Building pathways out of poverty through climate smart agriculture and effective targeting

Hellin, J. and Fisher, E. (2018) Building pathways out of poverty through climate smart agriculture and effective targeting. Development in Practice, 28 (7). pp. 974-979. ISSN 1364-9213 doi: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1492516

Abstract/Summary

A focus of agricultural development is climate smart agricultural technologies and practices (CSA). Development practitioners invest in scaling these to have wider impact. Ineffective targeting stymies CSA’s contribution to poverty reduction by excluding many of the poor and/or including those for whom agriculture is not a pathway out of poverty. We propose the need to recognise differentiated livelihood pathways within smallholder agriculture, linked to farmers’ differential capacity to engage in climate risk management. A farmer and livelihoods typology provides a framework to improved targeting of CSA and to identifying where alternative interventions, such as social protection, are more appropriate.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/76685
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/09614524.2018.1492516
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of International Development
Uncontrolled Keywords	Agriculture, Environment (built and natural), Climate change Environment (built and natural), Food security < Environment (built and natural), Gender and diversity, Poverty reduction < Labour and livelihoods
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
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