Decisive key-factors influencing farm households' soil and water conservation investments

Kessler, Aad

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2005.07.005

Cited by 82 publications

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“…This implies that farmers who are willing and motivated to change and improve (dynamic farmers) are more likely to spontaneously implement stone bunds. This result is consistent with the findings by Kessler (2006) that dynamic farmers invest more in SWC practices. Following Kessler (2006), Quinn and Burbach (2010), Kessler et al (2016) and Ryan and Deci (2017), farmers' willingness and interest can be considered as a sign of intrinsic motivation, suggesting that farmers who implement stone bunds by their own initiative are more intrinsically motivated farmers.…”

Section: Key Differences Between Farmers: Pcasupporting

confidence: 83%

How farmers’ characteristics influence spontaneous spreading of stone bunds in the highlands of Ethiopia: a case study in the Girar Jarso woreda

Abi

Kessler

Oosterveer

et al. 2018

Environ Dev Sustain

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This study aims to identify key differences between farmers who spontaneously implement stone bunds (i.e. farmers implementing stone bunds by their own initiative) and farmers who do not. Data were collected in the Girar Jarso woreda in the central highlands of Ethiopia, through a household survey with 80 farmers: 40 with spontaneously implemented stone bunds and 40 without. Independent samples t test, principal component analysis and regression analysis were used to analyse the data. Results show that five key-factors explain differences between the two groups of farmers: (1) readiness to change, (2) available resources, (3) social capital, (4) type of family, and (5) commitment. These factors together explain 73% of the variance in the data set and show that particularly characteristics related to the farmer's intrinsic motivation play a crucial role to spontaneously implement and integrate stone bunds into the farming system. Furthermore, results show that young farmers are most committed to soil conservation: they are often intrinsically motivated dynamic farmers who are ready to change their future and improve productivity and food security. The study suggests that government extension programmes should therefore focus more on these young and dynamic farmers and foster their readiness to change. This implies that extension workers and government officials should better understand the crucial role of farmers' intrinsic motivation when dealing with sustainable land management, and also reformulate extension strategies and messages. This is particularly important when developing a scaling-up strategy that helps to sustainably increase agricultural production and achieve food security of small-holder farmers in Ethiopia.

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Section: Key Differences Between Farmers: Pcasupporting

confidence: 83%

How farmers’ characteristics influence spontaneous spreading of stone bunds in the highlands of Ethiopia: a case study in the Girar Jarso woreda

Abi

Kessler

Oosterveer

et al. 2018

Environ Dev Sustain

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“…Table IV shows that as the distance from home to paddy farms increases, the mean score of the SWC scale increases up to one kilometer, but it decreases thereafter (p<0.01). This is in contrast with the fi ndings of Nkegbe et al (2011), Bekele (2003, Tenge et al (2004), Kessler (2006), andAnley et al (2007) who found that the increase in distance from home to farm had a signifi cant negative effect on adoption of SWC practices. Amsalu and de Graaff (2006) and Amsalu and de Graaff (2007) found that distance from home to farm had no signifi cant effect on adoption of SWC practices.…”

Section: Use Of Soil and Water Conservation (Swc) Practicescontrasting

confidence: 56%

An examination of soil and water conservation practices in the paddy fields of Guilan province, Iran

Ashoori

Bagheri

Allahyari

et al. 2016

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (2016) ABSTRACTThis study examined the use of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices among rice farmers in Iran. A random sample of 400 rice paddy farmers in the Foumanat plain of Guilan province, who use SWC measures, was drawn from a population of 52 thousand farmers. A two-part questionnaire was used to examine the level of utilization of SWC practices and to profi le paddy farmers. Internal consistency was demonstrated with a coeffi cient alpha of 0.76, and the content and face validity of the instrument was confi rmed by a panel of soil and water experts. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used to analyze the data. Results of ANOVA indicated that the mean levels of SWC practices vary considerably at the 0.01 level of signifi cance by groups of age, education, non-agricultural income, production costs, yield, cultivated paddies and distance from home to the farm or to the main road. Similarly, signifi cant differences were observed by groups of family size, rice production, ownership of livestock and profi ts from rice production at 0.05 level. The levels of experience in agriculture and ownership of poultry were found to have no signifi cant effects on SWC practices.

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“…In factor analysis, the factor loading under each constraint (beta weight) represent a correlation of variables (constant area) to the identified constraint factor and has the same interpretation as any correlation coefficient (Chukwuone, Agwu&Ozor, 2006). However, only variables with loading of 0.30 and above at 10 percent overlapping matrix have high loading and were used in naming the factors (Kessler, 2006). The problems enumerated by the respondents were grouped using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) or factor loading with iteration and varimax rotation.…”

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On-Farm Income Diversification Decisions Among Rural Farm Households in Enugu State, Nigeria.

OsuaforOgonna¹,

NwankwoTemple²

2017

IJAR

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Decisive key-factors influencing farm households' soil and water conservation investments

Cited by 82 publications

References 14 publications

How farmers’ characteristics influence spontaneous spreading of stone bunds in the highlands of Ethiopia: a case study in the Girar Jarso woreda

How farmers’ characteristics influence spontaneous spreading of stone bunds in the highlands of Ethiopia: a case study in the Girar Jarso woreda

An examination of soil and water conservation practices in the paddy fields of Guilan province, Iran

On-Farm Income Diversification Decisions Among Rural Farm Households in Enugu State, Nigeria.

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