Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: Evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR multi-centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Agroforestry Centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.regionSahel
cg.creator.identifierFrank Place: 0000-0002-1216-8308
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40100-017-0072-2en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Director General's Office
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2193-7532en
cg.issue1en
cg.journalAgricultural and Food Economicsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriAGROFORESTRYen
cg.subject.ilriENVIRONMENTen
cg.subject.ilriLIVELIHOODSen
cg.subject.ilriNRMen
cg.volume5en
dc.contributor.authorBinam, Joachim N.en
dc.contributor.authorPlace, Franken
dc.contributor.authorDjalal, A.A.en
dc.contributor.authorKalinganire, A.en
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-25T06:39:42Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-25T06:39:42Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/81210
dc.titleEffects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: Evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahelen
dcterms.abstractThe present study aims at (1) assessing how the existing local formal and informal institutions affect farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) practices and, (2) evaluating the benefits of such practices on livelihoods. The propensity score with continuous treatments was used to assess the effects of a set of covariates on FMNR as well as the impacts of that practice on income, cereal production and caloric intake using data collected from 1,080 rural households in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. This study demonstrated that regeneration of trees on farms, whereby farmers play an active role in the types of trees and their densities, is important as a practice and safety-net by providing cash income, caloric intake and diet, and crops supplements throughout dryland areas of West Africa. Overall, FMNR cannot be excluded as a recommendation in any geographical region. In addition, the study concludes that the effects of institutions in fostering FMNR practices in the Sahel are mixed. In areas with well-structured formal and informal institutions, populations seem to have adopted a better collaboration attitude with the local government by developing plans for a good management and protection of natural resource including FMNR practices. However, in areas where these commissions are being assimilated to governmental institutions, the willingness to raise incentives towards a better management of natural resources is less perceived. While recognizing the benefits of trees and tree products on caloric intake and diet, there is a need to explore in much more details, the FMNR-food nexus in future researches by going beyond what was covered from this study.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2017-02-03
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBinam, J.N., Place, F., Djalal, A.A. and Kalinganire, A. 2017. Effects of local institutions on the adoption of agroforestry innovations: Evidence of farmer managed natural regeneration and its implications for rural livelihoods in the Sahel. Agricultural and Food Economics 5: 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40100-017-0072-2en
dcterms.issued2017-12
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/6043en
dcterms.subjectenvironmenten
dcterms.subjectlivelihoodsen
dcterms.subjectfood scienceen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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