A6 Towards climate-smart farming: acceptance, incentives and potentials

Subproject A6 aims at an improved understanding on how to raise acceptance of climate-smart adaptation to climate change by adopting practices and agricultural production systems aligned with Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA). Our focus is on the Global North, where we consider CSA as agronomic production process- and organization-based measures that are regionally specific. Target regions in the global North will be selected once the team is set up. We rely on a multi-disciplinary approach bringing together insights from agronomy, data science, agricultural and business economics, psychology, decision and landscape science, and empirical methods in economics. We suggest three work packages (WP) as potential dissertation topics, i.e., a doctoral student will opt for one, ranging from the individual farm/farmer decision-making using a behavioural perspective combined with policy analysis, to the farm and landscape perspective for evaluation of different farming systems using eco-efficiency approaches and observational data with sophisticated methods (e.g., machine learning).

Possible dissertation topics:

Behavioural facilitators and barriers for farmers’ decisions to adopt climate-smart farming
Adopting climate-smart farming: appraisals and policies
Sustainability performance of climate-smart farming: an eco-efficiency perspective

Silke Hüttel