Marshall Makate

TL;DR: The results are indicative of the importance of crop diversification as a viable climate smart agriculture practice that significantly enhances crop productivity and consequently resilience in rural smallholder farming systems and recommend wider adoption of diversified cropping systems notably those currently less diversified for greater adaptation to the ever-changing climate.

TL;DR: Results suggest that effective institutional and policy efforts targeted towards reducing resource constraints that inhibit farmers' capacity to adopt complementary climate-smart agriculture packages such as conservation agriculture, drought tolerant maize and improved legume varieties must be gender sensitive and context specific.

TL;DR: The findings indicated that an added year of motherly learning considerably improves the prospect of prenatal care use, literacy levels, father's educational level, and alters fertility behavior, and suggest that increasing the primary schooling prospects for young women might help reduce under-five mortality in less-industrialized regions experiencing high under- five fatalities such as in sub-Saharan Africa.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impacts of separate and joint access to credit and extension services on climate-smart agricultural (CSA) technologies adoption using household level survey data from Zimbabwe and Malawi and found that access to either extension or credit significantly progresses CSA technology adoption.

TL;DR: In this paper, a thorough socioeconomic analysis that recognizes the impact of climate-smart agriculture practices and their impact on livelihoods is presented, complemented by a thorough socio-economic analysis.