relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/10589/
title: Stimulating smallholder investment in sustainable land management: Overcoming market, policy and institutional challenges
creator: Shiferaw, B
creator: Okello, J
subject: Smallholder Farmers
subject: Smallholder Agriculture
description: The degradation of natural resources raises a variety of issues related to rural livelihoods, poverty,  distribution of income and inter-generational equity. Land degradation also deprives smallholders  and particularly the poor of a key resource and diminishes capacity to undertake critical  investments, possibly leading to depletion of buffer stocks and increased vulnerability. These  problems are most pronounced in areas with widespread poverty and fragile ecosystems such as  arid, semi-arid and highland regions (Pender and Hazell, 2000; Shiferaw and Bantilan, 2004). In  such areas sustainable intensification of agriculture through land conservation and management is  a critical policy challenge...
publisher: Routledge
contributor: Köhlin, G
contributor: Bluffstone, R
date: 2011
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/10589/1/Challenges%20of%20Adoption%20and%20Adaptive%20Management.pdf
identifier:   Shiferaw, B and Okello, J  (2011) Stimulating smallholder investment in sustainable land management: Overcoming market, policy and institutional challenges.   In:  . Agricultural Investment and Productivity: Building Sustainability in East Africa.   Routledge.  ISBN 9781138103849    (Submitted)