Adoption of Climate Smart and Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Practices in Southern Malawi

A 2026 study by Tchiyiwe Thandiwe Moyo analyzes the adoption of integrated climate smart and nutrition sensitive agriculture practices among 248 smallholder farming households in southern Malawi. The research compares outcomes from Farmer Field Schools and Farmer Field Business Schools against a control group. The dataset is a 30.5 KB supplementary document containing the study's results and analysis.

Use Cases

• Compare adoption rates of climate smart agriculture practices based on farmer group participation.
• Analyze factors associated with integrated practice adoption based on household characteristics like field size and age.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of participatory training approaches like Farmer Field Schools for promoting specific agricultural practices.

Strengths

• Includes statistical results from a two-wave survey of 248 households.
• Provides specific adoption rates and p-values for comparisons between intervention and control groups.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 30.5 KB document; the underlying raw survey data is not provided.
• Column-level documentation for the original survey is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the paper.
• Row count for the original survey data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Two-wave cross-sectional survey involving smallholder farming households, with follow-up questionnaires and field observations.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-24 05:39:51.

Geography

Southern Malawi