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Title Factors Influencing the Adoption of Water Conservation Technologies by Smallholder Farmer Households in Tanzania
Full text http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/22605; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/21881
Date 2019
Author(s) Jha, Srijna; Kaechele, Harald; Sieber, Stefan
Abstract In Tanzania, the increasing population coupled with climate change amplifies issues of food insecurity and negatively impacts the livelihoods of smallholder farmer households. To address these issues a range of water conservation techniques (WCTs) have been useful. However, the adoption of these WCTs in Tanzania has been limited due to many reasons. With the objective to better understand and identify the factors that significantly influence the adoption of WCTs in Tanzania, the study uses survey data from 701 smallholder farmer households and a bivariate logistic regression, to provide, for the first time, a comprehensive model for the adoption of WCTs in Tanzania that includes a range of individual, household, socio-economic, and farmer perception related variables (factors). The evaluation shows that 120 farmers (17.12%) adopted WCTs and finds the farmer perceptions of rainfall instability, household wealth, and food security to be crucial. The results suggest that policy interventions should encourage conservation behavior (especially when the rainfall is perceived to be uncertain), emphasize the economic and food security-related benefits of adopting WCTs, include strategies that make adoption of WCTs attractive to female-led households, attempt to reach greater number of farmers via social networks and provide better access to public funds for farmers. - Peer Reviewed
Subject(s) decision-making; logit regression; farmer perceptions; social networks; public funds; water conservation adoption; 690 Hausbau, Bauhandwerk; ddc:690
Language eng
Publisher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Type of publication article; doc-type:article; publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Rights (CC BY 4.0) Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Identifier urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22605-4; 10.3390/w11122640; 2073-4441
Repository Berlin - Humboldt University of Berlin
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