McNair, W. E.2016-04-192016-04-192013MS thesis. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee.6809_McNairThesis_1.pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/70137In 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.application/pdfen-USIn CopyrightSmall-scale farmingConservation agricultureSustainable agricultureEconomic modeling and analysisEconomic impactsFarm/Enterprise ScaleAssessing the influence of conservation agriculture on household wellbeing and Maize Marketing in Tete and Manica, MozambiqueThesisCopyright 2012 by William Edward McNair. All rights reserved.