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DOI	10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126764
	An oasis in the dryland of Kenya! The case of irrigation as an adaptation strategy among the transitioning pastoralists and agro-pastoralists of Laikipia County, Kenya
	Ng'ang'a, Teresiah W.; Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.; Gachene, Charles K. K.; Kironchi, Geoffrey
通讯作者	Ng'ang'a, TW (corresponding author), Univ Nairobi, Dept Land Resource Management & Agr Technol, Box 29053-00625, Nairobi, Kenya.
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
ISSN	0959-6526
EISSN	1879-1786
出版年	2021
卷号	303
英文摘要	Irrigation as a climate-smart practice in agriculture is identified as a strategy accompanying the transformation witnessed where the dryland community is transitioning from pastoralism to agropastoralism. This community is learning and nurturing new adaptation strategies to adapt to the diminishing yet crucial natural resources. This article identifies the socio-economic factors that encourage or hinder the uptake of irrigation as an adaptation strategy among the dryland community in Laikipia County, Kenya. The Heckman probit model is used first, to assess a total of 494 household on how they perceive climate change, and secondly it identifies the drivers that either encourage these households or hinder them from adopting irrigation as an adaptation strategy. Results indicate that 80% of the households investigated experience the indicators of climate change, out of this, 32% adopted irrigation as an adaptation strategy to climatic changes among other livelihood changes. The drivers encouraging this uptake are identified as: quality of land for food production (1.152), assistance received from government (0.906), large livestock herd size, governance of community land tenure (1.556) and agronomic information (1.094). There is low possibility of adopting irrigation by older household heads (-0.0219) and those with small livestock herds (-0.473*). The sustainable development of agriculture promoted in these dryland regions requires a broader policy response that looks at the sustainability of irrigation as an adaption strategy in the dryland. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Adaptation strategy Irrigation Pastoralists Agro-pastoralists Climate change Socio-economic determinants
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000655681900013
WOS关键词	CLIMATE-CHANGE
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/350762
作者单位	[Ng'ang'a, Teresiah W.; Gachene, Charles K. K.; Kironchi, Geoffrey] Univ Nairobi, Dept Land Resource Management & Agr Technol, Box 29053-00625, Nairobi, Kenya; [Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.] World Agroforestry Ctr ICRAF, Landscape Governance Theme, POB 30677-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ng'ang'a, Teresiah W.,Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.,Gachene, Charles K. K.,et al. An oasis in the dryland of Kenya! The case of irrigation as an adaptation strategy among the transitioning pastoralists and agro-pastoralists of Laikipia County, Kenya[J],2021,303.
APA	Ng'ang'a, Teresiah W.,Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.,Gachene, Charles K. K.,&Kironchi, Geoffrey.(2021).An oasis in the dryland of Kenya! The case of irrigation as an adaptation strategy among the transitioning pastoralists and agro-pastoralists of Laikipia County, Kenya.JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION,303.
MLA	Ng'ang'a, Teresiah W.,et al."An oasis in the dryland of Kenya! The case of irrigation as an adaptation strategy among the transitioning pastoralists and agro-pastoralists of Laikipia County, Kenya".JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION 303(2021).