Farmer nurseries as a catalyst for developing sustainable land use systems in southern Africa. Part A: Nursery productivity and organization

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dc.contributor.authorBöhringer, A.en
dc.contributor.authorAyuk, E.en
dc.contributor.authorKatanga, R.en
dc.contributor.authorRuvuga, S.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialShinyanga Regionen
dc.coverage.spatialTanzaniaen
dc.coverage.spatialEastern Provinceen
dc.coverage.spatialZambiaen
dc.coverage.spatialSouthern Regionen
dc.coverage.spatialMalawien
dc.coverage.temporal1998 - 2000en
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:08:23Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:08:23Zen
dc.date.issued2003en
dc.description.abstractTrees play a critical role in the development of sustainable land use systems in the southern Africa region, but access to tree germplasm is limited. It was hypothesized that facilitating the establishment of farmer nurseries would promote decentralized tree seedling production in an efficient way, while at the same time provide opportunities for building natural, human and social capital. A study was conducted in Malawi, Zambia and Tanzania over 2 years to analyze the productivity of farmer nurseries and their functions in sustainable development. With limited outside support, farmers produced an estimated 6.2 million tree seedlings from 1901 nurseries across the three study areas over two years. Productivity of nurseries depended greatly on access to scarce water sources during the dry season. Farmers located the majority of nurseries therefore in ecologically sensitive dambo locations and along riverbanks, both posing possible land use conflicts in the future due to increasing human populations. Farmers organized two types of nurseries, with group nurseries producing significantly fewer tree seedlings compared to individual nurseries. This was attributed to larger transaction costs associated with organization and capacity building of group nurseries. On the other hand, the success of individual nurseries appeared to depend on human and social "start-up" capital being provided by group nurseries through previous training. In the absence of rigorous valuation of the longer-term effects of both types of nurseries in building natural, human and social capital, it appears that both have a role to play in meeting local demand for tree seedlings. Results generally suggest that smallholder farmers can play a pivotal role in providing tree germplasm for the development of sustainable land use systems.en
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dc.identifier422en
dc.identifier.citationAgricultural Systems 77(3): 187-201en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0308-521X(02)00185-3en
dc.identifier.issn0308-521Xen
dc.identifier.other422_Farmer_nurseries_as_a_catalyst_for_develo.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65487en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherAmsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier Science B.V.en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2003 by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectEcosystem managementen
dc.subjectDeforestationen
dc.subjectSemiarid zonesen
dc.subjectHumid zonesen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.subjectGermplasmen
dc.subjectForest managementen
dc.subjectAfforestationen
dc.subjectForest ecosystemsen
dc.subjectModelingen
dc.subjectSustainable forestryen
dc.subjectForestryen
dc.subjectNatural resource managementen
dc.subjectNatural capitalen
dc.subjectNursery productivityen
dc.subjectHuman capitalen
dc.subjectSocial capitalen
dc.subjectTree germplasmen
dc.subjectFarm/Enterprise Scale Watersheden
dc.titleFarmer nurseries as a catalyst for developing sustainable land use systems in southern Africa. Part A: Nursery productivity and organizationen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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