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Adoption of Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Southern Ethiopia: monograph

DOI
https://doi.org/10.36074/aosawcpise-monograph.2022
Опубліковано
2022-10-13

Анотація

Soil erosion must be reduced to a tolerable level to control soil fertility decline and sustainable agricultural development. Different SWC works have been done in many parts of Ethiopia. Still, the farmers' perception of soil erosion and their responses to soil and water conservation practices need investigation. Often contact between planners and stakeholders used to be minimal. The failure of conservation programs partly emerges from the fact that planners and implementing agencies ignore or fail to consider the socio-economic factors as critical determinants of the success or failure of conservation programs. Therefore, this study's objective was to identify what factors affect the adoption of physical soil and water conservation practices and examine farmers' perceptions of soil and water conservation practices. Both primary and secondary data were collected for this purpose. The primary data were collected from 108 proportionately and randomly selected sample households from 5 Kebeles in Kindo Koysha Woreda, while secondary data were from group discussions of different sources. A multinomial logit model was applied to identify the socio-demographic, Economic, Institutional, Psychological, and Physical factors that affect Soil and Water Conservation Practices' adoption. This study indicated that farmers' adoption of the Soil and Water Conservation decision was influenced more by socio-demographic, economic, institutional, and physical factors. The household head age, education levels, family size, and dependency ratio influenced socio-demographic factors; economic factors influenced farm size and household income. The slope category of the farm was of physical factor that influenced the adoption of soil water conservation practices. Of these significantly influenced variables, the dependency ratio was negatively affected, while the rest of the factors positively influenced the adoption of SWC practices. Based on the obtained result, the following recommendations were made: There should be a clear understanding of the socio-economic conditions of a given locality to undertake SWC activity; a closer relationship will need to be developed between land-use planners and soil conservationists; strengthening resettlement in unused areas; the way of farming culture has to be investigated before planning to undertake conservation activity of a given community; To implement SWC, exploring existing local resource and availability of farmland is vital because most farmers who have stones availability in their locality were replayed that they choose stone bunds to protect their farm.

Institutional email ID drsenapathy@wsu.edu.et 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PREFACE
FOREWORD
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
LIST OF TABLES
APPENDICES
LIST OF FIGURES
ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
1.2 Statement of Problem
1.3 Objective of the Study
   1.3.1 General Objective
   1.3.2 The Specific Objectives of the study
1.4 Research Question
1.5 Significance of the Study
1.6 Scope and Limitation of the Study
1.7 Organization of the Thesis

2. REVIEW OF PERTINENT LITERATURE
2.1 Concept of Land Degradation
2.2 Problems of Land Degradation
2.3 Consequences of Land Degradation
2.4 Soil Conservation Methods
2.5 Soil and Water Conservation efforts
2.6 Attributes of Innovations
2.7 Adopters' Personal Characteristics
2.8 Adoption and Agricultural Conservation Practices
2.9 Approaches and Techniques of Analysis of Soil Conservation Studies
2.10 Empirical Studies on the Determinants of Soil Conservation
2.11 Conceptual Framework of the Study

3. METHODOLOGY
3.1 Description of the Study Area
   3.1.1 Description of Wolaita Zone
   3.1.2 Description of Kindo Koysha Woreda
      3.1.2.1 Population
   3.1.3 Climatic and Geo-Topographical Nature of the Area
   3.1.4 Crop production
   3.1.5 Soil and Water Conservation Practices in Kindo Koysha Woreda
3.2. Research Design
   3.2.1 Type and Sources of Data
   3.2.2 Sampling Procedure
   3.2.3 Methods of Data Collection and Sampling Techniques
3.3 Analyses of Data
   3.3.1 Descriptive Statistics
   3.3.2 Specification of Model
   3.3.3 The Dependent Variable of the Study
   3.3.4 The Independent Variables of the Study
   3.3.5 Hypothesized Variables

4. DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
4.1. Descriptive Analysis of the study
   4.1.1 Socio-Demographic Factors concerning Adoption of SWC practices
      4.1.1.1 Age
      4.1.1.2. Sex of the Household
      4.1.1.3 Educational Level of household
      4.1.1.4 Social Position in the Kebele (SOCPOSN)
      4.1.1.5 Family Size (FAMSIZ)
      4.1.1.6 Dependency Ratio
   4.1.2 Economic Factors about the adoption of soil and water conservation practices
      4.1.2.1 Area of farmland (Farm Size)
      4.1.2.2 Livestock holding
      4.1.2.3 Household income
   4.1.3 Psychological factorss
      4.1.3.1.Perception of farmers on Soil and Water Conservation Practices(PERCP)
      4.1.3.2 Attitude of the farmer (FAMERATID)
   4.1.4 Institutional factors- Adoption soil and water conservation practices
      4.1.4.1. Extension Service (EXTSRS)
      4.1.4.2 Security of tenure (SECTEN)
      4.1.4.3 Assistance in soil conservation practices (ASSCOSOIL)
      4.1.4.4 Past awareness about technology (TECHAWARE)
   4.1.5 Physical factors concerning the adoption of soil and water conservation practices
      4.1.5.1 Slope category of the farm
4.2 Physical Soil and Water Conservation practices adopted by farmers in the study area
4.3 Perception of farmers on Soil and Water Conservation practices
4.4 Results of the Econometric Model
   4.4.1 Definition of Variables used in Multinomial Logistic Regression Model
   4.4.2 Variance Inflation Factor for Continues Variables
   4.4.3 Contingency Coefficient for Dummy/Categorical Variable
   4.4.4 Model Result
4.5 Summary of Qualitative Analysis

5.CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1. Conclusion
5.2. Recommendations

6. REFERENCES
7. APPENDICES
    I: Household Survey with Interview Schedule
    II: Checklist for Key Informants Interview
    III:Tropical Livestock Unit equivalencies for different domestic animals
8. ETHIOPIA - KEY TECHNICAL TERMS
9. GLOSSARY
10. SUBJECT INDEX

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Year of publication: 2022
Language: English
Authors: Bassa A., Senapathy M.
Translation: No
Translator: -

Type: E-book
Number of pages: 172
Format: PDF (7,9 MB)
ISBN: 979-8-88796-792-9
UDC: -

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