AT brownb contextualrealitiesandpovertytrapswhysouthasiansmallholderfarmersnegativelyevaluateconservationagriculture |
_version_ |
1762944459992989696 |