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creators_name: Shiferaw, B
creators_name: Okello, J
icrisatcreators_name: Shiferaw, B
affiliation: ICRISAT (Nairobi)
country: Kenya
title: Stimulating smallholder investment in sustainable land management: Overcoming market, policy and institutional challenges
ispublished: submitted
subjects: GL1
subjects: SM1
full_text_status: public
keywords: Smallholder Investments, Sustainable Land Management, Land degradation
abstract: 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...
date: 2011
date_type: published
publisher: Routledge
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 9781138103849
book_title: . Agricultural Investment and Productivity: Building Sustainability in East Africa
editors_name: Köhlin, G
editors_name: Bluffstone, R
citation:   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)  
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10589/1/Challenges%20of%20Adoption%20and%20Adaptive%20Management.pdf