Exploring the Impact of Climate Smart Innovations on Household Food Security in Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.author | Bedeke, Sisay Belay | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-06T07:52:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-06T07:52:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Agro-food systems in Sub-Saharan Africa are frequently hampered by climate change as most farmers rely heavily on a climate-sensitive rainfed system. To improve agricultural production and achieve food security while building resilience to climate risks, the promotion of Climate Smart Innovations (CSIs) such as crop choice and conservation tillage in combination with irrigation use is critically required. Although there is extensive literature in Ethiopia on the drivers of CSI adoption, there are mixed findings on the single and joint CSI adoption impacts on household food security. To this end, this study examines factors influencing a single and joint adoption of CSI and how this adoption impacts household food security in Ethiopia. Data on social, biophysical, and economic factors, institutional support systems, CSI adoption, and food security were obtained from a panel Ethiopian Socio-economic Survey (ESS) data, a nationally representative survey, covering three waves (2013/2014, 2015/2016, and 2018/2019). Descriptive statistics such as mean and percentages as well as an endogenous switching regression model were applied to estimate the effect of a single and joint CSI adoption on household food security while at the same time accounting for endogeneity problems. Findings indicate that a single and joint CSI adoption has positive effects on HFCS, but negative effects on the HFIAS and CCSI. Results reveal that a single CSI adoption has positive and significant gains over the joint CSI adoption in terms of HFCS. This is supported by the positive and significant gains for the single adoption of crop choice only and irrigation use only compared to the gains obtained from the joint adoption of crop choice, conservation tillage, and irrigation practices. Hence, the results do not support the notion that the joint adoption of large complementary CSI often results in higher gains in food security. Based on these results, it was concluded that improvement in food security is not only driven by the type and number of CSIs jointly adopted but rather depends on several policy-relevant variables including access to credit services and access to weather information, and membership status in farmer/women organizations. This suggests that greater support in terms of improving access to credit and weather information should be in place for CSI non-adopters to reduce food insecurity. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://publication.aercafricalibrary.org/handle/123456789/3986 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | AERC | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | AERC Working Paper 007-2025 | |
| dc.title | Exploring the Impact of Climate Smart Innovations on Household Food Security in Ethiopia | |
| dc.type | Working Paper |