Awareness and adoption of sustainable land management practices among smallholder maize farmers in Mpumalanga province of South Africa

ABSTRACT

Sustainable land management practices (SLMPs) are important for ensuring environmental protection, food security, poverty alleviation, and economic growth in a nation. The study employed a triple hurdle regression model to analyze the drivers influencing farmers’ awareness and adoption and level of adoption of SLMPs. The results show that farm input source, availability of farm inputs, extension frequency, water sources and marital status, are vital for increasing awareness. It is thus, recommended that actions and policies at public and private levels should be aimed at promoting and improving SLMPs.

KEYWORDS:

• Triple hurdle model
• land management
• awareness
• adoption
• agriculture

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O.S. Oduniyi

A prolific researcher in Agricultural and applied economic who use applied econometrics, spatial data, interdisciplinary approaches, and insights from behavioral economics to study issues related to agriculture, environmental and resource economics. My principal research interests are agricultural economics, applied econometrics, impact assessment, predictive analysis and machine language, spatial data analysis, natural resource economics, development economics and rural household welfare.