Understanding the impact of sustainable land-scape management practices on farm productivity under intensifying tropical cyclones: Evidence from Southern Malawi

作     者：Innocent Pangapanga-Phiri Eric Dada Mungatana Lucy Pangapanga Francis Samson Nkoka 

作者机构：Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural ResourcesDepartment(s)of Environmental and Natural Resource Management|Agricultural and Applied EconomicsLilongweMalawi Department of Agricultural EconomicsStellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa Research for DevelopmentSmart Project EvaluationLilongweMalawi UrbanDisaster Risk ManagementResilienceand Land UnitThe World Bank GroupLilongweMalawi 

出 版 物：《Tropical Cyclone Research and Review》 (热带气旋研究与评论（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第11卷第4期

页      面：265-276页

学科分类：120301[管理学-农业经济管理] 12[管理学] 1203[管理学-农林经济管理] 07[理学] 070601[理学-气象学] 0706[理学-大气科学] 

主　　题：Tropical cyclones Sustainable land-scape management practices Farm productivity Endogenous switching regression model 

摘      要：Southern Malawi is continuously affected by tropical cyclone-related floods(TCRFs),which have negative consequences on households livelihoods,thereby displacing most households to neighbouring communities of *** TCRFs have further threatened national,regional,community,and household food security agenda,which is already constrained by poverty,poor agricultural practices,low use of improved varieties,unaffordable inorganic fertilizers,and fragmenting landholding ***,households have indigenously engineered resilience-based Sustainable Landscape Management(SLM)practices,like intercropping,agroforestry,cover cropping,and soil and water conservation practices,against the adverse effects of TCRFs on-farm ***,this study examines the effect of TCRFs and SLM adoption on-farm *** using rigorous endogenous switching regression econometric tools,the study finds TCRFs reducing farm productivity by 27 *** SLM adoption,the study observes farm productivity enhancement by 29-126 percent when households adopt at least one SLM practices under varying degrees of *** the highlighted advantages of SLM adoption,female farmers are less likely to adopt SLM practices because they do not have access to productive ***,the study proposes the need of gender targeted extension services,accompanied by some seed capital for SLM ***,there is need to sensitize farmers on the complementarities between inorganic fertilizer and SLM ***,future studies should assess the effect of sustained SLM adoption or dis-adoption and input intensification on farm productivity.