Understanding farmers' investments in sustainable land management in Burundi : A case-study in the provinces of Gitega and Muyinga

Autor: Marcel van Asseldonk, Aad Kessler, Marcien Ndagijimana
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Sustainable land management
Water en Landgebruik
Burundi
Land management
Soil Science
WASS
010501 environmental sciences
Development
01 natural sciences
multinomial regression
Water conservation
Soil
Soil
Water and Land Use
Bodem
Environmental Chemistry
Socioeconomics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
Multinomial logistic regression
sustainable land management
WIMEK
Descriptive statistics
business.industry
Water and Land Use
land degradation
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
farmers' investments
Bodemfysica en Landbeheer
Innovation- and Risk Management and Information Governance
Bodem
Water en Landgebruik
Soil Physics and Land Management
Geography
Agriculture
040103 agronomy & agriculture
Land degradation
0401 agriculture
forestry
and fisheries
Soil fertility
business
Zdroj: Land Degradation and Development, 30(4), 417-425
Land Degradation and Development 30 (2019) 4
ISSN: 1085-3278
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.3231
Popis: Understanding farmers' decision-making to tackle land degradation by means of sustainable land management (SLM) practices is essential for policy makers. The main objective of this study was to identify factors that influence farmers' investments in SLM. A survey was conducted in two provinces of Burundi (Gitega and Muyinga) among 160 households. Methods for data analysis comprised descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression. It was derived that both provinces experience severe land degradation, with soil erosion experienced by 88% of the farmers and soil fertility depletion by 92%. Furthermore, findings show that occurrence of soil erosion on the farm (p = 0.025), access to credit (p = 0.022), education level (p = 0.040), engagement of the household head in farming (p < 0.001), and age of the household head (p = 0.050) are significantly and positively associated with higher investments in SLM. Moreover, the findings reveal that the yearly costs per farmer associated to the SLM practices' implementation ranged from US$10.08 for soil and water conservation practices up to US$36.24 for organic fertilizers. Therefore, in order to foster SLM, we recommend policy makers in Burundi to improve access to credit markets in rural areas and enhance efforts to strengthen smallholders' skills, bringing as such more integrated and effective solutions to cope with land degradation problems.
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