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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Environ. Econ.

Sec. Agricultural Economics

Volume 4 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frevc.2025.1524321

This article is part of the Research TopicSustainable Innovations in Agriculture: Economic Analysis of Climate Smart PracticesView all 10 articles

Exploring disparities in the diffusion and adoption of climate-smart agricultural and climate information system technologies in Senegal

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Nadine WorouNadine Worou1Blaise Waly BasseBlaise Waly Basse2*Adjani Nourou-Dine YESSOUFOUAdjani Nourou-Dine YESSOUFOU1Etienne Aliouse SarrEtienne Aliouse Sarr1Therese Mwatitha GondweTherese Mwatitha Gondwe3Maya MooreMaya Moore4Emannuel JacobEmannuel Jacob5Florounsho AkinseyeFlorounsho Akinseye6Khalifa MbowKhalifa Mbow7
  • 1International Livestock Research Institute (Senegal), Saint-Louis, Senegal
  • 2Ziguinchor University, Ziguinchor, Ziguinchor, Senegal
  • 3International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Lilongwe, Malawi
  • 4International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, United States
  • 5Centre National de Recherches Agronomiques (CNRA), Dakar, Senegal
  • 6International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Mali), Bamako, Mali
  • 7Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal

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Gender mainstreaming in the dissemination and adoption of climate-smart agricultural technologies (CSA) and access to the climate information services (CIS) can help mitigate the effects of climate change and reduce specific disadvantages suffered by women and young people. Focusing on 473 households in the Thies, Louga and Kaffrine regions of Senegal, the results of the average treatment effect (ATE) method reveal a higher rate of resilient seed adoption among women. However, the rate of adoption of micro-dosing techniques and the use of climate information are higher among youth. A negative and significant adoption gap (GAP) confirms that not all of the population had been exposed to CSA and CIS technologies, hence the existence of a non-exposure bias justifying further dissemination.

Keywords: climate information services, Climate-Smart Agricultural Technology, Farmers, Adoption, Senegal

Received: 13 Nov 2024; Accepted: 23 Oct 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Worou, Basse, YESSOUFOU, Sarr, Gondwe, Moore, Jacob, Akinseye and Mbow. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Blaise Waly Basse, blaisebasse11@hotmail.fr

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