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Sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) that lead to an increase in productivity are central to the acceleration of economic growth; this will alleviate poverty and help to overcome the recurrent food shortages that affect millions of households in Africa. However, the adoption rates of SAPs re...


Hailemariam TKassie, MenaleShiferaw, Bekele[On the joint estimation of multiple adoption decisions: the case of sustainable agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia]On the joint estimation of multiple adoption decisions: the case of sustainable agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia

The paper contributes to an understanding of the determinants of food security with a bias on the link between gender of household head and food security using detailed farm household and plot level survey data from 30 divisions in rural Kenya. Both parametric and non-parametric econometric techn...


Kassie, MenaleNdiritu SWShiferaw, Bekele[Determinants of Food Security in Kenya, a Gender Perspective]Determinants of Food Security in Kenya, a Gender Perspective

Crop residue use for soil mulch and animal feed are the two major competing purposes and the basic source of fundamental challenge in conservation agriculture (CA) where residue retention on farm plots is one of the three CA principles. Using survey data from Kenya and applying bivariate ordered ...


Jaleta, MotiKassie, MenaleShiferaw, Bekele[Tradeoffs in Crop Residue Utilization in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems and Implications for Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management]Tradeoffs in Crop Residue Utilization in Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems and Implications for Conservation Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management

Soil fertility depletion is considered one of the main biophysical limiting factors for increasing per capita food production for smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. The adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs), as a way to tackle this challenge, has become an im...


Kassie, MenaleJaleta, MotiShiferaw, BekeleMmbando, F.Mekuria M[Interdependence in Farmer Technology Adoption Decisions in Smallholder Systems: Joint Estimation of Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Rural Tanzania]Interdependence in Farmer Technology Adoption Decisions in Smallholder Systems: Joint Estimation of Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Rural Tanzania

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