期刊
LAND USE POLICY
卷 67, 期 -, 页码 57-64出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.05.024
关键词
Soil and water conservation; Multivariate probit; Drought; Land degradation; Upper Blue Nile Basin; Ethiopia
资金
- International Platform for Dryland Research and Education (IPDRE) of Tottori University
- JSPS KAKENHI [JP25257417]
Land degradation is a serious global problem because it leads to losses in food production and thus jeopardizes food security worldwide, particularly in developing countries. Despite numerous efforts to introduce sustainable land management (SLM) strategies and practices, their adoption by the primary target group, small-scale farmers in developing countries, has been [s]low. This study assesses the problem for the case of Ethiopia. The aim was to analyze the underlying factors that affect the adoption of SLM technologies in the Upper Blue Nile Basin. A detailed survey of 300 households and 1010 farm plots was conducted. Data were analyzed by using both descriptive and econometric analyses. Results show that farmers' adoption of interrelated SLM measures depended on a number of socio-economic and farm-related factors in combination with the characteristics of the technologies themselves. For example, plot size and the availability of labor, as well as the gender of the household head, affected which SLM technologies were adopted by certain types of households. The adoption of SLM measures depended on the adaptive economic capacity of the farmers, which can be quite diverse even within a small region and can differ from the adoption potential in other regions. Our results suggest that SLM policies and programs have to be individually designed for specific target groups within specific regions, which in turn means that one size fits all and across the board strategies - which are quite common in the field of SLM should be abandoned by development agencies and policymakers.
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