Authors:
Bindayaoba Thomas YAMEOGO, Patricia Emma KABORE/BONTOGHO
, Bio Mohamadou
TOROU
, Abdoul Rasmane BAGAGNAN
, Boubacar BARRY |
Abstract:
Integrating statistics and visualization analysis, this paper identifies and analyses the key barriers
to farmer's effective adoption of Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices in Dano and
Ouahigouya areas, Burkina Faso. The data used in this study were collected, in May 2016, from
147 households in the two different agro-ecological zones; these data were supplemented by
information from focus group discussion (FGD), interview with institutions, and direct
observation. It came out from this study that a better adoption of CSA practices requires a strong
understanding of barriers and mechanisms (appropriate policies, strategies and actions) that may
facilitate these practices by all actors involved in the diffusion, transfer and implementation
process. The inaccessibility of inputs, credit constraints, water shortage, uncertainty in market
condition, and climate risk appeared to be among factors that hindered farmer's ability and
willingness to adopt CSA practices. Therefore mechanisms (such as index based crop insurance
and property and procedural rights frameworks) that protect farmers from these hazards and
shocks could encourage them (especially, risk-averse farmers) to take on more risky and more
technologies that have high potential to maximize their profit. |
