Communicating climate change adaptation strategies: climate-smart agriculture information dissemination pathways among smallholder potato farmers in Gilgil Sub-County, Kenya

• DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07873
• Publication Date: 2021-08-25T15:53:52Z
• Authors: Andrew Waaswa; Agnes Oywaya Nkur...; Anthony Mwangi Kibe; Ng'eno Joel Kipkemoi
• Keywords: Agroecology

Proven and sustainable practices like climate-smart agricultural (CSAPs) need to be prioritized promoted for uptake especially by the farmers achieve development. These are capable of contributing realization development goals through averting food nutritional insecurity, increasing sustaining yields that translate into increased incomes later reduced poverty. This is because CSAPs enable adapt mitigate climate change effects. However, due inappropriate communication farmers, date, some still see no escape route from frightening effects they currently adopting a rather fatalistic attitude. study investigated information dissemination pathways used different categories smallholder potato practice CSAPs. It found difference between sources at 5% level significance (χ2 = 100.12139, df 2, p < 0.05, Cramer's V 1.0), in use three men women 6.05949, 0.17406). The included media, neighbors friends, extension officers. Generally, were aware practiced this except irrigation with high awareness yet low percentage seedlings minitubers both respectively. recommended mainstreaming information.