Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi
Land degradation and soil erosion have emerged as serious challenges to smallholder farmers throughout southern Africa. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable package of agricultural practices. Despite the many potential benefits of CA, however,...
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| author | Ward, Patrick S. Bell, Andrew R. Droppelmann, Klaus Benton, Tim |
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| description | Land degradation and soil erosion have emerged as serious challenges to smallholder farmers throughout southern Africa. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable package of agricultural practices. Despite the many potential benefits of CA, however, adoption remains low. Yet relatively little is known about the decision-making process in choosing to adopt CA. This article attempts to fill this important knowledge gap by studying CA adoption in southern Malawi. Unlike what is implicitly assumed when these packages of practices are introduced, farmers view adoption as a series of independent decisions rather than a single decision. Yet the adoption decisions are not wholly independent. We find strong evidence of interrelated decisions, particularly among mulching crop residues and practicing zero tillage, suggesting that mulching residues and intercropping or rotating with legumes introduces a multiplier effect on the adoption of zero tillage. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1485582025-11-06T06:32:24Z Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi Ward, Patrick S. Bell, Andrew R. Droppelmann, Klaus Benton, Tim land management technology adoption sustainability conservation agriculture smallholders land use land degradation probit analysis soil erosion zero tillage Land degradation and soil erosion have emerged as serious challenges to smallholder farmers throughout southern Africa. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable package of agricultural practices. Despite the many potential benefits of CA, however, adoption remains low. Yet relatively little is known about the decision-making process in choosing to adopt CA. This article attempts to fill this important knowledge gap by studying CA adoption in southern Malawi. Unlike what is implicitly assumed when these packages of practices are introduced, farmers view adoption as a series of independent decisions rather than a single decision. Yet the adoption decisions are not wholly independent. We find strong evidence of interrelated decisions, particularly among mulching crop residues and practicing zero tillage, suggesting that mulching residues and intercropping or rotating with legumes introduces a multiplier effect on the adoption of zero tillage. 2016-05-13 2024-06-21T09:25:02Z 2024-06-21T09:25:02Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148558 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149502 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148443 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146215 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ward, Patrick S.; Bell, Andrew R.; Droppelmann, Klaus; and Benton, Tim. 2016. Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1530. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148558 |
| spellingShingle | land management technology adoption sustainability conservation agriculture smallholders land use land degradation probit analysis soil erosion zero tillage Ward, Patrick S. Bell, Andrew R. Droppelmann, Klaus Benton, Tim Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi |
| title | Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi |
| title_full | Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi |
| title_fullStr | Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi |
| title_short | Understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture: Modeling a case study in Malawi |
| title_sort | understanding compliance in programs promoting conservation agriculture modeling a case study in malawi |
| topic | land management technology adoption sustainability conservation agriculture smallholders land use land degradation probit analysis soil erosion zero tillage |
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