Communication of Improved Farm Practices to Rural Women Farmers in Benue State, Nigeria

Omoregbee, Friday E

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“…The factors include household preferences, resource endowments, market incentives, biophysical factors and risk and uncertainty. Furthermore, studies have shown that the age of the household head, education level, gender, household wealth, household size, farmland size and access to agricultural inputs all influence farmers’ adoption of agroforestry technologies (Omuregbee, 1998; Ndayambaje, 2013). In a study of patterns of tree adoption on farms in Ethiopia, Iiyama et al (2017) found that favorable climatic conditions and institutional arrangements to control free grazing influence adoption.…”

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Drivers of farmers’ decisions to adopt agroforestry: Evidence from the Sudanian savanna zone, Burkina Faso

Sanou

Savadogo²,

Ezebilo³

et al. 2017

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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In most developing countries, there has been a long-standing conflict of interest between using land for agriculture and the conservation of biodiversity. This paper reports on a study of factors influencing farmers’ decisions to integrate trees into their agricultural practice. We also discuss the possibility of protecting and managing planted and naturally regenerating trees on farmland in order to restore degraded land and improve biodiversity. Data were collected from interviews with farmers in the Center-West region of Burkina Faso and analyzed using Principal Component Analysis, multiple linear regression and binary logistic regression. The results show that farmers’ decisions to incorporate trees into their farmland were mainly influenced by silvicultural knowledge and skills, participation in farmers’ groups or other social organizations with an interest in tree conservation, the social value of biodiversity in the rural landscape, and the perceived economic benefits of trees on farmland. The most important factors associated with variation in levels of motivation to conserve trees on farms included household wealth, gender, age, education level, marital status, residence status, farmland size, household size and technical support. We conclude that an agroforestry project will be more successful if the local biophysical conditions and diversity of smallholder socio-economic characteristics and their perceptions, needs and preferences are considered in its design. There is also an immediate need for coordinated development of information and training to raise local community awareness of the potential of agroforestry as well as to disseminate information about adding value to tree products in order to encourage farmers to protect on-farm trees.

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Drivers of farmers’ decisions to adopt agroforestry: Evidence from the Sudanian savanna zone, Burkina Faso

Sanou

Savadogo²,

Ezebilo³

et al. 2017

Renew. Agric. Food Syst.

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“…Past studies (Masangano, 1996;Omuregbee, 1998) have identified some of the farmers' characteristics that may influence adoption of agroforestry technologies. These include the age, gender, and education level of the household head; wealth, family size, group membership, and farm resources (such as farm size, land tenure, credit or other inputs, and availability of labor).…”

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Adoption of On-Farm Tree Planting in Kibaale District, Western Uganda

Kakuru

Doreen

Wilson

2013

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

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Using logistic and multiple regression analyses, this article examines the socioeconomic factors that influence farmers' decisions to adopt on-farm tree planting, one of the agroforestry techniques promoted by government agencies and research institutions for use in the farming systems of Uganda. A household survey involving 200 farmers was carried out in the Subcounties of Kabamba, Mugarama, Kagadi, and Kiryanga in Kibaale District, westernUganda. From the analyses, we found out that a farmer's decision to adopt on-farm tree planting is influenced by household and field characteristics. Gender, tree tenure security, availability of seed and supply, guidance by extension and research Institutions, size of landholding per household, fuelwood scarcity, and main source of family income were the factors that significantly influenced the decision to adopt on-farm tree planting. We recommended that in order to promote increased adoption of on-farm tree planting, appropriate socioeconomic characterization should be explored in order to target areas with better adoption potential for optimal realization of the intended objectives by government agencies and research institutions.

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“…, Ayinde et al, (2010), Namwata et al, (2010), Odoemenem and Obinne (2010), Matata et al, (2010), Boahene et al, (1999), and Omoregbee (1998).…”

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Adoption and Impact of the Improved Fallow Technique on Cotton Productivity and Income in Zambia

Jama¹,

Kuntashula²,

Samboko³

2019

SAR

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An improved fallow is a soil fertility agroforestry technique that has commonly been used in the staple maize production systems of Zambia and sub-Saharan Africa. Several studies have assessed the adoption and impact of the improved fallow on maize production. Generally, it has been observed that though the improved fallow does increase maize yields, its efficacy on welfare in terms of increased income is low. The use of the technique on cash crops that could significantly contribute to household welfare has rarely been investigated. This study assessed the factors affecting the adoption and impact of improved fallows on a commonly grown cash crop, cotton, in the cotton growing provinces of Zambia. The study used a sub sample (N=1206) of the nationally representative 2014/15 Rural Agricultural Livelihoods Survey (RALS) data which was randomly collected by the Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI) and Central Statistical Office (CSO) of Zambia. The determinants of improved fallow adoption among the cotton farmers were examined through the use of the probit model while the impact of the technique on cotton production and income was evaluated by using the propensity score matching and the endogenous switching regression models. Among the socioeconomic factors significantly increasing the probability of improved fallow adoption included: increases in age, education level, and per capita productive assets of the farmer, in addition to the area under cotton production and the distance of the homestead to the market. Institutional factors found to increase the farmer’s likelihood of adopting the improved fallow in the cotton production systems included; farmer membership to a cooperative, receiving improved fallow seedlings from the government projects and having information on agroforestry tree species. On the other hand, an increase in land size per capita was found to negatively affect the likelihood of improved tree fallow adoption. Impact estimates showed significant cotton yield and income increases as a result of adopting the technique. The continuous provision of information on relatively new techniques such as the improved fallows preferably in farmer organized groups, and support towards the provision of the technique’s planting materials are some of the areas requiring government and NGOs attention. In addition, the study recommends that the farmers’ formal education level should be enhanced and that improved tree fallows should also be explicitly promoted on cash crops that have similar agronomic requirements to maize such as cotton.

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Communication of Improved Farm Practices to Rural Women Farmers in Benue State, Nigeria

Cited by 12 publications

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Drivers of farmers’ decisions to adopt agroforestry: Evidence from the Sudanian savanna zone, Burkina Faso

Drivers of farmers’ decisions to adopt agroforestry: Evidence from the Sudanian savanna zone, Burkina Faso

Adoption of On-Farm Tree Planting in Kibaale District, Western Uganda

Adoption and Impact of the Improved Fallow Technique on Cotton Productivity and Income in Zambia

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