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Thematic Session: Environmental and Climate Policy Interactions and Synergies: Evidence from Practice (Streaming) Location: B137 Session Chair: Adriana Molina-Garzon, University of Indiana Indianapolis Session Chair: Ana Andino, Duke University | |
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Adoption of Water - Smart Agriculture Practices by Smallholder Farmers in Central America’s Dry Corridor 1: Duke University, United States of America; 2: Catholic Relief Services Smallholder farmers in Central America are highly vulnerable to climate change due to reliance on rain-fed agriculture, degraded soils, and limited adaptive resources. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and soil restoration can strengthen resilience, yet adoption remains uneven and poorly understood. Using survey data from 2,770 farmers across four Central American countries, collected three years after a large-scale CSA program, we examine how training affects adoption and perceived benefits and challenges. Training is strongly associated with adoption and with greater ability to identify practice-specific benefits, even years after program completion. However, resource constraints and high input costs - rather than lack of knowledge - are the main barriers to adoption to some key practices such as soil fertility management. These findings underscore that scaling CSA adoption requires not only effective training but also systems change to overcome economic and logistical constraints. | |