Consumption risk, farm characteristics, and soil conservation adoption among low-income farmers in the Philippines

Shively, Gerald

doi:10.1016/s0169-5150(97)00023-6

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“…The available farm area is positively related to farmer's decision to adopt cropping systems that can help to mitigate climate change. This finding can be explained by the fact that multiple cropping systems such as crop associations and rotations require that farmers possess larger farm size, as a large farm size may facilitate longer rotations (Shively, 1997). This finding is in line with some earlier studies on innovation adoption that predicted higher adoption rate on large farms (Feder & O'Mara, 1981;Feder et al, 1985;Shively, 1997).…”

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“…This finding can be explained by the fact that multiple cropping systems such as crop associations and rotations require that farmers possess larger farm size, as a large farm size may facilitate longer rotations (Shively, 1997). This finding is in line with some earlier studies on innovation adoption that predicted higher adoption rate on large farms (Feder & O'Mara, 1981;Feder et al, 1985;Shively, 1997). For example the study by Scherr (1995) revealed higher adoption rates for agroforestry on large farms.…”

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Drivers of Multiple Cropping-Systems as Adaptive Strategy to Climate Change in Central-Benin (West Africa)

Degla¹,

Adekambi²,

Adanhoussode³

2016

JAS

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Climate change is currently one of the most important global environmental issues that negatively affect agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. This importance has resulted in a great interest to understand both the farmers' perception of and adaptation to observed climate change. A good number of previous studies did explicitly focus on several adaptation strategies. Nevertheless, a better understanding of the socio-economic drivers underlying specific adaptive measures to climate change is crucial to inform specific adaptation components that will fall into a wider adaptation plan. In this respect, the present study focuses on the use of multiple cropping systems consisting of growing two or more crops on the same field either at the same time or one after another as climate change adaptation strategy. Accordingly, this paper examines different strategies commonly used to intensify agricultural production in tropical agriculture. These include crop rotation and association in the center of Benin.Data were collected in central Benin through interviews with 80 farmers selected by using a multistage random sampling technique. Data analysis was carried-out by using descriptive statistics and a Probit regression. The results showed that the major drivers of multiple cropping systems as adaptive strategy to climate change include contacts with extension services, education level, and farm size. Major constraints to the use of multiple cropping systems are gender, adult literacy, perception of adaptation to climate change, experience with climate change impacts, and farmer location. Policy options should include, among others, production of information related to impacts of climate change and their dissemination through formal services such as extension services; identification of potential ways to greatly improve returns on extra agricultural activities, and investigating on the effects of past adoption strategies on the different cropping systems.

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Drivers of Multiple Cropping-Systems as Adaptive Strategy to Climate Change in Central-Benin (West Africa)

Degla¹,

Adekambi²,

Adanhoussode³

2016

JAS

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“…The stock of soil available to a farmer is essentially an economic asset that can be exploited through cultivation to yield a stream of present and future income (Barbier 1990). Often, the return for practicing soil conservation can be long in coming, a feature that helps explain low adoption rates (Shively 1997). However, delays in payback do not completely explain low rates of investment, even if subjective discount rates are high.…”

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Risk preferences as determinants of soil conservation decisions in Ethiopia

Teklewold¹,

Köhlin²

2011

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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Soil degradation is one of the most serious environmental problems in the highlands of Ethiopia. The prevalence of traditional agricultural land use and the absence of appropriate resource management often result in the degradation of natural soil fertility. This has important implications for soil productivity, household food security, and poverty. Given the extreme vulnerability of farmers in this area, we hypothesized that farmers' risk preferences might affect the sustainability of resource use. This study presents experimental results on the willingness of farmers to take risks and relates the subjective risk preferences to actual soil conservation decisions. The study looked at a random sample of 143 households with 597 farming plots. We found that a high degree of risk aversion significantly decreases the probability of adopting soil conservation. This implies that reducing farmers' risk exposure could promote soil conservation practices and thus more sustainable natural resource management. This might be achieved by improving tenure security, promoting access to extension services and education, and developing income-generating off-farm activities.

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“…Las investigaciones que analizan la adopción de medidas de conservación de suelos a través de modelos probit y logit (Shively, 1997;Shiferaw y Holden 1998, Lucila et al 1999, o que abordan, a nivel descriptivo, la adopción de medidas de conservación del suelo con características históricas y culturales de los asentamientos agrícolas (Walters et al, 1999), o a través de técnicas multivariantes discriminantes (Earle et al 1979).…”

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Análisis económico de la erosión del suelo: Valoración de los efectos externos en la cuenca del Alto Genil

Colombo

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2011

EARN

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RESUMEN:El presente trabajo trata de evaluar los efectos externos de la erosión del suelo mediante el uso del método del Experimento de Elección (EE). Tras una breve revisión de la literatura socioeconó-mica sobre el problema de la erosión y de los métodos empleados para evaluar sus efectos, se describe una aplicación a la evaluación de los efectos externos de la erosión del suelo en la cuenca del Alto Genil (Granada). El empleo del método del EE permite el cálculo de los valores asociados a los impactos más importantes de la erosión, así como proporcionar al administrador público información útil para la determinación de prioridades de gestión en el contexto de la planificación territorial. También se estima la variación de bienestar que la aplicación de políticas de reducción de la erosión del suelo, y sus efectos externos, induce en los ciudadanos. Dichas valoraciones se compararán con las actuales ayudas que la Consejería de Agricultura y Pesca de la Junta de Andalucía reconoce a los agricultores que adoptan méto-dos de producción agraria de conservación del suelo. PALABRAS CLAVE:Valoración monetaria, Externalidades, Experimento de Elección, Erosión. Códigos JEL: Q0.Economic analysis of soil erosion: the off-site effects evaluation in the Genil basin ABSTRACT: The paper presents the economic evaluation of the soil erosion off-farm effects by means of the Choice Experiment method. After a review of the main studies that consider, under a socio-economic point of view, the soil erosion problem an application of the choice experiment to monetary evalua-

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Consumption risk, farm characteristics, and soil conservation adoption among low-income farmers in the Philippines

Cited by 61 publications

References 22 publications

Drivers of Multiple Cropping-Systems as Adaptive Strategy to Climate Change in Central-Benin (West Africa)

Drivers of Multiple Cropping-Systems as Adaptive Strategy to Climate Change in Central-Benin (West Africa)

Risk preferences as determinants of soil conservation decisions in Ethiopia

Análisis económico de la erosión del suelo: Valoración de los efectos externos en la cuenca del Alto Genil

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