Sammanfattning

With growing global demand for food, unsustainable farming practices and large greenhouse gas emissions, farming systems need to sequester more carbon than they emit, while also increasing productivity and food production. The Kenya Agricultural Carbon Project (KACP) recruited farmer groups committed to more Sustainable Agricultural Land Management (SALM) practices and provided these groups with initial advisory services on SALM, farm enterprise development and village savings and loan associations. Recommended SALM practices included agroforestry, cover crops, mulching, composting manure, terracing, reduced tillage and water harvesting. The effects of the KACP on the uptake of SALM practices, maize yield, perceived food self-sufficiency and savings during the initial four years were assessed comparing control and project farmers using interviews, field visits and measurements. Farmers participating in the KACP seemed to have increased uptake of most SALM practices and decreased the use of practices to be avoided under the KACP recommendations. Agroforestry and terraces showed positive effects on maize yield. During all four years, the KACP farms had higher maize yield than control farms, but yield differences were similar in 2009 and 2012 and there was no overall significant effect of the KACP. In 2012, the KACP farms had higher food self-sufficiency and tended to have higher monetary savings than control farms.

Nyckelord

adaptation; carbon sequestration; Kisumu; Bungoma; payment for ecosystem services; village savings and loan associations

Publicerad i

Land
2020, Volym: 9, nummer: 10, artikelnummer: 389

SLU författare

• Nyberg, Ylva

  • Institutionen för växtproduktionsekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Wetterlind, Johanna

  • Institutionen för mark och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Öborn, Ingrid

  • Institutionen för växtproduktionsekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)

Globala målen

SDG2 Avskaffa hunger, uppnå tryggad livsmedelsförsörjning och förbättrad nutrition samt främja ett hållbart jordbruk
SDG8 Verka för varaktig, inkluderande och hållbar ekonomisk tillväxt, full och produktiv sysselsättning med anständiga arbetsvillkor för alla
SDG12 Säkerställa hållbara konsumtions- och produktionsmönster
SDG13 Vidta omedelbara åtgärder för att bekämpa klimatförändringarna och dess konsekvenser


UKÄ forskningsämne

Jordbruksvetenskap
Markvetenskap


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land9100389

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/108171