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dc.contributor.authorAkinola, Adebayo A.
dc.contributor.authorAbdoulaye, Tahirou
dc.contributor.authorValbuena, Diego
dc.contributor.authorErenstein, Olaf
dc.contributor.authorHaileslasie, A.
dc.contributor.authorGermaine, I.
dc.contributor.authorShehu, M.
dc.contributor.authorAyedun, B.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:04:44Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:04:44Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationAkinola, A., Abdoulaye, T., Valbuena, D., Erenstein, O., Haileslasie, A., Germaine, I., ... & Ayedun, B. (2015). Determinants of crop residue use along an intensification gradient in West Africa’s savannah zones. Tropicultura, 396-410.
dc.identifier.issn0771-3312
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/1492
dc.descriptionOpen Access Journal
dc.description.abstractThe study compares and contrasts crop residue uses in 3 case study sites along an agricultural intensification gradient in the Sahel-Sudano zone of Niger and Nigeria. It draws on data collected from 24 vii/ages involving 480 households and employs a Tobit model to analyse the determinants of crop residue uses for cereals and legumes. The study uses an innovative classification of crop residue uses as an internal and external service to the farming system. Survey results indicate that internal service as livestock feed constituted the largest share across sites and crop types. Sale of crop residues is the largest external use identified for legumes. The study found that the internal use of cereal crop residue decreases along an intensification gradient. However, legume biomass redistribution within the system (internal service) did not follow a clear intensification gradient. The result of Tobit analyses indicates internal service use was positively influenced by livestock ownership (p<O.Ol), age (p<O.l), education (p<O.Ol), training by extension agent on crop-livestock interaction (p<0.05) and crop residue management (p<O.Ol). However, as household size (p<O.Ol) increased the· probability of enhancing internal services to agricultural systems declined. This suggests that larger households with more pressing demands for cash tend to sell their crop residues at the expense of more sustainable uses such as mulching. The overall pressure on crop residue use was also especially high in the more intensive system of the Kano region. Therefore, given the importance of crop residue for livestock feed and soil cover in these fragile savannah system and the high pressure for competing uses of crop residues, there is need to develop and promote potential substitute to ensure sustainability.
dc.description.sponsorshipCGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme
dc.format.extent396-410
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectCrop Residue
dc.subjectAgricultural Products
dc.subjectTobit Model
dc.subjectBiomass Use
dc.subjectSoil Amendment
dc.subjectIntensification Gradient
dc.titleDeterminants of crop residue use along an intensification gradient in West Africa's Savannah zones
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.crpGrain Legumes
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
cg.contributor.affiliationObafemi Awolowo University
cg.contributor.affiliationBayero University
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryNiger
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.identifier.urlhttp://www.tropicultura.org/text/v34n4/396.pdf
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectGrain Legumes
cg.journalTropicultura
cg.howpublishedFormally Published
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
local.dspaceid80969
cg.targetaudienceScientists


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