Climate-smart agricultural practices and technologies adoption

The study examines the drivers and barriers to the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) across five European production systems, incorporating perspectives from a wide range of stakeholders beyond just farmers. The primary drivers for adoption are economic, institutional/policy, and personal/psychological factors, while the main barriers are economic, technology-related, and institutional/policy factors. Stakeholders suggest that overcoming these hurdles requires financial support, policy reform, capacity-building, and improved coordination and communication strategies to make CSA practices more attractive to farmers.

• The primary drivers for the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) across the five studied food supply chains are categorized as economic, institutional and policy, and personal and psychological factors.
• The main barriers limiting the adoption of CSA practices are identified as economic factors, technology-related aspects, and institutional and policy factors.
• Stakeholders indicate that increasing the attractiveness of CSA practices, particularly for farmers, requires a combination of financial support, policy changes, capacity-building, improved stakeholder coordination, incentives, and customized communication strategies.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2024). Climate-smart agricultural practices and technologies adoption. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-smart-agricultural-practices-and-technologies-adoption/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate-smart agricultural practices and technologies adoption. 2024. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-smart-agricultural-practices-and-technologies-adoption/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Climate-smart agricultural practices and technologies adoption |date=11 June 2024 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-smart-agricultural-practices-and-technologies-adoption/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2024climatesmart, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate-smart agricultural practices and technologies adoption}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2024}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-smart-agricultural-practices-and-technologies-adoption/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }