Stimulating smallholder investment in sustainable land management: Overcoming market, policy and institutional challenges

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)

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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...

Item Type: Book Section
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Uncontrolled Keywords: Smallholder Investments, Sustainable Land Management, Land degradation
Subjects: Others > Smallholder Farmers
Others > Smallholder Agriculture
Depositing User: Mr Ramesh K
Date Deposited: 18 Apr 2018 04:55
Last Modified: 18 Apr 2018 04:55
URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/10589
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