Household Level Determinants of Agroforestry Practices Adoption in Rural Ethiopia

被引:46
作者
Beyene, Abebe D. [1 ]
Mekonnen, Alemu [2 ]
Randall, Bluffstone [3 ]
Deribe, Rahel [4 ]
机构
[1] Ethiopian Dev Res Inst, Environm & Climate Res Ctr ECRC, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
[2] Addis Ababa Univ, Dept Econ, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
[3] Portland State Univ, Dept Econ, Portland, OR 97207 USA
[4] Univ Bonn, ZEF Ctr Dev Res, Bonn, Germany
关键词
Adoption; intensity; agroforestry technologies; tenure insecurity; household; Heckman; rural Ethiopia; TENURE SECURITY; LAND-TENURE; TECHNOLOGY; FARMERS; INVESTMENT; ADAPTATION; FOREST;
D O I
10.1080/14728028.2019.1620137
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Agroforestry is increasingly promoted as an economically and environmentally sustainable land use system. Understanding factors affecting smallholder farmers' decision to adopt agroforestry technologies and intensity of adoption is thus considered critical for the development of agroforestry. This research attempts to analyze and understand why agroforestry technologies are not being taken up more by examining household level factors that could influence the adoption of agroforestry technologies. We estimate Heckman selection model using household level data collected from different regions of rural Ethiopia. Our findings show that the age of the household head, land size, tenure insecurity, and proximity to towns have a significant effect on the probability of adopting. They also show that, once adoption decision had been taken, the area devoted to agroforestry technologies is influenced by household characteristics such as gender of the household head, land size, and proximity to towns. We also identify important measures that could help promoting agroforestry technologies in rural Ethiopia. Our findings may also provide scientific evidence for other similar countries whose livelihood depends mainly on agriculture and natural resources such as forests.
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页码:194 / 213
页数:20
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