Awareness and adoption of land,soil and water conservation practices in the Chinyanja Triangle,Southern Africa
作者机构：International Centre for Tropical Agriculture(CIAT)c/o Kawanda Research StationP.O.Box 6247KampalaUganda International Centre for Tropical Agriculture(CIAT)P.O.MP 228HarareZimbabwe International Centre for Tropical Agriculture(CIAT)c/o Chitedze Agricultural Research StationP.O.Box 158LilongweMalawi
出 版 物：《International Soil and Water Conservation Research》 (国际水土保持研究（英文）)
年 卷 期：2017年第5卷第2期
页 面：122-129页
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学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学]
基 金：the Dryland Systems Consultative Research Programme(CRP11)
主 题：Conservation Agriculture Awareness Adoption Chinyanja Triangle
摘 要：The promotion of land,soil and water conservation measures has been a widespread development in sub-Saharan Africa in a bid to tackle degradation and improve *** a result,several gov-ernments have launched various campaigns on soil,land and water conservation *** aim of this study is to determine some of the factors that influence farmers awareness(knowledge)and adoption of land,soil and water conservation *** for this study was collected from 312 households using a questionnaire survey in the Chinyanja Triangle of Southern *** study *** sampled from Tete province of Mozambique,central and southern regions of Malawi and eastern Province of *** used t-tests to classify adopters and non-adopters of soil,land and water con-servation measures and binomial logit models to identify the factors that infuence farmers knowledge of conservation measures and adoption of land productivity *** results show that the household head s age,education,agricultural advice reception and farmer group membership are critical in raising *** the household head s age,education,agricultural advice reception,farmer group membership,pieces of land owned or used in production and land-to-man ratio influenced adoption *** study,therefore,concludes that in order to improve land productivity in the Chinyanja Triangle,there is a need to consider farmers heterogeneity in terms of household head s age,level of education,extension services outreach,and socio-economic char *** suggests that governments policies in the region should be aimed at improving farmers level of education,extension delivery that will target the elderly and the youth,land ownership,credit access,and social capital such as group formation.
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