Policies and incentives for the adoption of improved fallows

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dc.contributor.authorPlace, Franken
dc.contributor.authorDewees, P.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialSub-Saharan Africaen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:10:16Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:10:16Zen
dc.date.issued1999en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractPolicies play a strong role in providing incentives and disincentives for farmers to invest in improved fallow systems along with other agroforestry systems. The aim of this paper is to raise a number of policy issues relevant to the adoption and impact of improved fallow systems and then to identify several options for policy makers to create a policy environment, which addresses market failures and alleviates disincentives for adoption of improved fallow systems. Policy issues are organized around six key criteria for adoption of any natural resource management practice by decision makers: (i) awareness of a natural resource problem, (ii) importance of the resource, (iii) willingness to invest (e.g., long-term tenure rights), (iv) capacity to invest (e.g., labor or land), (v) economic incentives (e.g., technical performance and attractive prices), and (vi) support services (e.g., extension or germplasm availability). The analysis across these themes is multi-scale, addressing issues at the plot, farm, community, and regional/national levels. Key areas for getting policies right with respect to improved fallows are mineral fertilizer policy, planting material production an distribution, and property rights to ensure that farmers can invest in fallows and reap the benefits.en
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dc.identifier1474en
dc.identifier.citationAgroforestry Systems 47(1/3): 323-343en
dc.identifier.issn0167-4366en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66229en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherNetherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishersen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishersen
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectAgroforestryen
dc.subjectEconomic growthen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectGovernment policyen
dc.subjectCash cropsen
dc.subjectEconomic incentivesen
dc.subjectHousehold decision makingen
dc.subjectMarketsen
dc.subjectSub-Saharan Africaen
dc.subjectProperty rightsen
dc.subjectEconomic incentivesen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scaleen
dc.titlePolicies and incentives for the adoption of improved fallowsen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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