@article{Arslan:210962,
      recid = {210962},
      author = {Arslan, Aslihan and McCarthy, Nancy and Lipper, Leslie and  Asfaw, Solomon and Cattaneo, Andrea and Kokwe, Misael},
      title = {Climate Smart Agriculture? Assessing the Adaptation  Implications in Zambia},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-80403},
      pages = {29},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {We examine a set of potentially climate smart agricultural  practices, including
reduced tillage, crop rotation and  legume intercropping, combined with the use of
improved  seeds and inorganic fertiliser, for their effects on maize  yields in Zambia.
We use panel data from the Rural Incomes  and Livelihoods Surveys merged with a
novel set of climatic  variables based on geo-referenced historical rainfall and  temperature
data to explore the changing effects of these  practices with climatic conditions.
We estimate the impacts  on maize yields, and also on the exhibition of very
low  yields and yield shortfalls from average levels, as  indicators of resilience, while
controlling for household  characteristics. We find that minimum soil disturbance
and  crop rotation have no significant impact on these yield  outcomes, but that
legume intercropping significantly  increases yields and reduces the probability of
low yields  even under critical weather stress during the growing  season. We also
find that the average positive impacts of  modern input use (seeds and fertilisers)
are significantly  conditioned by climatic variables. Timely access to  fertiliser
emerges as one of the most robust determinants  of yields and their resilience. These
results have policy  implications for targeted interventions to improve  theproductivity and the resilience of smallholder  agriculture in Zambia in the face of
climate change.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/210962},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.210962},
}