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| Title: | Determinants of agricultural and land management practices and impacts on crop production and household income in the highlands of Tigray, Ethiopia |
| Authors: | Pender, John Gebremedhin, Berhanu |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | Journal of African Economies |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 395-450 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | land use soil management crop yields household income agricultural productivity |
| External link: | https://jae.oxfordjournals.org/content/17/3/395.full.pdf |
| Abstract: | This paper investigates the land management practices used in the highlands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, the factors influencing them and their implications for crop production and income. Several factors commonly hypothesized to have a major impact on land management and agricultural production - including population pressure, small landholdings, access to roads and irrigation and extension and credit programmes - are found to have limited direct impact on crop production and income. The paper finds, however, that profitable opportunities do exist to increase agricultural production and achieve more sustainable land management in the highlands of Tigray. These opportunities include improvement of crop production using low-external input investments and practices such as stone terraces, reduced tillage and reduced burning. The comparative advantage of people in the Tigray highlands is apparently in such low-input approaches and in alternative livelihood activities such as improved livestock management and non-farm activities. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |
