Shifting Smallholders’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Farming Practice for Climate Justice: Experimental Evidence from Nigeria
Domain:
agricultureCreator:
Efo
Editor:
Cen
Publisher:
ega
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This proposal explores if incentives towards adopting sustainable farming practices vary with smallholders’ gender. In Nigeria, women account for 70-80% of the agricultural labour force and engage in non-sustainable farming practices such as bush burning to clean the field before seeding. This study intends to design a survey experiment to explore if women smallholders (compared to male peers) are more likely to be opened to policies and behavioral change for sustainable farming practices when information about such practice (bush burning) is framed as bringing benefits to social (including improved health from decarbonization) and economic wellbeing. We expect support for policies and behavioral change for sustainable farming practices with exposure to the treatment. We also expect a higher impact for women than men following the intersections between women’s rights and the protection of the environment, given the lived realities of more women engagement with the environment.
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