Evidence on the impacts of cash and in-kind transfers combined with farmer fields schools on the wellbeing and climate resilience
7 October 2024. Isiolo County, Kenya. FAO staff visiting the collective farm of a women's group.
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| Project's full title | Building Back Better and Greener: Integrated approaches for an inclusive and green COVID-19 response in rural spaces |
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| Introduction | This study evaluates the impact of the intervention, combining tailored training on climate-smart agricultural practices and predictive livestock early warning systems (PLEWS) with individual or community-level grants, using a clustered randomized control trial to assess the effects on food security, income diversification, collective action, and resilience, contributing to strategies for sustainable rural development in arid and semi-arid regions. |
| Country | Kenya |
| Start date | 31/05/2020 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Recipient / Target Areas | Kenya |
| Project Code | FVC/GLO/203/MUL |
| Objective / Goal | To evaluate the effectiveness of integrating climate-adaptive agricultural training with individual and community-level enterprise grants in fostering food security, resilience, and livelihood diversification among pastoralist households in Isiolo, Kenya, while generating evidence for scalable strategies in arid and semi-arid regions. |
| Partners | FAO Country Office of Kenya |
| Beneficiaries | 1 350 households |
| Activities | Baseline data collection of (October 2022) and Endline data collection (October 2024) for 788 households. |
| Contact | [email protected] |
| KENYA 2024. Impact evaluation: Building Back Better and Greener | |
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Climate adaptation, perceived resilience, and household wellbeing: Comparative evidence from Kenya and Zambia09/04/2025This study examines how climate-adaptive agricultural practices influence perceived resilience and household wellbeing in pastoralist Kenya and rain-fed Zambia. Using a typology of adaptation strategies and a doubly-robust IPWRA approach, findings show capital-intensive practices consistently enhance resilience and wellbeing, while labor-intensive and diversification strategies have more context-dependent effects. Results underscore the need for integrated, context-specific adaptation support. |