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Stimulating smallholder investment in sustainable land management: Overcoming market, policy and institutional challenges

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/10589/
 
Title Stimulating smallholder investment in sustainable land management: Overcoming market, policy and institutional challenges
 
Creator Shiferaw, B
Okello, J
 
Subject Smallholder Farmers
Smallholder Agriculture
 
Description The degradation of natural resources raises a variety of issues related to rural livelihoods, poverty,
distribution of income and inter-generational equity. Land degradation also deprives smallholders
and particularly the poor of a key resource and diminishes capacity to undertake critical
investments, possibly leading to depletion of buffer stocks and increased vulnerability. These
problems are most pronounced in areas with widespread poverty and fragile ecosystems such as
arid, semi-arid and highland regions (Pender and Hazell, 2000; Shiferaw and Bantilan, 2004). In
such areas sustainable intensification of agriculture through land conservation and management is
a critical policy challenge...
 
Publisher Routledge
 
Contributor Köhlin, G
Bluffstone, R
 
Date 2011
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10589/1/Challenges%20of%20Adoption%20and%20Adaptive%20Management.pdf
Shiferaw, B and Okello, J (2011) Stimulating smallholder investment in sustainable land management: Overcoming market, policy and institutional challenges. In: . Agricultural Investment and Productivity: Building Sustainability in East Africa. Routledge. ISBN 9781138103849 (Submitted)