The Adoption of Reduced Tillage: The Role of Human Capital and Other Variables

Rahm, Michael Robert; Huffman, Wallace E.

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“…The features of probit and logit models make interpretation of resulting coefficients unique from those obtained under an LPM. Of the two, probit models are often seen as better suited for experimental data [25] and do not enable precision robustness as they fail to allow the modeler to adjust for covariates. Logit models guarantee the estimated probability increases and never cross the range of 0 to 1, and are the most commonly and widely applied.…”

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Factors Affecting Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change Effects: A Farm Level Study in Bangladesh

Uddin

Bokelmann

Entsminger

2014

Climate

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Offering a case study of coastal Bangladesh, this study examines the adaptation of agriculturalists to degrading environmental conditions likely to be caused or exacerbated under global climate change. It examines four central components: (1) the rate of self-reported adoption of adaptive mechanisms (coping strategies) as a result of changes in climate; (2) ranking the potential coping strategies based on their perceived importance to agricultural enterprises; (3) identification the socio-economic factors associated with adoption of coping strategies, and (4) ranking potential constraints to adoption of coping strategies based on farmers' reporting on the degree to which they face these constraints. As a preliminary matter, this paper also reports on the perceptions of farmers in the study about their experiences with climatic change. The research area is comprised of three villages in the coastal region (Sathkhira district), a geographic region which climate change literature has highlighted as prone to accelerated degradation. One-hundred (100) farmers participated in the project's survey, from which the data was used to calculate weighted indexes for rankings and to perform logistic regression. The rankings, model results, and descriptive OPEN ACCESSClimate 2014, 2 224 statistics, are reported here. Results showed that a majority of the farmers self-identified as having engaged in adaptive behavior. Out of 14 adaptation strategies, irrigation ranked first among farm adaptive measures, while crop insurance has ranked as least utilized. The logit model explained that out of eight factors surveyed, age, education, family size, farm size, family income, and involvement in cooperatives were significantly related to self-reported adaptation. Despite different support and technological interventions being available, lack of available water, shortage of cultivable land, and unpredictable weather ranked highest as the respondent group's constraints to coping with environmental degradation and change effects. These results provide policy makers and development service providers with important insight, which can be used to better target interventions which build promote or facilitate the adoption of coping mechanisms with potential to build resiliency to changing climate and resulting environmental impacts.

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Factors Affecting Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change Effects: A Farm Level Study in Bangladesh

Uddin

Bokelmann

Entsminger

2014

Climate

263

122

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“…Information sources AC with further reference by the producers are the National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (INIFAP) and the International Center for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT). Rahm and Huffman (1984); Westra and Olson (1997) Cuadro 2. Medidas de centralidad y de actores clave por tipo de productores en la difusión de innovaciones.…”

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Adopción de prácticas de agricultura de conservación en Tlaxcala, México

Robles

Medel

Toledo

et al. 2017

Remexca

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ResumenLa agricultura de conservación (AC) es una combinación de medidas agronómicas, biológicas y mecánicas que mejoran la calidad del suelo. La AC es una innovación en el proceso de producción agrícola que integra las prácticas de mínima remoción del suelo, la cobertura permanente del suelo y la rotación de cultivos. La decisión de los agricultores en adoptar una nueva tecnología agrícola depende en gran medida del tipo de información que pueda obtener para tomar la decisión de adoptarla. El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar las fuentes de información que tienen los productores en Tlaxcala, México sobre las prácticas de AC. La información de campo integra 461 observaciones, las cuales se tipificaron en cuatro categorías de acuerdo a las prácticas de AC que realizan. Se emplearon indicadores de redes sociales e indicadores estadísticos para analizar cada categoría. Se observó que la fuente de conocimiento de los productores que realizan AC son principalmente proveedores de servicios profesionales (PSP) y centros de enseñanza e investigación (IE). Los productores que realizan las tres prácticas de AC son los de mayor capacidad de búsqueda de información, aunque no son los de mayores referencias como fuentes de información hacia otros productores. Una estrategia de AC deberá considerar que la difusión, más que la adopción en sí, es un aspecto central para incrementar el número de productores que adoptan a la AC. AbstractThe conservation agriculture (AC) is a combination of agronomic, biological and mechanical measures that improve soil quality. The AC is an innovation in the agricultural production process that integrates practices minimum soil disturbance, permanent soil cover and crop rotation. The decision of farmers to adopt new agricultural technology depends largely on the type of information you can get to make the decision to adopt it. The aim of this study was to analyze the sources of information that are producers in Tlaxcala, Mexico on AC practices. It integrates information field 461 observations, which were typed into four categories according to AC practices they perform. The indicators of social networks and statistical indicators were used to analyze each category. It was noted that the source of knowledge of producers who are mainly AC professional service providers (PSP) and teaching and research centers (IE). Producers who perform the three practices AC are the most searchable information, but are not older references as sources of information to other producers. AC strategy should consider that diffusion rather than adoption itself is central to increasing the number of producers who adopt the AC.Keywords: knowledge sources, network analysis, producers diffusers, technology transfer. IntroducciónLa agricultura de conservación (AC) es una alternativa para mejorar tanto la sostenibilidad como las exigencias de rentabilidad, riesgo y externalidades de los cultivos agrícolas. La sostenibilidad de la agricultura según Kassam (2009) esta cuestionada por el aumento en el costo de los alimentos ...

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“…Education level is expected to have a positive influence on the use of improved crop and livestock husbandry practices, because of the assumed link between education and knowledge (Rahm and Huffman, 1984;Knowler and Bradshaw, 2007).…”

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Strategies for improving water use efficiency of livestock production in rain-fed systems

Kebebe

Oosting

Haileslassie

et al. 2015

Animal

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Livestock production is a major consumer of fresh water, and the influence of livestock production on global fresh water resources is increasing because of the growing demand for livestock products. Increasing water use efficiency of livestock production, therefore, can contribute to the overall water use efficiency of agriculture. Previous studies have reported significant variation in livestock water productivity (LWP) within and among farming systems. Underlying causes of this variation in LWP require further investigation. The objective of this paper was to identify the factors that explain the variation in LWP within and among farming systems in Ethiopia. We quantified LWP for various farms in mixed-crop livestock systems and explored the effect of household demographic characteristics and farm assets on LWP using ANOVA and multilevel mixed-effect linear regression. We focused on water used to cultivate feeds on privately owned agricultural lands. There was a difference in LWP among farming systems and wealth categories. Better-off households followed by medium households had the highest LWP, whereas poor households had the lowest LWP. The variation in LWP among wealth categories could be explained by the differences in the ownership of livestock and availability of family labor. Regression results showed that the age of the household head, the size of the livestock holding and availability of family labor affected LWP positively. The results suggest that water use efficiency could be improved by alleviating resource constraints such as access to farm labor and livestock assets, oxen in particular.Keywords: mixed-crop livestock systems, livestock feed, water use efficiency, livestock water productivity ImplicationsLivestock production is one of the major consumers of fresh water, and the influence of livestock production on water resources is increasing because of the growing demand for livestock products. The results suggest that water use efficiency could be improved by alleviating resource constraints such as access to farm labor and livestock assets, oxen in particular. The findings of this research help in making decisions about where to invest scarce resources in order to improve water use efficiency in livestock production under rain-fed conditions.

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The Adoption of Reduced Tillage: The Role of Human Capital and Other Variables

Cited by 427 publications

References 8 publications

Factors Affecting Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change Effects: A Farm Level Study in Bangladesh

Factors Affecting Farmers’ Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change Effects: A Farm Level Study in Bangladesh

Adopción de prácticas de agricultura de conservación en Tlaxcala, México

Strategies for improving water use efficiency of livestock production in rain-fed systems

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