We can incorporate agriculture ecosystems into urban green economy in Tanzania: Dar es Salaam households are willing to pay

Submitted by Petra Hansson on
EfD Authors:
Tibesigwa, Byela
Ntuli, Herbert
Muta Denje, Telvin

We are living in a crisis era, with competing land use for finite land and ill-informed myopic urban land-use policies that remain stagnant, in a world with a rapidly changing urban environment, such as the mushrooming urban agriculture. While smallholder farms in and around cities, in sub-Saharan Africa, provide many ecosystem services including boosting household income and nutrition, and access to land constraints these benefits. This paper examines the willingness to pay for urban farm plots, using a random parameter logit model.

EfD Discussion Paper
Agriculture, Climate Change, Land, Policy Design, Urban

Impacts of climate‐smart crop varieties and livestock breeds on the food security of smallholder farmers in Kenya

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on
EfD Authors:
Ogada, Maurice

AbstractThis paper analyses the impact of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies on household dietary diversity and food insufficiency as indicators of food and nutrition security in Kenya. Using a combination of Propensity Score Matching and endogenous treatment effect approaches, we found that adoption of stress-tolerant varieties of several crops (such as bean, pigeon pea, cowpea, maize and sorghum) improved household dietary diversity score by 40% and reduced food insufficiency by 75%.

Peer Reviewed
Agriculture, Climate Change
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