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Uptake of Soil and Water Conservation Technologies in West Africa: A Case Study of the Office de la Haute Vallée du Niger (OHVN) in Mali

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Title Uptake of Soil and Water Conservation Technologies in West Africa: A Case Study of the Office de la Haute Vallée du Niger (OHVN) in Mali
 
Creator Loeffen, M
Ndjeunga, J
Kelly, V
Sylla, M L
Traore, B
Tessougue, M
 
Subject Others
 
Description This report provides a descriptive analysis of the uptake of Soil and Water Conservation
(S&WC) technologies based on a survey undertaken in a degraded area of Mali, the Office de
la Haute Valeé du Niger (OHVN). A total of 531 rural households were interviewed from 26
villages, with the objective of characterizing, identifying and evaluating potential environmental,
socioeconomic, institutional and technological constraints to uptake of S&WC technologies,
comparing users and nonusers of the technologies at the village, household and plot levels. The
study revealed that 40% of the households were using S&WC technologies in the OHVN zone.
A range of factors such as endowments in livelihood assets and transforming structures such
as markets and institutions, access to roads, suitability of soil for cotton, prevalence of input
product markets, access to fertilizers on credit and others were the drivers of uptake. Adoption
was concentrated in the southern part of the OHVN zone, where OHVN’s Natural Resource
Management Program had been involved in disseminating technologies. At the household level,
users of S&WC technologies were found to have more livelihood assets than nonusers. Most
farmers reported high productivity gains ranging from 20% to 60% from these technologies.
Overall, 75% of the user households were reported to have accumulated more assets and become
more food secure.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2008
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1319/1/42_2008_WPS25_uptake_of_s%26w.pdf
Loeffen, M and Ndjeunga, J and Kelly, V and Sylla, M L and Traore, B and Tessougue, M (2008) Uptake of Soil and Water Conservation Technologies in West Africa: A Case Study of the Office de la Haute Vallée du Niger (OHVN) in Mali. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.