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Adoption by adaptation: moving from Conservation Agriculture to conservation practices

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Rodenburg, Jonne, Büchi, Lucie, Haggar, Jeremy·2021·International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
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Conservation Agriculture (CA) is a Sustainable Agricultural Intensification strategy based on minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil coverage by living or dead biomass, and diversification of crop rotations. We reviewed the literature on benefits, trade-offs, adoption and adaptation of CA in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While CA can improve soils and sustain crop yields, benefits are inconsistent and there are trade-offs with crop residue use, weeds and insect pests, labour demands and short-term yield penalties. Adoption rates by smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa are generally low. We hypothesize that underlying adoption constraints are 1) the magnitude of transformation of management practices required from farmers moving to CA, 2) the multiple inherent trade-offs associated with CA practices and 3) the incompatibility of CA practices to local conditions. We suggest CA adoption in SSA could be improved by focusing the promotion of CA to environments where it best fits, or by facilitating smallholders’ adaptation of the practices of CA to respond to their conditions and constraints. We, therefore, propose to move from Conservation Agriculture to Conservation Practices by: (A) identifying and overcoming locally important CA trade-offs through adaptations and complementary practices, and (B) finding farm-specific optimal combinations of practices in terms of feasibility and benefits.

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  • Successful CA application lies in the combination of adapting the three CA principles to the local context, which is not the case in standardized treatments in plot experiments.

    “Successful CA application lies in the combination of adapting the three CA principles to the local context, which is not the case in standardized treatments in plot experiments (Rodenburg et al. 2020).”

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    Section 6.3 advocates adapting CA to local conditions and choosing a farm-specific combination of practices. Section 6.1 says not all three principles are always needed, so the paper does not support a requirement to combine all three. The retrieved passages also do not make the specific comparison with standardized treatments in plot experiments. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Government of the United Kingdom
  • Department for International Development, UK Government
  • Department for International Development
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Management and Crop Yield
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Climate change impacts on agriculture
Keywords
conservation agriculture, adoption, adaptation, conservation practices, smallholder farmers, sub-Saharan Africa, sustainable intensification, soil disturbance, crop residue management, weed control, insect pests, labor demand, yield penalty

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

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