Assessing the influence of conservation agriculture on household wellbeing and Maize Marketing in Tete and Manica, Mozambique

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2013

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In recent years there has been a movement on the part of farmers, governments, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), and the international community to promote the use of sustainable agricultural practices. In Sub-Saharan Africa, this has translated into programs with the expressed aim of increasing smallholder farmer adoption rates of conservation agriculture (CA). This thesis contributes to the analysis of the adoption of conservation agriculture by smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa by assessing the economic status of CA adopters in the providences of Manica and Tete, Mozambique.

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Small-scale farming, Conservation agriculture, Sustainable agriculture, Economic modeling and analysis, Economic impacts, Farm/Enterprise Scale

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MS thesis. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee.