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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022

Does the Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices Impact Farmers' Income? Evidence from Ghana.

Wonder Agbenyo, Yuansheng Jiang, Xinxin Jia, Jingyi Wang, Gideon Ntim-Amo, Rahman Dunya, Anthony Siaw, Isaac Asare, Martinson Ankrah Twumasi

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Wonder AgbenyoCollege of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 610000, China.
Yuansheng JiangCollege of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 610000, China.ORCID 0000-0003-3033-3693
Xinxin JiaCollege of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 610000, China.
Jingyi WangCollege of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 610000, China.
Gideon Ntim-AmoCollege of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 610000, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5316-2976
Rahman DunyaCollege of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 610000, China.
Anthony SiawCollege of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 610000, China.
Isaac AsareCollege of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 610000, China.
Martinson Ankrah TwumasiCollege of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 610000, China.

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People's lives, particularly farmers', have been affected by extreme weather conditions that have reduced the yield of numerous crops due to climate change. Climate-smart agriculture practices can reduce or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions and have the propensity to increase farm income and productivity. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to ascertain whether CSA practices impact farmers' income. This study includes all cocoa farmers in the selected districts in the Ashanti Region. The population includes those who live in the six cocoa production villages. The multistage sampling procedure was considered based on the dominants of literature. The study used an endogenous switching regression framework to examine the effects of the adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices (CSAPs) on farmers' income. While estimating treatment effects, telasso uses lasso techniques to select the appropriate variable sets. The results revealed that gender, farm experience, age, household size, and farm size do not significantly influence the adoption of irrigation and crop insurance. The study revealed a significant positive impact of access to credit on adopting irrigation and crop insurance. The adoption of climate-smart practices has a positive coefficient. This indicates that if all respondents in each region adopts these practices, their income would increase significantly. This study shows that adopting irrigation practices leads to an increase in household income of 8.6% and 11.1%, respectively, for cocoa farmers. Crop insurance has a positive coefficient and is statistically significant on household income, on-farm, and off-farm. This paper shows that climate-smart practices such as crop insurance can positively influence farmers' income in Ghana. We also conjecture that crop insurance is the most effective and efficient climate-smart practice among the various agricultural practices. The study suggests that access to credit and mass awareness should be compulsory modules coupled with the consistent training of farmers on new technologies for effective policy implementation. Expanding access to extension officers could enhance farmers' adaptive capacity and warrant the efficiency of implemented practices.

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CacaoFarmersAgricultureClimate ChangeFarmsGhanaHumansadoptionclimate changeclimate-smart agricultural practicesendogenous switch regressiontelasso treatment effect

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