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    Measuring household legume cultivation intensity in sub-Saharan Africa

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    Date
    2021
    Author
    Barnes, A.P.
    Muoni, T.
    Öborn, I.
    Bergkvist, G.
    Nziguheba, G.
    Watson, C.
    Vanlauwe, B.
    Duncan, A.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Review Status
    Peer Review
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    Abstract/Description
    Legumes form part of an ecological-based solution to intensification in areas with limited access to external inputs. Despite a number of decades of intervention, uptake of legumes has been slow within smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa. We explore the drivers behind the adoption of legumes by developing an indicator of household legume cultivation (HLC) from a bespoke survey of small-scale farm households in Kenya and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A beta regression framework identifies the range of intensities across sites and farms, indicating a limited influence of agro-ecological zones and formal institutions on uptake. Age, income and gender have positive but very marginal effects. Intensive legume cultivations were less driven by commercial growth objectives or access to market oppourtunities indicating lack of legume markets to incentivize production. There was little interest in expanding farm area, which reflects the lack of assets available to these farmers and leads to the use of legumes for providing home nutrition, or supporting farm fertility and livestock feed. Further development of this HLC metric would be enabled by consistent data gathering across regions, or at least equally detailed studies of legume uptake.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2021.1910418
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7215
    IITA Authors ORCID
    Generose Nziguhebahttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4227-2242
    bernard vanlauwehttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6016-6027
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2021.1910418
    Research Themes
    Natural Resource Management
    IITA Subjects
    Agronomy; Grain Legumes; Plant Breeding; Plant Production
    Agrovoc Terms
    Legumes; Intensification; Animal Feeding; Mixed Farming; Livestock
    Regions
    Africa; Africa South of Sahara
    Countries
    Democratic Republic of the Congo; Kenya
    Hubs
    Eastern Africa Hub
    Journals
    International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability
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