Risk and Sustainable Crop Intensification

Bjorn Van Campenhout
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Emmanuel Bizimungu

No 246917, 2016 Fifth International Conference, September 23-26, 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE)

Abstract: To feed a growing and increasingly urbanized population, Uganda needs to increase crop production without further exhausting available resources. Therefore, smallholders farmers are encouraged to adopt sustainable crop intensification methods such as inorganic fertilizer or hybrid seeds. However, these farmers perceive these new technologies as risky, hence adoption will depend on how well they can manage this additional risk. This article documents patterns observed in socio-economic data that suggest risk is an important barrier to sustainable crop intensification practices among Ugandan small-holder rice and potato farmers.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25
Date: 2016-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/246917/files/2 ... on%20in%20Uganda.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:aaae16:246917

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.246917

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 2016 Fifth International Conference, September 23-26, 2016, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().