Smallholder farmers' motivations for using Conservation Agriculture and the roles of yield, labour and soil fertility in decision making

Lalani, Baqir; Dorward, Peter; Holloway, Garth; Wauters, Erwin

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2016.04.002

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“…However, in terms of wealth status, a majority of SF were intermediate, while the majority of NSF was better-off. Similarly, Lalani et al (2016) found that poor farmers have highest intentions to use conservation agriculture. Similarly, SF have a smaller family size (5 persons) and relatively a lower available family labour for farming activities (4 persons) compared to the NSF.…”

Section: Farmer Socio-cultural Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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Kessler

Oosterveer

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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: Farmer Socio-cultural Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…Research that delves deeper into the pathways between beliefs and pro-environmental practices among farmers, including studies utilizing the expectancy-value model [18], the theory of planned behaviour [19], and the Values-Beliefs-Norms theory [20], confirm a more complex picture of farmer decision making [21][22][23]. One overarching implication of this research is that, counter to many popular preconceptions, not all or even many farmers are purely rational utility maximizers [24][25][26].…”

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Just don’t call it climate change: climate-skeptic farmer adoption of climate-mitigative practices

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Rollins

Lefsrud

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Despite low levels of agreement that climate change is caused primarily by humans, respondents to a survey of climate change beliefs and adoption of climate-mitigative practices among beef and grain producers in Alberta, Canada, indicate a high level of adoption of several agricultural practices with climate-mitigative benefits. Respondents' motivations for adoption of climate-mitigative practices rarely include the belief that climate change is caused by humans, but rather expectations for economic benefits, improvements in soil quality, and biodiversity, among other things. The strongest predictor of mitigative practice adoption is a learning orientation, defined as valuing improvement, research, learning, and innovation, followed by a conservation orientation that values land stewardship. Predictors are not consistent across practices; however, in some but not all cases adoption is predicted by climate change norms, or assumption of personal responsibility to address climate change, and other predictors vary by practice as well.

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“…However, in terms of wealth status, a majority of SF were intermediate, while the majority of NSF was better-off. Similarly, Lalani et al (2016) found that poor farmers have highest intentions to use conservation agriculture. Similarly, SF have a smaller family size (5 persons) and relatively a lower available family labor for farming activities (4 persons) compared to the NSF.…”

Section: Farmer Socio-cultural Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring the scaling-up of sustainable land management in the Central highlands of Ethiopia

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Smallholder farmers' motivations for using Conservation Agriculture and the roles of yield, labour and soil fertility in decision making

Cited by 156 publications

References 50 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

Just don’t call it climate change: climate-skeptic farmer adoption of climate-mitigative practices

Exploring the scaling-up of sustainable land management in the Central highlands of Ethiopia

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