Understanding the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in Northern Argentina: What is the role of land tenure?

The Argentinian Dry Chaco has suffered from very high deforestation rates in the last decades, and forest degradation remains an important issue. This study examines the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices by smallholder households in the Chaco. Data for the study were collected from 392...

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Main Authors: Tschopp, Maurice, Graziano Ceddia, Michele, Inguaggiato, Carla, Bardsley, Nicholas Oliver, Hernandez, Hernan Hector
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Language:Inglés
Published: Elsevier 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/8085
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264837720301757
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105092
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author Tschopp, Maurice
Graziano Ceddia, Michele
Inguaggiato, Carla
Bardsley, Nicholas Oliver
Hernandez, Hernan Hector
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Graziano Ceddia, Michele
Hernandez, Hernan Hector
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Bardsley, Nicholas Oliver
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description The Argentinian Dry Chaco has suffered from very high deforestation rates in the last decades, and forest degradation remains an important issue. This study examines the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices by smallholder households in the Chaco. Data for the study were collected from 392 families in two municipalities of the Province of Salta. We used multivariate probit (MVP) models to assess land users’ decision to adopt three management practices. We show that socio-economic factors (household assets, number of animals), human and social capital (literacy, affiliation with a producer organization), as well as access to financial resources (credit) determine adoption. Secured land tenure also increases the likelihood of adoption, but not as much as we initially hypothesized. We discuss how certain specificities of the area, including difficulties accessing land titles and pressure from the agro-industry, as well as the characteristics of the resource itself – forest grazing areas, some shared by multiple families – might explain this unexpectedly low influence of land tenure on the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices.
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spelling INTA80852020-10-20T13:54:56Z Understanding the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in Northern Argentina: What is the role of land tenure? Tschopp, Maurice Graziano Ceddia, Michele Inguaggiato, Carla Bardsley, Nicholas Oliver Hernandez, Hernan Hector Sistemas Silvopascícolas Sostenibilidad Tenencia de la Tierra Silvopastoral Systems Sustainability Land Tenure Región Chaqueña The Argentinian Dry Chaco has suffered from very high deforestation rates in the last decades, and forest degradation remains an important issue. This study examines the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices by smallholder households in the Chaco. Data for the study were collected from 392 families in two municipalities of the Province of Salta. We used multivariate probit (MVP) models to assess land users’ decision to adopt three management practices. We show that socio-economic factors (household assets, number of animals), human and social capital (literacy, affiliation with a producer organization), as well as access to financial resources (credit) determine adoption. Secured land tenure also increases the likelihood of adoption, but not as much as we initially hypothesized. We discuss how certain specificities of the area, including difficulties accessing land titles and pressure from the agro-industry, as well as the characteristics of the resource itself – forest grazing areas, some shared by multiple families – might explain this unexpectedly low influence of land tenure on the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices. EEA Yuto Fil: Tschopp, Maurice. University of Bern. Centre for Development and Environment; Suiza Fil: Graziano Ceddia, Michele. University of Bern. Centre for Development and Environment; Suiza Fil: Inguaggiato, Carla. University of Bern. Centre for Development and Environment; Suiza Fil: Bardsley, Nicholas Oliver. University of Reading. School of Agriculture, Policy and Development; Gran Bretaña Fil: Hernandez, Hernan Hector. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Yuto. Agencia de Extensión Rural Tartagal; Argentina 2020-10-20T13:51:44Z 2020-10-20T13:51:44Z 2020 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/8085 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0264837720301757 0264-8377 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105092 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess application/pdf Elsevier Land Use Policy 99 : 105092 (December 2020)
spellingShingle Sistemas Silvopascícolas
Sostenibilidad
Tenencia de la Tierra
Silvopastoral Systems
Sustainability
Land Tenure
Región Chaqueña
Tschopp, Maurice
Graziano Ceddia, Michele
Inguaggiato, Carla
Bardsley, Nicholas Oliver
Hernandez, Hernan Hector
Understanding the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in Northern Argentina: What is the role of land tenure?
title Understanding the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in Northern Argentina: What is the role of land tenure?
title_full Understanding the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in Northern Argentina: What is the role of land tenure?
title_fullStr Understanding the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in Northern Argentina: What is the role of land tenure?
title_full_unstemmed Understanding the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in Northern Argentina: What is the role of land tenure?
title_short Understanding the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in Northern Argentina: What is the role of land tenure?
title_sort understanding the adoption of sustainable silvopastoral practices in northern argentina what is the role of land tenure
topic Sistemas Silvopascícolas
Sostenibilidad
Tenencia de la Tierra
Silvopastoral Systems
Sustainability
Land Tenure
Región Chaqueña
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/8085
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