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farming: evidence from Kenya
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Giusti, Giovanna De Kristjanson, Patricia M. Rufino, Mariana C. |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | 15 The promotion of agroforestry as a mitigation practice requires an understanding of the economic 16 benefits and its acceptability to farmers. This work examines the agro-ecological and socio17 economic factors that condition profitability and acceptance of agroforestry by smallholder farmers 18 in Western Kenya. We differentiate the use of trees according to the permanence of carbon 19 sequestration, introducing a distinction between practices with “high mitigation benefits” (timber) 20 and practices with “low mitigation benefits” (fuelwood). This study goes beyond the analysis of 21 incentives to plant trees to identify incentives to plant trees that lead to high mitigation outcomes. 22 We show that environmental factors shaping the production system largely drive the choice for 23 planting trees with high mitigation benefits. Most trees in the area are used for fuelwood, and the 24 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/131687/1/De_Giusti_et_al_2019_Climatic_Change_accepted.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
