The Role of Farmers’ Entrepreneurial Orientation on Agricultural Innovations in Ugandan Multi-Stakeholder Platform



https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-92798-5_17
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Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
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book chapter
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The Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers
Author(s): 
Iza C.L.B.
Dentoni D.
Mordini M.
Isubikalu P.
Oduol J.
Omta O.
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This chapter aims to shed light on the broad debate surrounding when and why farmers adopt agricultural innovations, especially in the context of multi-stakeholder platforms (MSP) seeking to scale climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices. No research has yet tested the hypothesis that farmer entrepreneurship—defined as the innovative use of agricultural resources to create opportunities for value creation—may facilitate the adoption of CSA practices. This study is intended to fill that information gap. Farmers involved in coffee and honey MSPs in the Manafwa region of Uganda filled out questionnaires that evaluated four types of entrepreneurial competences: innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness and intentions. The goal was to investigate quantitatively the influence of farmer entrepreneurship and farm characteristics on product innovation, process innovation and market innovation. Results confirmed earlier research showing that farmer educational levels have a stronger influence on process innovation than any other variable. In addition, it was shown that farm size and access to resources have a significant effect on all forms of agricultural innovation

Publication year: 
2018
Keywords: 
CSA
Multi-stakeholder platforms
Entrepreneurship
Innovation
risk-taking