| 来源类型 | Article and other Publication |
| 规范类型 | 其他 |
| Differential impacts of conservation agriculture technology options on household income in sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Mockshell, Jonathan; Justice A. Tambo | |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 摘要 | Conservation agriculture (CA), which consists of minimum soil disturbance, crop residue retention and crop rotation, is claimed to generate a number of agronomic, economic and environmental benefits. Recognising these potential benefits, CA is widely promoted in efforts towards sustainable agricultural intensification. However, there has been an intense debate about its suitability in smallholder farming environments, and this has sti-mulated a growing interest in the adoption and impacts of CA technologies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using survey data from maize-growing households in nine SSA countries, this paper seeks to add to the extant literature by examining the drivers and welfare impacts of individual and combined implementation of the three com-ponents of CA. We employ inverse-probability-weighting regression-adjustment and propensity score matching with multiple treatment estimators. Overall, results show that adoption of a CA technology significantly in-creases total household income and income per adult equivalent. Disaggregating the CA components, we find that adoption of the components in combination is associated with larger income gains than when the com-ponents are adopted in isolation, and the largest effect is achieved when households implement the three practices jointly. Nevertheless, implementation of the full CA package among the sampled households is very low, with an average adoption rate of 8%. We identify key factors that might spur increased adoption, including education, secure land rights, and access to institutional support services. Results further show that the de-terminants and impacts of the CA components vary considerably among the study countries, suggesting location specificity of CA. Our results are consistent across alternative estimators. |
| URL | https://www.die-gdi.de/en/others-publications/article/differential-impacts-of-conservation-agriculture-technology-options-on-household-income-in-sub-saharan-africa-1/ |
| 来源智库 | German Development Institute (Germany) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/499310 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Mockshell, Jonathan,Justice A. Tambo. Differential impacts of conservation agriculture technology options on household income in sub-Saharan Africa. |
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