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    Smallholder farmers’ preferences for sustainable intensification attributes in maize production: evidence from Ghana

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    Date
    2022-04
    Author
    Kotu, B.H.
    Oyinbo, O.
    Hoeschle-Zeledon, I.
    Rahman, N.A.
    Kizito, F.
    Boyubie, B.
    Type
    Journal Article
    Review Status
    Peer Review
    Target Audience
    Scientists
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    While sustainable intensification has been aggressively promoted as an agricultural development strategy among smallholder farmers since the beginning of the last decade, there is a dearth of evidence on whether farmers are interested in practicing it and how much value they put to its different components. This study aims at analyzing farmers’ preferences for maize production technologies within the lens of sustainable intensification. Employing a discrete choice experiment to generate over 12,500 observations from a sample of about 700 maize-producing households in northern Ghana, we analyze farmers’ preferences with respect to five domains of sustainable intensification including productivity, economic, human, environmental, and social conditions. We find that farmers are favorably disposed to maize-based cropping systems that align with the domains of sustainable intensification over their current cropping practices. While farmers value all the sustainable intensification attributes considered in the study, we observe substantial heterogeneities among them in the pooled sample and in the sub-samples between regions and gender categories. The findings suggest that sustainable intensification is not just a fad within the academic and research circles but something farmers are interested in and that development actions are more likely to succeed when they consider preference heterogeneities among farmers and adapt to local conditions. The findings can be used to set an evaluation criterion in designing and testing technologies (or a mix of technologies) for sustainable maize production among smallholder farmers in northern Ghana as well as similar socio-cultural and agroecological settings, supporting national and regional level efforts for R&D prioritization.
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105789
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    https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7392
    IITA Authors ORCID
    Bekele Hundie Kotuhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5788-6461
    Irmgard Hoeschle-Zeledonhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2530-6554
    Nurudeen Abdul Rahmanhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4073-5610
    Fred Kizitohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7488-2582
    Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
    https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105789
    Research Themes
    Natural Resource Management; Plant Production and Health; Social Science and Agribusiness
    IITA Subjects
    Agronomy; Farming Systems; Maize; Natural Resource Management
    Agrovoc Terms
    Farming Systems; Intensification; Sustainable Intensification; Maize; Smallholders
    Regions
    Africa; West Africa
    Countries
    Ghana
    Hubs
    Headquarters and Western Africa Hub
    Journals
    World Development
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