Impact evaluation of conservation agriculture on smallholder farmers’ livelihood in Zambia and Tanzania

dc.contributor.advisorMungatana, Eric D.
dc.contributor.coadvisorMkomwa, Saidi
dc.contributor.emailu18216090@tuks.co.zaen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateSankhulani, Linda
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-11T08:41:05Z
dc.date.available2021-02-11T08:41:05Z
dc.date.created2021-04-30
dc.date.issued2021
dc.descriptionDissertation (MSc Agric (Agricultural Economics))--University of Pretoria, 2021.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractBased on cross-sectional data drawn from 135 treated and 68 control farmers in Tanzania, and 133 treated and 71 control farmers in Zambia, this study uses propensity score matching to test whether conservation agriculture (CA) improves smallholder farmers’ welfare, in response to the policy objective of enhancing their resilience in the face of climate change. Farmers in Tanzania assess CA as having statistically significant impacts on increasing total agricultural yield, adaptation to climate change impacts, resilience to droughts, increasing maize production, enhancing household food security, increasing number of meals per day, increasing household income, accumulation of productive assets , addressing gender disparity and social cohesion, and improving soil health . However, CA had no impact on reducing the forest area cleared per year and total agricultural costs. Farmers in Zambia assess CA as having statistically significant impacts on increasing total agricultural yield , adaptation to climate change impacts, resilience to droughts, increasing maize production, enhancing household food security, increasing number of meals per day, decreasing number of food insecure months, increasing household income, accumulation of productive assets, addressing agricultural calendar bottlenecks, increasing total agricultural costs, addressing gender disparity and social cohesion, and decreasing soil health. However, CA had no impact on reducing forest area cleared per year. Policy could use such evidence to leverage CA adoption in support of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and Africa Agenda 2063, although its potential to sequester carbon and provide ecosystem services comes into question.en_ZA
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dc.description.degreeMSc Agric (Agricultural Economics)en_ZA
dc.description.departmentAgricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Developmenten_ZA
dc.description.facultyFaculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
dc.description.sponsorshipAERC-CMAAEen_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipAfrican Conversation Tillage Networken_ZA
dc.identifier.citation* Sankhulani, LA 2021, Impact evaluation of conservation agriculture on smallholder farmers’ livelihood in Zambia and Tanzania, MSc Thesis, University of Pretoria.en_ZA
dc.identifier.otherA2021en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/78422
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectConservation agricultureen_ZA
dc.subjectImpacten_ZA
dc.subjectEvaluationen_ZA
dc.subjectSmallholder farmersen_ZA
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.titleImpact evaluation of conservation agriculture on smallholder farmers’ livelihood in Zambia and Tanzaniaen_ZA
dc.typeMini Dissertationen_ZA

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