Adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and food security threats: Effects of land tenure in Zambia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.021" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.021</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.021" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.021</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Adoption of sustainable agricultural practices and food security threats: Effects of land tenure in Zambia

Original language description

Among environmental challenges, sustainable agricultural practices (SAP) are imperative to attain better agricultural productivity and food security status of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa, including in Zambia. To understand the adoption behavior of SAP of Zambian farmers in more depth, the study determines factors that influence the adoption probability of SAP. In particular, we study the effect of land tenure. Furthermore, the study tests the association of SAP use and food security of smallholder households. Data collection involved a structured questionnaire survey that was conducted in southern Zambia in 2016. The sample consisted of 400 households, 200 with customary and 200 with statutory land tenure. The probit regression analysis results indicate that land ownership influences the adoption of SAP in our sample. Households with customary land tenure had a 17,4%, 17,2% and 9,1% lower probability to adopt crop diversification, agroforestry and planting basins, respectively, than house

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40500 - Other agricultural sciences

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Land Use Policy

ISSN

0264-8377

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

N

Issue of the periodical within the volume

78

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

532-538

UT code for WoS article

000449447900049

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85050073060