Identifying indigenous knowledge and effective communication systems for adaptation to climate change by smallholder farmers of Kilifi District, Kenya
Abstract
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This study investigated the influence of incorporating feedback
from agricultural information users in agricultural communication
systems and identified coping strategies for adaptation to climate
change by smallholder farmers of Kenya. Food production,
especially in Kilifi district, has been declining over the years,
lowering food sufficiency to about 30 percent down, from 50
percent. This has persisted with continued changes in climate,
despite all the efforts put in by the government and non governmental
agencies.
Keywords
- adaptation
- Adaptation strategies
- agricultural information communication system
- biological phenomena
- Climate
- climate change
- Climatic change
- crops
- crop yield
- Egerton University
- group communication
- Indigenous technical knowledge
- Nairobi
- planting
- precipitation
- RUFORUM; Agricultural Higher Education
- yields
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