Farmer perceptions in Mashonaland East Province on Zimbabwe’s agricultural land rental policy

Tatsvarei, Simbarashe; Mushunje, Abbyssinia; Matsvai, Simon; Ngarava, Saul

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.015

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“…These on-farm profiles found are more varied than those found by Antwi-Agyei et al (2015) study in Ghana. The landlords and tenant farmers generally has the same perception towards the tenancy system, in contrary with the study by Tatsvarei (2018) in Zimbabwe. The correlation of these profiles forms the tenancy system.…”

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Types of Agriculture Land Tenancy System in Demak District, Demak Regency

Mouris

Setiawan

2019

JP2WD

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Agricultural tenancy system is a farmland management system commonly used by farmers. This system poses as a provider for rural community’s job opportunities and occupations. The purpose of this research is to identify types of tenancy system and the on-farm profiles in Demak District, Demak Regency. The connection between farmlands and these profiles may become a ground for mutual arrangement with the government in order to protect the existence of farmlands. The result of survey to 238 respondents in the district identified there are at least four types of tenancy system that exist in Demak District society, namely: (1) basic tenancy system, (2) partial tenancy system, (3) farm bussiness tenancy system, and (4) managerial tenancy system. Furthermore, based on age characteristics and farming experience data, it is identified that there are possibilities of scarcity in farming profiles of the next generation, which may threat the existence of farmlands. Author argued that the scarcity may be due to job diversification in rural areas. This research suggests a new approach to implement the agricultural land protection policy by modifying one of the existing agricultural land tenancy systems into a contract based system with the government. The contract is aimed to formalize and bind on-farm profiles with their farmland, as well as to limit the number of them. Thus, other productive labor force may be shifted to another field for regional economic development.

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Types of Agriculture Land Tenancy System in Demak District, Demak Regency

Mouris

Setiawan

2019

JP2WD

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“…Compared with previous studies [17,18,30,31,66], the main contribution of this study is to investigate the causal chain between human activity and land resources from the micro-perspective, using an inter-disciplinary approach that combines the natural and social sciences. Specifically, we used a cross-sectional dataset of soil sampling and a farm survey, and constructed linkages between the spatial characteristics of farmers' behaviors and the spatial features of farmland quality change, in order to obtain more accurate and convincing results.…”

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“…In addition, cognitive behavioral theory indicates that humans' awareness, perceptions, and behaviors are interconnected. Specifically, land protection awareness and land use behavior are closely linked and interrelated [17,18]. For example, farmers with strong land protection awareness…”

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Understanding Farmers’ Perceptions and Behaviors towards Farmland Quality Change in Northeast China: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Liu

Luo

2018

Sustainability

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Farmland protection is the most important land science research issue in developing countries, especially in China, due to serious land degradation. This paper aimed to reveal the causal chain among driving factors, farmers' land protection perceptions, behavioral responses, and land quality change by applying a structural equation model (SEM), based on a cross-sectional dataset of 238 households surveyed, and matched plot soil sample results in the Sujiatun District, in Liaoning province, China. The results show that, compared to internal factors, external factors play more important roles in shaping farmers' land protection awareness which subsequently transfer into land protection behaviors. Various land use behaviors lead to different impacts on land quality, in which the crop planting structure and land input density have dominant effects on changes in the soil nutrient content. The results imply that a stable and reasonable price mechanism for agricultural inputs and outputs is meaningful to land protection. Moderate land circulation would help reduce land fragmentation, develop agricultural modernization, improve production efficiency, and achieve economies of scale. In addition, knowledge, training and environmental policy information on farmland protection play key roles in land conservation activities. These main results have important implications for policymakers with regard to promoting land protection activities, alleviating land resource and environmental pressures, and thus achieving the goal of sustainable land use.Sustainability 2018, 10, 3345 2 of 17 will probably adopt some land conservation practices, in terms of using organic fertilizer and formula fertilizer, and these behaviors may further change their perspectives. Therefore, there are important theoretical and practical reasons for investigating the interrelations among farmers' land protection perceptions, behaviors and farmland quality changes from a microcosmic perspective.Some studies have focused on farmers' willingness to protect their farmland, and the influencing factors [19,20]. The characteristics of farm households and farmlands, as well as land protection policies, are closely related to farmers' perceptions of land protection [7,21,22]. Farmers' age and education positively affect land protection awareness, indicating that older farmers with higher levels of education are more likely to form stronger land protection intentions [23]. A dependence on agricultural income plays a promoting role in farmers' willingness towards land protection [24,25]. A sense of moral responsibility also has a positive effect on land protection cognition. Specifically, farmers are more willing to implement farmland conservation, due to a stronger sense of moral responsibility, implying that land protection policy should be focused on motivating farmers' sense of social responsibility [26]. However, land fragmentation seriously weakens farmers' enthusiasm to protect their farmland [27].According to the theory of planned behavior and relevant empir...

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“…Market utilisation can be explained through the expected utility theory. Utility refers to the attractiveness of an economic opportunity as well as its associated risk [15]. Expected utility theory combines two notions: personal utility function as well as the associated distribution function [16].…”

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Market Awareness and Participation for Cattle Farmers in the Kaonafatso ya Dikgomo (KyD) Scheme in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

Ngarava

Mushunje

2019

Agriculture

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The objective of the study was to outline the determinants of market awareness and participation in the Kaonafatso ya Dikgomo (KyD) scheme in South Africa. The study utilised a cross-sectional survey of a randomly selected sample of 116 KyD farmers in KwaZulu-Natal Province. A Logit model was used to analyse the data. The results show that more farmers are aware of farmgate market channels, but however, they tended to utilise auction market channels. Furthermore, gender, marital status, educational level, employment status, farm income, source of income, herd size, labour and training were significant variables in the awareness and use of butcheries, auctions and farm gate markets. The study concludes that the scheme is particularly effective in influencing commercialisation through utilisation of more lucrative market channels such as auctions. Furthermore, socio-economic factors had a bearing on the awareness and use of marketing channels for smallholder farmers in the KyD scheme. Labour was particularly significant across butchery, auction and farm gate market channels. The study recommends that the scheme needs to improve awareness and use of market channels through utilisation of information platforms such as radio, television and direct communication though mobile phones. Furthermore, extension should assist farmers not only in awareness of markets, but also in the utilisation of those markets.

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Farmer perceptions in Mashonaland East Province on Zimbabwe’s agricultural land rental policy

Cited by 14 publications

References 8 publications

Types of Agriculture Land Tenancy System in Demak District, Demak Regency

Types of Agriculture Land Tenancy System in Demak District, Demak Regency

Understanding Farmers’ Perceptions and Behaviors towards Farmland Quality Change in Northeast China: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Market Awareness and Participation for Cattle Farmers in the Kaonafatso ya Dikgomo (KyD) Scheme in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa

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