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Factors Influencing Potential Acceptance and Adoption of Clean Development Mechanism Projects: Case of Carbon Trade Tree Project among Small Scale Farmers in Njoro District, Kenya
Oscar I. Ayuya, Job K. Lagat and John M. Mironga
Corresponding Author: Oscar Ingasia Ayuya
Submitted: 2010 December, 27
Accepted: 2011 January, 27
Published: 2011 April, 05 |
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The aim of study was to assess the willingness of small scale farmers to accept and the extent of
willingness to adopt carbon trade tree project and by so doing to identify and quantify factors that will influence
adoption of carbon trade tree project. The study used multi-stage sampling procedure to select 150 small-scale
farmers in Njoro district, Kenya. Both primary and secondary data sources collected using observations and
interviews with the help of a semi-structured questionnaire. The double hurdle model was used identify the
factors that influence the willingness to accept and the extent the farmers are willing to adopt the carbon tree
trade project. Findings of the double hurdle model indicate that gender, household size, farm debt, attitude
towards risk, farm size,land tenure, availability of voluntary CDM and perception of the technology were found
to influence the willingness to accept the project. Further, age, extension contacts, attitude towards risk, land
tenure and perception towards the technology influenced on the extent the farmer is willing to adopt. The study
therefore, recommends policy interventions of improved training offarmers and extension officers on agroenvironmental
programmes, formation of agro-environmental self-help groups by farmers and creation of
strategies that would improve socio-economic conditions of smallholder farmers in Kenya.
Key words: Carbon sequestration, double hurdle model, willingness, , , ,
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Oscar I. Ayuya, Job K. Lagat and John M. Mironga, . Factors Influencing Potential Acceptance and Adoption of Clean Development Mechanism Projects: Case of Carbon Trade Tree Project among Small Scale Farmers in Njoro District, Kenya. Research Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences, (3): 275-285.
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