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Agricultural Marketing Co-operative Societies' existing potential in adopting Climate Smart Agriculture among Smallholder Farmers in Bukoba District, Tanzania

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dc.contributor.author Sanka, Marco B.
dc.contributor.author Malima, Masatu J.
dc.contributor.author Nkilijiwa, Angelina L.
dc.contributor.author Ruttajama, Justine J.
dc.date.accessioned 2024-08-22T06:31:22Z
dc.date.available 2024-08-22T06:31:22Z
dc.date.issued 2024
dc.identifier.citation Sanka., MB. Malima, MJ., Nkilijiwa, AL, and Ruttajama, J.J (2024). Agricultural Marketing Co-operative Societies' existing potentials in adopting Climate Smart Agriculture among Smallholder Farmers in Bukoba District, Tanzania. Journal of Co-operative and Business Studies, 8(1), 105-117 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2714-2043
dc.identifier.issn 0856-9037
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mocu.ac.tz/xmlui/handle/123456789/1356
dc.description The current issue and full-text archive of this journal is available at: journals.mocu.ac.tz en_US
dc.description.abstract Although the agriculture sector plays a crucial role in providing 90% of the world's food and employment opportunities, it is increasingly affected by climate change, resulting in decline in productivity and food insecurity. To address these challenges, Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) has been adopted globally, with many places using co-operatives to assist smallholder farmers. However, there is a lack of scholarly research on the potential of Agricultural Marketing Co-operative Societies (AMCOS) to adopt CSA in Bukoba District, Tanzania. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate Agricultural Marketing Co-operative Societies’ existing potential in adopting Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) among smallholder farmers in Bukoba District-Tanzania. A total of 384 smallholder farmers members of co-operatives were used to collect using semi-structured questionnaires while personal interview was also used to collect qualitative data from key informants. The analysis involved both descriptive statistics for quantitative data and thematic analysis of qualitative data. The findings from the descriptive analysis showed that smallholder farmers were generally neutral and disagreed with the idea that AMCOS were instrumental in facilitating the adoption of these practices. Specifically, they expressed neutral and disagree views on access to agricultural credits, availability of training/ capacity building, access to extension services, and access to improved crop varieties through AMCOS. In particular, a total 362(94%) of the farmers disagreed and strongly disagreed with the assertion that they had access to fertilizer through AMCOS. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Journal of Co-operative and Business Studies (JCBS) en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Vol. 8;No. 1
dc.subject Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) en_US
dc.subject Co-operatives en_US
dc.subject Climate change en_US
dc.subject AMCOS en_US
dc.subject Climate en_US
dc.subject Tanzania en_US
dc.title Agricultural Marketing Co-operative Societies' existing potential in adopting Climate Smart Agriculture among Smallholder Farmers in Bukoba District, Tanzania en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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