Climate-Smart Agriculture Adoption and Farm Income Stability Under Extreme Weather Conditions

Abstract

Farms are no longer facing a peripheral production risk due to extreme weather. It is direct income stabilization. The article employs a secondary qualitative review research design to assess the impacts of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) adoption on farm income stability in the face of heat, drought, flood and climatic variability. At the conceptual and secondary levels, the literature review is constructed based on the CSA, innovation diffusion and resilience, and the results intentionally employ another batch of 18 primary empirical studies. A thematic analysis finds that there are 4 cross-cutting patterns: bundled CSA practices are more consistently linked with both income and yield gains than single practices; extension, credit, cooperatives and digital advisory services determine adoption; resilience is more attributable when CSA attenuates income gains in shock years, not when it raises the average yield; and methodological claims are limited by cross-sectional data, selection bias and unequal access. The article contends that CSA is better suited to a risk-management portfolio than to a technology package.